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New interdisciplinary research centre 'ReCNTR' to reflect on multimodal practice 08 March 2022
Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science), Julian Ross (Center for the Arts in Society) and Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropo...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science 07 March 2022
What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
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Can Russia be stopped? 14 February 2022
Tensions are rising between Russia and the West. Can an invasion of Ukraine and an international war be avoided? Political scientist and Russia expert...
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Social Science Matters: The surveillance society 02 February 2022
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characteri...
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What drives anti-immigrant sentiment among youths in Ecuador? 31 January 2022
Four researchers from Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science have been awarded a grant to jointly investigate attitudes towards Venezuelan...
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New professor calls for more research with a ‘global lens’ 31 January 2022
Jan Aart Scholte is the first professor on the new Leiden interdisciplinary programme, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. He researches...
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For long, government support for veterans was lacking 24 January 2022
For long, the government showed little empathy for military veterans with physical or psychological scars. This is what PhD research by Theo van den D...
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’ 06 January 2022
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minorit...
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‘The Afghan state has collapsed, but the democratic gains of the past 20 years are not lost’ 13 December 2021
The international conference ‘Lessons from Afghanistan’ touched on many serious issues and raised several reasons for concern. But it also ended on a ...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 27 October 2021
In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed b...
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Leïla Gfeller and Tobias van Brandwijk win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2021 25 October 2021
2021, again, sees a rich harvest of bachelor theses in Political Science. Students have been tackling fascinating subjects—ranging from European solid...
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Human Rights and Climate Change: Call for Abstracts 14 October 2021
On 27-28 January 2022, Leiden University’s interdisciplinary seed grant programme ‘Beyond Anthropocentric Interests and Values? Human Rights and Clima...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2021: the nominees 30 September 2021
The thesis is the crown on the work of our bachelor students. As authors, they show their knowledge of the subject that they have chosen. They demonst...
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Lessons from Afghanistan: call for papers and policy think pieces 27 September 2021
LUCIR (Leiden University’s Centre for International Relations), in cooperation with ISGA (Institute of Security and Global Affairs) and GTGC (Global T...