In the media
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BNR De Wereld: How dangerous is North Korea?27 October 2017What is the relationship between America and North Korea? How big are the chances that a war will break out? How important are the personalities of Tr...
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Two captains on a single ship24 October 2017Caspar van den Berg was asked by Dutch news programme EditieNL for a reaction to the new coalition agreement and the ministerial team. Some ministries...
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Alastair Reed in Eurojust News23 October 2017In the 15th issue of Eurojust News Alastair Reed, Acting Director of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism gave an interview about counter-te...
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Alastair Reed about the approach of Syrians23 October 2017The fall of the IS caliphate is coming closer. At the same time, the AIVD warned for an increase in the return of especially the hardened warriors. Ho...
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Paul Abels on the ‘dragnet law’10 October 2017There was a lot of fuss last week about the ‘dragnet law’, in which intelligence services are now authorised to conduct large-scale tapping of cable c...
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Terrorism is more than physical threat alone27 September 2017Comparing terrorist attacks with falling off a step ladder is absurd, writes Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn in NRC Handelsblad on 27 September 2017.
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King’s Speech by an outgoing cabinet: political swansong?19 September 2017The King’s Speech delivered by King Willem-Alexander on the third Tuesday of September in 2017 will be written by an outgoing cabinet. What effect wil...
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Politics and International Relations at Leiden score highly in THE World University Rankings12 September 2017Leiden University continues to do well in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. For the subject area Politics and International Relati...
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Tjeenk Willink’s uncomfortable truth07 September 2017Frits van der Meer and Caspar van den Berg wrote an article for the Montesquieu Institute, triggered by the short essay Herman Tjeenk Willink wrote as...
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The local lobbying groups and their impact on the Dutch municipality elections05 July 2017On 21 March 2018, the Dutch people will vote for local their municipality board. In preparation for these elections, the local lobbying groups are mor...
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How do Facebook and Google prevent terrorism?21 June 2017Facebook and Google are being pressured more and more to prevent terrorists from accessing and using their platform. Right now, they are developing so...
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Engie Algae in Singapore19 June 2017Together with 4 other students and ENGIE, Hein Laterveer, a Public Administration student, won the Rotterdam100, a talent contest for young entreprene...
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Interview with European Youth Award winner Matteo Consonni31 May 2017Matteo Consonni, Public Administration graduate at Leiden University won the European Youth Award (EYA) in 2015. In this interview with EYA, he tells ...
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Quirine Eijkman over het in de gaten houden van potentiële terroristen25 May 2017Quirine Eijkman, terrorism expert at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, talked about the attack in Manchester.
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Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn about the term ‘soft target’24 May 2017Since the attack of 22 may 2017 in the Manchester Arena, we have often seen the term ‘soft target’. Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, researcher at the I...