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‘Liberal American foreign policy was always entangled with illiberal interests’ 25 July 2022
American foreign policy in the period after the Second World War is often characterised as liberal. This is, however, not the full picture, argues uni...
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NIAS grant for research on ‘War on Drugs’ 11 July 2022
His article on ‘the War on Drugs’ in Colombia and the Philippines has been in the top five most downloaded articles of Oxford University Press for som...
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Salvador Santino Regilme awarded fellowship at NIAS 25 May 2022
Salvador Santino Regilme has been selected for a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Amsterdam. From September 2022, ...
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch 11 April 2022
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center...
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Call for Panels and Papers: "Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional and International Perspectives" 16 March 2022
The Seventh European Congress on World and Global History, entitled "Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional, and International Pers...
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A quick call about the war in Ukraine: ‘Did Putin underestimate his opponent?’ 08 March 2022
The war in Ukraine has lasted almost two weeks now. What does Putin expect to achieve with his invasion and how big is the chance that the West will g...
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A quick call about Ukraine: 'Putin wants to be taken seriously' 15 February 2022
Suddenly there they were, the Russian soldiers near the border of Ukraine. Since then, reports of tensions between Russia on the one hand and the Unit...
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Do you buy your partner chocolates and roses? Fascination for American holidays explained 14 February 2022
Buying chocolates as a sign of love, getting the best deals on Black Friday and putting on a spooky costume for Halloween. In recent years, these holi...
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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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Call for Papers: Book Diplomacy conference 29 September 2021
On 28 and 29 April 2022 the conference ''Book Diplomacy’ in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' takes place at Leiden University. T...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul 06 September 2021
Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim 15 April 2021
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work in an integrated,...
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Succesful online conference: Imperial Artefacts 11 March 2021
On January 28 and 29, 2021 the conference ‘Imperial Artefacts: History, Law and the Looting of Cultural Property’ took place online. This first of its...
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Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property 10 June 2020
On 28 and 29 January 2021 the conference 'Imperial Artefacts: History, Law and the Looting of Cultural Property' takes place at Leiden University. Key...
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Maxine David: ‘Have realistic expectations of what you can do in these difficult times’ 08 June 2020
Maxine David is a lecturer in European Politics in the Institute for History and is a busy bee when it comes to teaching. When countries started locki...