Nikki Ikani
Assitant Professor
- Name
- Dr. N. Ikani
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9506
- n.ikani@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7625-0530
Dr. Nikki Ikani is Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security. Her key interests are European Security and processes of warning and anticipation of international crises. Her work connects the fields of International Relations, Public Administration and Intelligence Studies. In 2023, Nikki won a NWO Veni Grant for her research project From Alert to Action: the difficult journey of warnings in international politics. Nikki Ikani is a member of the FGGA Faculty Council and the coordinator of the minor in Intelligence Studies. She is also a research fellow at the War Studies Department of King’s College London.
More information about Nikki Ikani
Research output
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The underlying causes of strategic surprise in EU foreign policy -
Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking: Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise -
Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy -
Learning the Right Lessons for the Next Pandemic -
European foreign policy in times of crisis: a political development lens
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An analytical framework for postmortems of European foreign policy: should decision-makers have been surprised?
News and media
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Veni grant for Nikki Ikani and Bernardo Ribeiro de Almeida -
Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers -
Joachim Koops awarded with Jean Monnet Chair on ‘The EU’s Role in Security and Global Affairs’ -
European foreign policy after a crisis: change and continuity -
The Importance of International Women’s Day: ‘Gender equality worldwide is nowhere to be found’ -
Nikki Ikani’s new book on crises and change in European foreign policy
Dr. Nikki Ikani is Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security. Her key interests are European Security and processes of warning and anticipation of international crises. Her work connects the fields of International Relations, Public Administration and Intelligence Studies.
Nikki Ikani has published in amongst others the Journal of European Integration, Geopolitics, Intelligence and National Security, and European Security. She is also the author of Crisis and Change in European Union Foreign Policy (Manchester University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
In 2023, she won a NWO Veni Grant for her research project From Alert to Action: the difficult journey of warnings in international politics, which seeks to investigate and improve our understanding of how warnings about international crises "travel" through the EU and NATO. Her research findings are further disseminated in Dutch and international media outlets, including NRC, EU Observer, and Radio France Internationale.
Nikki Ikani is the coordinator of the minor Intelligence Studies. She also coordinates the European Strategic Dialogue, a seminar series which organises quarterly sessions that touch upon the security and defence policies of the Netherlands, Germany, France and the EU, and is a member of the FGGA Faculty Council. She is also managing editor at the literary magazine Poets Reading the News and a Research Fellow at the War Studies Department of King’s College London.
Prior to joining Leiden University, Nikki Ikani was a PhD researcher and postdoctoral research associate at King’s College London.
Assitant Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Intelligence
- Ikani Nikki (2024) The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough by Erik J Dahl. Review of: Erik J. Dahl (2023). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Political Science Quarterly .
- Ikani N. (22 November 2023), Als Trump president wordt, is onze veiligheid echt onzeker. NRC.nl.
- Ikani N. & Meyer C.O. (2023), The underlying causes of strategic surprise in EU foreign policy: a post-mortem investigation of the Arab uprisings and the Ukraine–Russia crisis of 2013/14, European Security 32(2): 27-293.
- Meyer C.O., Guttmann A. & Ikani N. (2022), Which Lessons to Learn from an Era of Surprise? : Key Findings and Implications from the Dual Comparison. In: Meyer C.O., Michaels E., Ikani N., Guttmann A. & Goodman M. (Eds.), Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking : Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press.
- Meyer C.O. & Ikani N. (2022), The Case of the Ukraine–Russia Undeclared War 2013/2014: Lessons for the EU’s Estimative Intelligence. In: Meyer C.O., Michaels E., Ikani N., Guttmann A. & Goodman M. (Eds.), Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking : Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press.
- Meyer C., Michaels E., Ikani N., Guttman A. & Goodman M.S. (2022), Estimative intelligence in European foreign policy making: learning lessons from an era of surprise. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Ikani N. (17 October 2022), What three crises can teach us about how to avoid foreign policy surprises, Publishing Blog.
- Ikani N. (15 October 2022), Waarom internationale crises de EU telkens weer verrassen. NRC Handelsblad, Opinie & Debat.
- Guttmann A., Ikani N., Meyer C.O. & Michaels E. (2022), Introduction: Estimative Intelligence and Anticipatory Foreign Policy . In: Meyer C.O., Michaels E., Ikani N., Guttmann A. & Goodman M. (Eds.), Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking : Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise. Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press.
- Nikki Ikani (2022), Surprise, Revisited: An EU Performance Evaluation of the Arab Uprisings. In: Meyer C.O., Michaels E., Ikani N., Guttmann A. & Goodman M. (Eds.), Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking : Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise. Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare: Edinburgh University Press. 69-95.
- Ikani N. (2021), Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy: a framework of EU foreign policy change European Politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Ikani N. (2021), European foreign policy in times of crisis: a political development lens. In: Voltolini B., Natorski M. & Hay C. (Eds.), Crisis and politicisation: the framing and re-framing of Europe’s permanent crisis. Journal of European Integration Special Issues. London : Routledge .
- Ikani N. (2020), European foreign policy in times of crisis: a political development lens, Journal of European Integration 42(5): 767-782.
- Ikani N., Guttmann A. & Meyer C.O. (2020), An analytical framework for postmortems of European foreign policy: should decision-makers have been surprised?, Intelligence and National Security 35(2): 197-215.
- Ikani N. (2019), Change and Continuity in the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Ukraine Crisis as a Critical Juncture, Geopolitics 24(1): 20-50.