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The underlying causes of strategic surprise in EU foreign policy
This paper aims to understand the most common underlying problems causing strategic surprise in the context of the European Union.
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The typology and formal semantics of adnominal possession
On May 2nd, Elena Karvovskaya succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Elena on this great result.
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Lipid mediated colloidal interactions
The lipid membrane is a basic structural component of all living cells. Embedded in this nanometer-thin barrier, membrane proteins shape the membrane and at the same time respond to the shape of the membrane.
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Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest.
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The intergenerational transmission of an extreme belief systems: Theoretical exploration of a new field of study
With the recent rise and fall of IS, academics and policy makers around the world are expressing concerns about the fate of children of former foreign fighters. Will they follow in their parents’ footsteps? In this paper, Layla van Wieringen, Daan Weggemans and Marieke Liem argue that in light of this…
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JARAK
“JARAK: the commoditization of an alternative biofuel crop in Indonesia” was a research program from 2010-2014 in which researchers from Indonesia and the Netherlands collaborated.
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Energy Survival Guide
This book provides the answers, presenting clear insights into the current state of affairs and exploring future prospects.
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De Jongh & Fougère, Specters of Arendt
The threat of totalitarian domination; the rise of bureaucratic expertise; the resurgence of nationalisms and xenophobia; the claims of religion in secular societies; and the importance of robust legal and political institutions: these are among the main issues that mark—or specters that haunt—the 20th…
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Oegstgeest. A riverine settlement in the early medieval world system
Generations of Leiden students and academics have done archaeological research into the early medieval history of Oegstgeest. This makes this old settlement one of the best-documented sites from that era. In a new book, Leiden researchers take stock.
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Single-electrolyte isotachophoresis: on-chip analyte focusing and separation
Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-promotores: Heiko van der Linden, Paul Vulto
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Conceptualizing Authorship in Late Imperial Chinese Philology
Daniel Stumm defended his thesis on 16 April 2020.
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The Transatlantic Era (1989–2020) in Documents and Speeches
This accessible textbook uses key documents embedded in a clear narrative to chart the post-Cold War rise and decline of transatlantic relations. It provides a novel interpretive framework by proposing that the three decades between 1989 and 2020 represent a distinct ‘transatlantic era’.
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Podcast
The Hague Diplomacy Podcast aims at bringing the themes of the journal's research off the page, and onto the discussion table. Each episode will feature a guest who will share their insights and personal experience within their practice of or research on diplomacy.
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TARGETBIO: Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Engineered DNA from Transgenic Biosystems in Nature
This project aims to assess the risk of spread of antimicrobial resistance genes in the environment derived from currently used synthetic biology approaches in the field of drug discovery.
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Genetic, biochemical and neural correlates of vulnerability to depression.
How do genetic and environmental factors make us vulnerable to depression?
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Stakeholder engagement as a conduit for regulatory legitimacy?
Stakeholder engagement practices are on the rise in regulatory governance. This raises an important question regarding implications for regulatory legitimacy. Engagement mechanisms are not by default legitimizing: Even when initiated to tap into an array of ‘benevolent’ desiderata, unless carefully…
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Japanese Confucianism
“Winner CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award 2016” A Cultural History
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Essays on trends in income distribution and redistribution in affluent countries and China
Over the last decades, income inequality has increased globally. How do social policies affect this increasing trend? How do international trade and technological progress affect inequality? What is the profile of income inequality in China?
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Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia
Provides a cutting-edge comparative political economy analysis of welfare and inequality across ten East Asian countries.
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Essays on Welfare Benefits, Employment, and Crime
On 20 January 2022, Marco Stam defended the thesis 'Essays on Welfare Benefits, Employment, and Crime'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. M.G. Knoef.
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Freedom and the Fifth Commandment. Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1919-21
A new paperback edition of Brian Heffernan's book Freedom and the Fifth Commandment. Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1919-21 was published by Manchester University Press in September 2016.
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Protoplanetary disk anatomy: examining the structure and chemistry of planetary birthplaces with simple molecules
This thesis examines the link between simple molecules and the underlying structure and chemistry within protoplanetary disks - the birthplaces of planets.
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Debating Public Diplomacy
This book is a much-needed update on our understanding of public diplomacy. It intends to stimulate new thinking on what is one of the most remarkable recent developments in diplomatic practice that has challenged practitioners as much as scholars.
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How Jihadist Networks Operate
The recent terrorist attacks in Europe are presumably not just acts committed by individuals, but acts facilitated by larger jihadist networks. But how do such networks operate? Understanding their modus operandi can be useful knowledge to counter terrorist threats.
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French and the French-speaking world
Within this minor program, not only can you enhance your proficiency in French, but also delve into the recent history and culture the Francophone world, from Canada to the Maghreb and the Caribbean.
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About this minor
Port cities develop at the intersection of international trade and commerce and at the interface between sea and land. What does the future of port cities look like with urbanization, sea level rise, new migrant flows and the disappearance of old industries? This is addressed in the minor (Re)Imagining…
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Immersive Journalism: Virtual Reality and the Future of the News Industry
This collection explores how immersive technologies affect newsmaking and the positive and negative impacts they may have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection.
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Plural Gender: Behavioral evidence for plural as a value of Cushitic gender with reference to Konso
On July 5th, Mulugeta Tarekegne Tsegaye succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Mulugeta on this great result.
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The Power of Knowledge Ethical, Legal and Technological Aspects of Data Mining and Group Profiling in Epidemiology
With the rise of information and communication technologies, large amounts of data are being generated and stored in databases. In order to get a better grip on these large amounts of data, serious efforts are being made to discover patterns and relations in the data with the help of new techniques.…
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Accountable Artificial Intelligence: Holding Algorithms to Account
Artificial intelligence algorithms govern in subtle, yet fundamental ways, the way we live and are transforming our societies. The promise of efficient, low‐cost or ‘neutral’ solutions harnessing the potential of big data has led public bodies to adopt algorithmic systems in the provision of public…
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REEsilience
How can we ensure a more resilient and sustainable supply of Rare Earths in the EU in the future?
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Social Forces, States and Hydropolitics of the River Nile: Case Studies of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan
This research aims to investigate how different social forces interact with hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin and what are the constraints of engagement.
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Negotiating Islamisation and resistance : a study of religions, politics and social change in West Java from the early 20th Century to the present
Chaider Bamualim defended his thesis on 9 September 2015
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AI-MAPS
AI MAPS adopts a freedom and social well-being perspective and focuses on three themes to address key security challenges; Social disorder and public nuisances in neighbourhoods, High-impact crime, and Crowds and events.
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Global Interactions
How does global change across time and space lead to convergence and loss of variation or increasing diversity and conflict?
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Translating China: Henri Borel (1869-1933)
Audrey Heijns defended her thesis on 28 June 2016
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Critical Perspectives on Salafism in the Netherlands
The study by Tahir Abbas and Liselotte Welten reveals a structural and nuanced understanding of how the question of Salafism in the Netherlands has become an increasingly discussed phenomenon and the types of threats that ought to give genuine concern to security, intelligence and policing services.
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Correlates of Complexity
Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology Dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer in Honour of his 65th Birthday
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The Global Politics of Confucianism
The Global Politics of Confucianism, a monograph contracted with Columbia University Press, analyzes the interaction between Confucianism and globalism in past and present, using history to critically engage Confucianism’s place in contemporary international relations and policy debates.
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Framing Late Antique Religion
This research programme encourages the analysis of nascent Islam within the framework of religious studies.
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Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement
Dario Fazzi
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The dawn of Dutch: language change in the Low Countries between 500 and 1200 AD
The main goal of this project is to answer the question: how did Dutch acquire its own, distinctive linguistic characteristics?
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Universities as engines of technological change
An examination of academic organization at the forefront of the biotechnology revolution
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La Naissance d’une thalassocratie - Les Pays-Bas et la mer à l’aube du siècle d’or
La naissance d’une thalassocratie considers the contribution of the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands to the rise of the Dutch Republic as a maritime power. In Braudelian fashion, its chapters follow three lines of research.
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When galaxy clusters collide: the impact of merger shocks on cluster gas and galaxy evolution
Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.A. Rottgering, Co-promotor: David Sobral
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The unique geographic and temporal breadth of research at Leiden allows us to stimulate a shift from the classical Weberian mode of scholarly production that views historical development and modernization as emanating from Europe and the West to a multi-polar perspective that allows for more nuanced,…
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Islamophobia and Radicalisation
A measured yet theoretically innovative exploration of how Islamophobia and radicalisation intersect and reinforce each other.