Maartje Janse is associate professor at the Institute for History.

Europe’s security suddenly looks uncertain now President Trump has started negotiations with Putin. What does this mean for the Netherlands? What do we need to do?

Bart Verheijen is an Assistant Professor in Colonial and Global history, with a main research interest in the political culture and the development of national identities in the early nineteenth century in Europe and The Dutch Indies. He completed his PhD on Napoleonic history in 2017 and since then…

Tom Buitelaar is an Assistant Professor in the War, Peace & Justice program of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.

As a sociolinguist, I am interested in how people use language in daily situations to achieve a variety of goals. As people do this, two things become immediately obvious. First, people routinely mean more than their words mean, so we always need to read between the lines of each other's (spoken or…

Jiyan Ilbrink is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies.

Clare Fenwick is Ph.D. candidate in the project SOLID (ILS 2.0) at the Department of Economics, Leiden University.

Antonella Maiello is an Assistant Professor of Governance of Sustainability at the Institute of Public Administration, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University (The Hague – Campus). Her research concerns processes, practices, and experiments of (social and economic) change in different…

In September 2013 I moved to Leiden from the UK to take up the position of Assistant Professor covering politics and international relations on the BA Russian Studies and International Studies programmes and the MA Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Johan Christensen's research focuses on the role of experts and expertise in public policy-making, both at the national and European levels.

In her dissertation, political scientist Alessia Aspide explores how public attitudes toward fiscal policy are formed. Her key finding: fiscal preferences are not shaped in a vacuum, but are deeply embedded in institutional, political, and societal contexts.

Our constitutional democracy is under pressure. Politicians are increasingly bending rules and institutions to their will, often in small steps. PhD candidate Jorieke Manenschijn warns that through a combination of subtle changes we can cross a line without realising it.

Lecture

Anna Notsu is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of the Leiden University.

Tin Kapetanovic is a dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title: 'The Transnational Expansion of Terrorist Groups: A study into the manifestation of terrorist groups in foreign territories using a transplantation approach'.

Toon Kerkhoff is Associate Professor of Public Administration. His work is characterised by a historical approach to core questions in public administration and the themes of corruption, integrity, public value(s) and public sector and civil service reform. He currently serves as educational director…

Yih-Jye Hwang (PhD, Aberystwyth) is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University. His research focuses on culture and identity politics in East Asia, East Asian approaches to human security, China’s strategic and just war thinking, post-Western IR, post-structuralism, and theories…

Madeleine O. Hosli is Professor of International Relations at Leiden University (PhD 1992). Her main research interests are in international political economy, international organisations and European integration.

After almost a year of working from home during this Covid pandemic, Scientific Director Paul Nieuwenburg conveys how the Institute of Political Science is sailing through waves and lockdowns: from transformation to bi location to 'non location', from teaching on the beach to teaching to 'black cubes'…

I specialize in the field of modern Middle East studies, concentrating on the region's politics and international relations (history and theory), foreign policy analysis, and diplomatic history. As a historian of international relations I have developed special research interests in the Arab-Israeli…

Debate

Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lecturer Sara Polak has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate this.

Contrary to what one might expect, societal actors influence China’s foreign policy. PhD candidate Sabine Mokry investigated how Chinese academics and think tanks impact the authoritarian leadership’s views on what constitutes the country’s national interest in the international arena. On 14 November…

On 10 December 2024, the European Parliament played host to an insightful presentation of ‘Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy, and the Future of the EU’, the new book by Tom Theuns, Assistant Professor at Leiden University. Hosted by MEP Thijs Reuten (PvdA/S&D) and his team, the event…

In a new Transforming Society article, Salvador Santino Regilme, Associate Professor and Chair of the International Relations Program at Leiden University, critiques the Trump administration’s US–China tariff war as a covert instrument of domestic class warfare.

Geert Wilders and his PVV party have won the 2023 elections. What was the deciding factor for this victory?

Håvar Solheim is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for History.