377 search results for “foreign affairs” in the Staff website
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Why North Korea and Southern Africa are dependent on each other
North Korea may seem like an isolated country but it has strong ties with African regimes. This alliance, which trades in arms despite international sanctions, is increasingly operating out of the liberal world order’s sight, PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog warns.
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Asia Academy #05: Sanctioning North-Korea
Lecture
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Op weg naar de NAVO top
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
Lecture, Panel Discussion
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Closing the Gap 2023 | Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives
Conference
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Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers - Symposium & Workshop
Symposium & Workshop
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Putin’s War on Ukraine: Implications and Consequences
Debate, Roundtable
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Why the Old Cold War Ended, a New Russia-West Cold War Developed, and the Russia-Ukraine Hot War began
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Eager enlargers, reluctant reformers? Central and Eastern European perspectives on EU’s institutional reform
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
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The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East, with James Shires
Lecture
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Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy
Lecture
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A Global South Divided: Rising Powers in International Environmental Politics
Lecture, China Seminar
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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Activities
On this page you will find an overview of the activities organised by the Leiden Research Support Network.
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€10.6 million for innovative toolboxes to tackle brain cancer
Researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam (Uva) and Leiden together with the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute have received a €10,6 million ERC Synergy Grant to develop innovative therapeutic approaches to target glioblastoma. This is a deadly primary brain tumour for which no curing…
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Office for International Education and internationalisation
Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…
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‘Science is international so our faculty should be too’
‘Our faculty is a very international community. And that is something everybody really benefit from,’ says Yun Tian. As the officer internationalisation, she is the bridge between international students and staff, the faculty and universities abroad. ‘Science goes beyond countries and carries no nationality.…
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: 'Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’
It poured down when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, three months before 9/11. The now 46-year-old American fought in Iraq, did research in Afghanistan and stands in Leiden today, defending his dissertation on…
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Graduation MIRD Class of 2022: Students in the spotlight
On Monday, 4 July 2022, the graduation of the two-year Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) programme was commemorated in the iconic Academy Building in Leiden. Students and guests were welcomed by the Program Director, Professor Madeleine Hosli.
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Netherlands and Japan united by a tradition of mutual curiosity
A delegation from Leiden University visited various universities in Japan at the end of March. The strong ties between the Netherlands and Japan are still based on a long tradition of knowledge exchange.
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Historical continuity helped form Dutch and Belgian identities
Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different approaches of the two governments towards the coronavirus crisis, for example, can be explained from the history of both countries since the Middle Ages. Historians…
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How to address sensitive subjects in class?
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
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Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran
Lecture
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EU’s engagement in the Arctic
Lecture, Seminar
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Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace and How to Restore It
Lecture
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Getting on Famously: The Netherlands and the Shah of Iran
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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LGBTIQ rights in Europe: the role of the European Parliament
Lecture, Seminar
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Italy From Facism to Democracy. And Back?
Lecture, Seminar
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Structures of Power: US Infrastructure Building in the Circum-Caribbean During the Bad Neighbor Era
Lecture, RIAS-Sciences Po Seminar Series on Modern North American History
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty
We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and students are able to return to Campus. Continue reading to find out what the rest of the year has been like.
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony
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Hybrid Symposium 'Pageantry, Ritual and Popular Media: Netherlandish Practices of Public Diplomacy in 16th- and 17th-Europe’
Conference
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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(CANCELLED) The UK, the Netherlands, and Ukraine. How strong bilateral relations are crucial for multilateral diplomacy
Lecture, Seminar
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork
Lecture
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Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Lecture
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Use of Chemical Weapons – from Attribution to Accountability
Conference, Seminar
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Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Lecture
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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We need to talk about methods. The methodological potential of Area Studies within the Humanities
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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International alumnus Wandile Madalane tells us why going to Leiden has been his best decision in life
Alumnus Wandile Madalane tells us how his time in Leiden has made it easier for him to engage with renowned figures and how he does NOT miss the rain.