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Conference: Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci and Erik de Lange will be speakers at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, on the 27th of February 2021
Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci and Erik de Lange will be speakers at the 2021 annual conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850. This conference will take place over…
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Erik de Lange awarded the 2019 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Charlie Crouch Graduate Student Paper Prize
Erik de Lange received this prize for his paper “No Security, Except in Destruction”: Transnational Threats, International Anxieties and the French Invasion of Algiers. The abstract of his paper: The French…
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Conference Reports of ‘Cultures of Security. Transimperial Perspectives’ by Yannick Balk and Paul Kardoulakis
Yannick Balk and Paul Kardoulakis wrote two reports of the recent ERC-Conference ‘Cultures of Security. Transimperial Perspective’ (9-10 May). The first report was published by H-Soz-Kult. The other report was…
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Call for Papers: Cultures of Security in the Nineteenth Century. Transimperial Perspectives
On 9 and 10 May 2019 we will host the closing conference of the ERC-project Securing Europe, Fighting Its Enemies. The Making of a Security Culture in Europe and Beyond, 1815–1914 at…
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Beatrice de Graaf awarded with highest distinction in Dutch Academia (€2.5M)
Prof. Beatrice de Graaf(Professor of the History of International Relations) has received the prestigious Stevin Prize from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The prize of 2.5 million euros…
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New volume on Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000
Joep Schenk, Erik de Lange, Beatrice de Graaf and Wouter Klem recently contributed to a new volume on Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands. The volume is edited by Ruud…
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Review by Erik de Lange of J. Meeks – France, Britain, and the Mediterranean
Erik de Lange wrote a review of the newest book of Joshua Meeks: France, Britain and the Mediterranean. The review was featured by H-Soz-Kult. The book is a revision of Mooks’s dissertation…
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Conference Report on In-Between Empires: Trans-imperial History in a Global Age
Last September, Ozan Ozavci attended an international workshop in Berlin on Trans-imperial History in a Global Age. Seventeen scholars from twelve countries were invited to present their papers, divided into…
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Call for participation: Master Class Global perspectives on security history in the nineteenth century
With the generous support of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Beatrice de Graaf and Dr Ozan Ozavci organise a master class for PhD and Research MA…
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Academy Colloquium: Securing the World: Global Perspectives on Security History in the Nineteenth Century
With the generous support of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, our ERC research team organises an academy colloquium to be held at the headquarters of the Royal Academy…
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Beatrice de Graaf elected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Prof. Beatrice de Graaf, Principal Investigator of ERC SECURE, has been elected as new member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In the Netherlands, membership of the KNAW…
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Beatrice de Graaf in NRC on present-day parallels with the nineteenth century
Can we understand the present better by looking into the past? In an interview with NRC Handelsblad, Beatrice de Graaf debated with two other Dutch historians (Martin Bossenbroek and Geerten Waling)…
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Beatrice de Graaf on new ERC plans in NRC Handelsblad
Beatrice de Graaf writes in NRC Handelsblad about her perspective on the New Year and draws a comparison with the turn of the year from 1816 to 1817. With the…
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Beatrice de Graaf and George Dimitriu publish summer reading list on strategic narratives and war
Scholars are increasingly focusing on the non-physical aspects of war in order to explain ‘why big nations lose small wars’. One of the central arguments in the debate is that it is increasingly important to explain what success will look like to the local population, opponents, the international audience and the public at home, and to convince them of the official storyline.
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Article in ‘Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis’ by Joep Schenk
Joep Schenk recently published a new article in the Dutch journal ‘Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis‘ (Journal for Naval History), titled ‘War-time opportunities. Rhine sailors versus the Coal-trading union, 1914-1918’. Abstract: During the First World…
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New volume on Terrorism Trials, edited by Beatrice de Graaf and Alex P. Schmid
In their new book Terrorists on Trial: A Performative Perspective, editors Prof. Dr Beatrice de Graaf and Prof. Dr Alex P. Schmid present a performative perspective on terrorism trials, drawing attention to the…
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Interview with Joep Schenk on the Rhine commission in ‘Nieuwsblad Transport’
Joep Schenk was interviewed by Nieuwsblad Transport on the Rhine Commission (Central Commission for Navigation of the Rhine, CCNR) and its contribution to the creation of a European security culture in the nineteenth…
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Article by Beatrice de Graaf on reintegration of jihadist ex-convicts
A special issue on radicalisation and terrorism of the journal Justitiële verkenningen (Judicial explorations, no.2, 2016) explores the attractiveness of IS to (islamic) European yougsters and the apocalyptic nature of IS ideology….
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Ozan Ozavci gives keynote speech at NISIS Network Day
On Friday 27 May 2016, the fourth annual NISIS Islamic Studies Network day will be held at Leiden University. This year’s theme is: ‘War in Syria: dynamics, and the consequences…
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European Council on Foreign Relations interviews Beatrice de Graaf (podcast)
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Beatrice de Graaf, Professor of History of International Relations at Utrecht University, Michiel van Hulten, one of the leaders of the Dutch yes-campaign, and…
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Erik de Lange discusses First Barbary War on national news radio
In the 7 February 2016 broadcast of the daily Dutch news radio show ‘Met Het Oog Op Morgen’ (Radio 1) PhD candidate Erik de Lange was interviewed on the First Barbary War…
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Lecture “Finding the Terrorist” by Beatrice de Graaf at UCLA
On 18 February 2016 Beatrice de Graaf is invited to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) by the department of Dutch Studies to give the Van Tilburg Lecture at…
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Erik de Lange discusses American piracy bestseller on national radio
On 24 January PhD candidate Erik de Lange was interviewed during the Dutch radio show ‘Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd’, which is broadcasted weekly on Radio 1. He discussed the recent bestseller…
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Barons and Tycoons of the Rhine: Joep Schenk’s Dissertation Available Online
On November 19, 2015 Joep Schenk successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Port Barons and Ruhr Tycoons : the origins of an interdependent relationship between Rotterdam and the Ruhr area 1870-1914’….
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WRR Lecture ‘Europe in Crisis’, with Mark Mazower, Beatrice de Graaf and Ernst Hirsch Ballin available online
On December 3, 2015 Mark Mazower (Professor of History, Columbia University) presented a lecture at the WRR in The Hague, In this lecture, he explored the current European crisis from a historical…
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Book Launch Strategic Narratives at NATO Headquarters (podcast onine)
The edited volume Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning domestic support for the war at home (Routledge 2015) explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for…
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Beatrice de Graaf opened academic year at Erasmus University with lecture on the role of the scientist
In a context of accelerating, institutional, intellectual and moral uncertainties, what role does the scientist play? What role ought he to play, and how can politics and institutional settings facilitate…
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Ozan Ozavci, Opposition to Authoritarianism (Turkish Studies)
This article discusses the establishment, ideology and actions of the Liberal International and its Turkish group the Society for the Dissemination of Free Ideas (SDFI). The SDFI was the first…
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Beatrice de Graaf, Second-tier Diplomacy (Journal of Modern European History)
This article supplements Anglo- or Prussian dominated readings of the Vienna Conference by focusing more on its beginnings, on alternative scenarios of a Dutch-German union and on the process of…
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Conference Reviews “Vienna 1815” conference
Wouter Klem published two reviews of the conference “Vienna 1815: The making of a European security culture”. During this conference, the existence of a European security culture was identified and…
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