Larissa Versloot, PhD is a postdoctoral associate fellow at Leiden University. She previously worked at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) as a postdoctoral researcher and was a visiting Fulbright PhD fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, New York.

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Larissa's interests are broadly directed towards multilateral cooperation, foreign policy strategies and diplomatic negotiations. Her research focuses on the concepts of trust and distrust in the field of International Relations, more generally, and how trust is maintained in diplomatic practice more specifically. Making use of qualitative methods (fieldwork, interviews) she investigates the workings of trust and distrust in informal decision-making in the European Union, primarily in the realm of its common security and defence policy.

Larissa has published in major scholarly outlets such as International Affairs and Review of International Studies. In her work, Larissa actively bridges the gap between academia and the practical reality of diplomatic decision-making.