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‘I like that students trust us and share their stories with us’ 18 April 2024The student navigator ‘Find your way’ helps students find their way around the university. Student advisers can also be found on the roadmap. JanPiete...
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What’s Your Story?: diversiteit in een kaartspel 18 April 2024The JEDI Fund supports projects that promote diversity and inclusivity within the university. One of these projects is the card game called ‘What’s Yo...
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MIRD students explore international organisations in Geneva 10 April 2024From 25 to 27 March, second-year students of the Advanced MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) took part in the programme's annual visi...
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‘I am not conscious about what I spend my money on’ 10 April 2024How do you make sure you have enough money every month? Do you receive a basic grant, have a part-time job or do you borrow for your studies? Below, a...
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KNAW grant awarded for ‘People-centered constitutional law’ research project 09 April 2024Recently, Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security...
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Students advice security experts: 'Fantastic combination of research and practice' 08 April 2024Presenting a well-thought-out idea to Schiphol experts, a former ambassador or a security expert. For the third-year Security Studies bachelor student...
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The internet has many bosses. It’s chaotic but it works 08 April 2024Governing the internet is rather chaotic, says Professor Jan Aart Scholte. ‘But it works.’ Not only do national and local governments have a say but a...
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Democracy under pressure worldwide: 'Türkiye is a textbook example of how countries become autocracies' 05 April 2024What is the state of democracy in developing and transition countries in 2024? Terrible, according to the BTI Transformation Index: only 63 out of 137...
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Coffee with Gert Renkema: ‘We are the fastest growing faculty at Leiden University’ 02 April 2024Twice a year, Gert Renkema, Head of Financial and Economic Affairs at FGGA, offers us an insight into all that is going on around FGGA's finances. Wit...
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: ‘Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’ 27 March 2024It was pouring rain when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, t...
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The lessons we can learn from leaders of colour 26 March 2024With diversity and inclusion, organisations too often focus only on cosmetic change. ‘Interview bias training alone is not enough’, says Distinguished...
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‘I think an internship is the best way to prepare yourself for a professional life’ 26 March 2024Luis from Germany is a third-year bachelor’s student Security Studies. During his elective space, he did an internship at the German Ministery of Labo...
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‘Maybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the university’ 25 March 2024This year, in a three-part symposium series, we are exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be promoted at the university. In the second ses...
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The Dutch were masters of forgeries and fake news in the seventeenth century 22 March 2024A book with a fake printer, a pamphlet with a treaty that does not exist and an execution print with a supportive crowd: just some examples of forgeri...
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Annetje Ottow and Seda Gürkan visit the College of Europe in Bruges 22 March 2024Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University’s Executive Board, and Seda Gürkan, Assistant Professor in European Approaches to Security, Diplomacy an...