1,245 search results for “legal democracy” in the Public website
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Institute for Philosophy Common Book Launch
Conference
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POSTPONED: Civic and ethnic nations in Southeast Asia
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
- CPP Colloquia 2023-2024
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The Enlargement
Lecture, Book talk
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CPP Colloquium "Legitimate disobedience and epistemic humility"
Lecture
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Political Social Networks in Indonesia Workshop
Workshop
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Documentary Screening: Amigo Secreto (+ Q&A with the director)
Arts and culture, Screening
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CPP Colloquium “A cultural theory of deliberation”
Lecture
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Peer-review procedures as practice, decision, and governance—the road to theories of peer review
CWTS Seminar
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Six questions about the British referendum and a possible Brexit
The shocking murder of MP Jo Cox has brought it home to the British public that the referendum debate is in disarray. How has the campaign been handled and what would be the consequences of a Brexit? Jan Rood, Professor by special appointment of European Integration, and political scientist Hans Vollaard…
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Blog Post | Is UN Celebrity Diplomacy in China Effective?
In this blog post Saskia Postema and Jan Melissen claim that Chinese UN celebrities’ activism under Xi Jinping has become aligned with the Chinese leadership’s ambitions.
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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Blog Post | Diplomacy’s Response to the Coronavirus (Part II)
The previous blog post in this series discussed the role of international diplomacy during the coronavirus crisis. This post focuses on diplomacy and its challenges in post-corona times. Specifically, the blog post argues that diplomats will face a range of challenges following the Covid-19 pandemic…
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Social Science Matters: How should we discuss terrorism in our schools?
As schools in the U.S., students have to enter through security gates; schools in Belgium were forced to remain closed for several days after the attacks there; and even in the Netherlands various bomb scares have led to children having to stay at home. And yet fear of terrorism remains a difficult…
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Blog Post | The Populist Challenge and the Domestic Turn in Diplomacy
Author: Andrew F. Cooper
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Michiel and Jort: best friends, political rivals
With the Dutch general elections just around the corner, it’s not always easy when political differences exist within your circle of friends. How do you not lose sight of each other in political discussions? We asked best friends Jort Schaafsma and Michiel van der Velde, both students at Leiden Law…
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Mike Field to head the Bioarchaeology Labs
Dr Mike Field is the newly appointed Head of the Bioarchaeology Laboratories (Zoology, Human Osteology, and Botany). The new laboratories provide members of the Faculty with a first class infrastructure. “I see the laboratories as available for everyone to use.”
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‘In those days you could learn as much as you wanted at university’
Having flirted with Egyptology and Italian, Dieuwertje Kuijpers found her true calling in the Master’s in European Union Studies. She is now a freelance journalist specialising in politics, security and defence. But she is also at home writing columns for ThePostOnline and hard-hitting articles for…
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They want a seat in The Hague City Council
Many students, staff and alumni of Leiden University are politically active. In the run-up to the local elections on 21 March, candidates in The Hague and Leiden explain why you should vote for them, and what they want to do if they are elected. In this article, it is the turn of the candidates in The…
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Scaliger medal presented to LERU President Kurt Deketelaere
The first Scaliger Medal was presented on 19 September to Leuven Professor Kurt Deketelaere, President of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). He received the award in recognition of his tireless commitment to promoting European research.
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’
‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as he heard from a number of Leiden researchers, this is contingent upon a firm disciplinary basis. A novelty of this year’s celebration was a joint dies…
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Rector Stolker: ‘Give chance a chance’
What does Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker think about subjects such as student stress, ‘clean’ transcripts and the onward march of the English language? Law students fired their questions at Stolker during the Leiden version of College Tour on 27 January.
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‘Creating propaganda has been democratised’
University lecturer Peter Burger has been researching the reliability of stories for almost 30 years. Whether political news item or urban myth, he debunks falsehoods and half-truths on an almost daily basis. He recently received a prize for his complete oeuvre.
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Anoma van der Veere: ‘In Japan, the awkward little masks symbolise the government’s failure’
Leiden Asia Centre researcher Anoma van der Veere argues that the Japanese government has failed to respond properly to Covid-19. There were difficulties with implementing government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus – in some cases those measures were not even taken seriously. How…
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Violence Visible and Invisible: On Political Violence and Forms of Aesthetic Resistance to its Erasure and Distortion. One day symposium
Conference
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Entangled Transformations: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Power Dynamics in Belarus
Lecture, Research seminar
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Enlightenment, Empire and Fanaticism
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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FAO at the crossroads: democratic reformism or "market authoritarianism"? The case of the Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación en Reforma
Lecture
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From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Lecture, China Seminar
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Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace and How to Restore It
Lecture
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A Conversation on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century'
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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India in the World: Interaction with Rahul Gandhi and Sam Pitroda
Lecture, Event
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Ben Feringa Lecture 2022 by Beatrice de Graaf: "Geopolitical Challenges, Security Threats"
Alumni event, Lecture for Leiden Alumni living on the West Coast USA
- GTGC lunch seminar: Elina Zorina on Distinctiveness in the Parliamentary Arena
- LUGO Symposium + VR workshop
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Seminar and book discussion
Lecture, Seminar and book discussion
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Reflections on a year of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Neo Pan-Arabism and the Quest for Legitimacy of the Maghrebi Leadership
Lecture, research seminar
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Public Support for Citizenship Expansion in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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The Nuclear-Water Nexus
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Fireside Peace Chat with Arnold Stepanyan
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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Dutch Universities Alumni Event - Jakarta 27 Sept 2023
Alumni event
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EUniWell Open lectures series | War, Peace and Overcoming Helplessness: The Role of Universities
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Asia Research cluster workshop: collaborative research and stakeholder interaction
Course, Workshop
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
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Social Europe in the context of the green and digital transition
Lecture, Seminar
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RENPET round table: Europe's turning point
Debate
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant
Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and teaching links: all 14 projects that Leiden University submitted to the EU’s International Credit Mobility programme have been awarded a grant. Three ex…
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