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FGGA in 2024: This was the year of our faculty
2024 was a remarkable and eventful year for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. In this year overview, we look back month by month at the key events and developments.
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PhD training Case Study and Comparative Methods
Research
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Qualitative Empirical Research Methods in Law
Research
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Working in the Netherlands for non-EU
Career and apply for jobs
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Information and Q&A session International Dispute Settlement and Arbitration 11 December
Study information
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Spionnen op de Noordzee
Debate
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Conversation on Islam in Today’s Indonesian Politics
Roundtable
- Evening Lecture Series: Practitioners in War
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The Future of Nuclear Deterrence in Europe
Panel discussion
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Highlights of 2025 at Leiden Law School
2025 was a year to remember at our faculty. We celebrated our 450th anniversary, launched new degree programmes and welcomed many inspiring speakers, yet we also felt the weight of budget constraints. Our year in a nutshell:
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…
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Experts on the war in Ukraine, two years later: ‘Europe learned a lot from the war, help each other and don’t give up’
The one-day symposium ‘War in Europe: the impact of Russian aggression in Ukraine two years on’ on 23 February 2024
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Al Qaeda in de Islamitische Maghreb ontrafeld: de brede blik ontbrak
Sergei Boeke has once again proven that there are more roads than one that lead to Rome with his PhD research into al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. It is both the core point of his conclusions as well as the leitmotiv for his approach. Boeke’s dissertation is comprised of five academic articles that…
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Sanneke Kuipers appointed professor of Crisis Governance: 'Crises arise from very mundane causes'
The Executive Board appointed Sanneke Kuipers as full professor effective January 1, 2022. Her chair is Crisis Governance. She combines this chair with her position as education director of ISGA, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. A conversation about working 24/7 in crisis management, her…
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CML talents receive Stans Award 2024
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best student thesis, best PhD paper and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominated students and colleagues and this year’s jury Prof.dr.ing. Jan Willem Erisman and Prof.dr.ir Willie Peijnenburg made the final decision.
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Speak up where it will help, not just at the coffee machine
For five years, Pauline Hutten put her heart and soul into the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), but a short time ago, she handed over the baton to Sanneke Kuipers, who is now Chair. We met up with them both for a joint interview about the importance of particip…
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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Timo Kos: ‘We want our buildings to be as open and safe as possible’
Speaking for the Executive Board, Timo Kos reflects on the university’s security policy and what lies ahead. ‘We want to keep our buildings open, but we also need to be able to guarantee the safety of everyone there. It’s a real balancing act.’
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbers
On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt in Emerging Markets' in Leiden’s Academy Building. Her research sheds light on the hidden world of sovereign debt politics, revealing how governments…
- Public Ethics Talks
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The Power of Empathy in International Development Work: Beyond Policies and Numbers
Lecture
- Book Talk by Roberto E. Barrios
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The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan
Lecture
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Olaf van VlietFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
o.p.van.vliet@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278551
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Stephen HarrisFaculty of Humanities
s.e.harris@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278983
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
g.p.scott-smith@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009503
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271611
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272179
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
j.k.zangenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272579
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Study evening: Technology and Police training: Forging the next generation of policing professionals?
Lecture
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Panel discussion: Green Colonialism
Debate
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Liveblog: Leiden University strikes against government cuts
Staff from Leiden University are starting the Dutch universities’ staggered strike against the government cuts on 10 March. Follow the strike in this liveblog.
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Philosopher of law Ali Kösedag: Hague heart, Leiden mind
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this fourth instalment: alumnus and philosopher of law Ali Kösedag (1992): ‘Philosophising about equality before the law in the Netherlands at an early-morning…
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Leader Similarity and International Sanctions
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa
Lecture
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LUCIR book lecture: Do We Need a Hegemon to Maintain International Order?
Lecture
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3 years war in Ukraine
Symposium
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Book presentation: 'Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism'
Book presentation
- Fireside Peace Chats: The Zainichi Korean community, the division, and peace movement
- Doing Fieldwork with the Police: Methodological and Ethical Considerations
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Understanding EUROTYPES: How Cultural Perceptions Shape Discourse, Policy, and Public Opinion in the European Union
Lecture
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A critical look at NATO, Europe, and nuclear strategy
Lecture
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Book Talk: Israeli-Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War: The Geopolitics of Denying the Armenian Genocide
Lecture, Book Talk
- Effective Public Risk Communication: Raising Awareness without Causing undue Fear
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Science, Sabotage and Subversion: How covert activity shapes the new international system
Lecture
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Radicalism and Radicalization: Where to Draw the Line?
Lecture
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Book Launch | EU External Relations Law: Research Meets Practice
Book Launch
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Just Peace Dialogue: Peace in Europe
Just Peace Festival
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.