Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2024: the nominees
Research skills are an essential component of the education programmes of the Institute of Political Science. After all, the challenges our (international) society faces require objective, well-founded analysis. And our graduates, whether they go on to further study or enter the job market, have that researcher’s eye. This is evidenced by the theses in Political Science/International Politics and IRO being nominated for an undergraduate thesis award. The winners will be announced on 18 October 2024.
BSc Political Science: International Relations and Organisations—the shortlist
Babak RezaeeDaryakenari, Nikoleta Yordanova and Billy Tsagkroni face the difficult task of picking a winner from a very strong field of contenders from the BSc Political Science: International Relations and Organisations. The outcome of the jury’s studies and deliberation will be announced on Friday afternoon 18 October 2024, during the IRO graduation ceremony in the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden.
- Maia Curti, The Fertile Grounds of The Human Condition: How agriculture challenges the boundaries of Arendt’s Labor, Work, and Action (supervisor: Matt Longo)
- Nina Del Corona, Fight Like a Girl: How women’s participation affects the outcome of violent political campaigns (supervisor: Babak Rezaeedaryakenari)
- Lennart Engel, Sponsors of Death? A Quantitative Analysis of Nonstate External Support and Rebel Group One-Sided Violence (supervisor: Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl)
- Wakana Kitamura, Virtual Voices: how Iranian diaspora communities utilize cyberfeminism in the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ movement to form collective identity (supervisor: Seohee Kwak)
- Charlotta van Haßel, Do Values Matter? exploring the impact of human values on attitudes toward EU integration (supervisor: Josh Robison)
- Harry Ioannou, Sacrificing Values for Geopolitics? Changes in EU Framing of Challenges to Democracy and the Rule of Law in Candidate States after the War in Ukraine (supervisor: Tom Theuns)
- Grayson Kokal Golcer, Fertile Goddesses and Aryan Peasants: Themes of Ecology in Nazi State-Sponsored Painting (supervisor: Rebecca Ploof)
- Arwen Le Bars, The Tipping Point: How women’s political empowerment may reduce the prevalence of FGM (supervisor: Jonathan Phillips)
- Rodrigo Lugo Ochoa, The Right to Dispossess? Testing private property Security as a determinant of transnational agricultural land grabs (supervisor: Cynthia Bejeno)
- Paolo Mantecchini, Marginal damage and remedial responsibility: Revisiting the time dimension of the Polluter Pays Principle (supervisor: Jelena Belic)
- Saga Sjöberg, How, if at all, does motherhood affect environmental advocacy among politicians? An analysis of Swedish national parliamentarians’ environmental advocacy before and after becoming mothers (supervisor: Corinna Jentzsch)
- Michaela Todd, In Troubled Waters: How small island developing states are rescuing their statehood from sea-level rise (supervisor: Yuan Zhu)
- Erato Vaitisi, Colonial Discourse During The War on Terror: How the USA, the UK, and Australia Undermined International Humanitarian Law (supervisor: Muge Kinacioglu)
Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg Prize 2023 (best thesis Politicologie/Internationale Politiek): the shortlist
The jury for the programme BSc Politicologie and the specialisation Internationale Politiek, consisting of SPIL-delegate Gijs Verhoeff (student-member and chair), Joop van den Berg, Leila Demarest and Marco Verschoor, is currently deep reading the nominated theses. The winner will be announced during the graduation ceremony on Friday morning 18 October 2024 in the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden.
- Robin Buijs, Stem op een vrouw? De descriptieve en substantieve vertegenwoordiging van vrouwen in Nederlandse gemeenten (supervisor: Cynthia van Vonno)
- Thijs Brinksma, Coercion and Accommodation: Crisis Bargaining between Turkey and Iran in the Syrian Civil War. How did Turkey and Iran manage their conflicting interests in the Syrian civil war? (supervisor: Ivan Bakalov)
- Ayla Covington, Afstandelijk of aanwezig: over de politieke dienstverlening van Nederlandse gemeenteraadsleden in de eigen gemeente (supervisor: Cynthia van Vonno)
- Lennart van Pijkeren, Vijandigheid als oorzaak van politieke participatie. De invloed van affectieve polarisatie op niet-electorale politieke participatie in Nederland (supervisor: Marijn Nagtzaam)
- Zara Sarjan, Impact of Using Education as a Cultural Statecraft Tool on Russia’s State Image in Armenia and Georgia (supervisor: Ivan Bakalov)
- Isa van Schaick, Counter-Hegemony: How Green Parties Challenge Capitalism as a Dominant Ideology (supervisor: Ivan Bakalov)
- Marnix van Thiel, Frames, Values and Support for Nuclear Energy: A Survey Experiment (supervisor: Rutger Hagen)