Jan Eijking
Universitair Docent
- Name
- Dr. J. Eijking
- j.eijking@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3662-5956
Jan Eijking is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.
Jan Eijking is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science. He works on expertise, empire, and capitalism in the history and theory of international organisations. Jan is the author of The Technocratic International (OUP, 2026) and the editor of Experts in a Turbulent World (OUP, 2026).
Prior to joining Leiden University, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Antwerp (2025-26) and William Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford (2023-25) associated with the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders. He currently is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association’s Historical International Relations Section (2025-27).
Jan previously completed a DPhil in International Relations at Balliol College, University of Oxford (2023), which was awarded the 2025 Merze Tate Award by the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the 2024 Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in International Relations in Oxford. His research has also been awarded the Barbara W. Tuchman Prize (ISA 2023), the Prize for Best Graduate Paper in IR Theory (ISA 2023), the Fred Hartmann Award (ISA-Northeast 2022), and the EISA Best Graduate Paper Award (2021).
His research has been published in International Studies Quarterly, the European Journal of International Relations, and the Review of International Studies. He also regularly writes for public outlets such as Time Magazine, The New Statesman, Jacobin, The TLS, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Personal website: janeijking.com
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jan-eijking
Universitair Docent
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Political Science
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- Eijking Jan (2026), The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Eijking J., Hom A.R., Somsen G., Sending O.J., Murphy C.N., Hochmüller M., Uribe J., Eilstrup-Sangiovanni M., Hoffmann A. & Lynch Dungy M. (2026), Experts in a Turbulent World. Oxford: Oxford University PressOxford.
- Eijking Jan (2025), Brain worlds: information order and interwar intellectual cooperation, European Journal of International Relations 31(3): 537-560.
- Eijking Jan (2023), Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts, International Studies Quarterly 67(3): .
- Eijking J (2022), A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon, International Studies Quarterly 66(1): .
- Eijking Jan (2026) Pathways for history and international relations. Review of: , Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations. Cambridge Review of International Affairs .
- Eijking Jan (2026), Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms, Review of International Studies : .
- Eijking Jan (2025), Machine conquest: Jules Verne’s technocratic worldmaking, Review of International Studies 51(2): 256-273.
- Eijking j. (2025), The Micro-politics of International Commissions The Case of Telegraphic Standards Chapter in Mansouri, N and Quiroga-Villamarín, D (eds) Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law: Cambridge University Press. 186-207.
- Eijking J. (2024) Whose Power is Knowledge?. Review of: . Global Intellectual History 9(3): 307-315.
- Eijking J (2022) Looking for Utopia: Experts and Global Governance. Review of: . Journal of International Political Theory 18(2): 262--272.
- Eijking J. (2022), Why Does Colombia Export Security Expertise? Security Cooperation Between Status and Bureaucracy. In: Solar C. & Perez Ricart C.A. (Eds.), Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America: Themes and Trends: Routledge.
- Eijking J. (2021) Corporate Sovereignty and Modern International Order. Review of: Phillips A. & Sharman J.C. (2020), Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. International Studies Review 23(3): 1004-1005.
- Eijking J. (2021) Time’s monster: history, conscience and Britain’s empire. . Review of: Priya Satia. Global Intellectual History 6(2): 259-162.