💡Another insightful public discussion on NATO’s evolving relationship with Ukraine and Russia organized by @clingendael.bsky.social and moderated by Niels Drost 🎙️Speakers: Elizaveta Gaufman, Han Bouwmeester, Bob Deen, and Hubert Smeets

📢 ‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’ 🌍 During the Just Peace Dialogues from 16 to 22 June in The Hague, institute member Daniel Thomas will call for greater awareness – and dialogue. Read the interview here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Our paper is published in OA in West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social! What a milestone 🥳

What happened in the Netherlands and what will happen next? I wrote a short piece about the collapse of the Dutch government for @ukandeu.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/when-not-if-...

🚨 New Paper in the Journal of European Public Policy 🚨 Think anti-immigration sentiment is here to stay? 🧠 Think again. New research by Alessia Aspide (in which I play a small role) reveals a new insight: when people understand immigration as a solution to fiscal crisis, attitudes shift 1/2

new books’ haul and an advertisement for our BIG SUMMER CHOIR concert with Pandora Studio on June 8th! Tickets here: lnkd.in/dvSSmMSp

Just over half a year ago, the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics was published. This means that authors working at Dutch universities, can now share a copy of their chapters online for free access, according to Dutch copyright law. My own chapters are linked below 👇

Go buy Mateo’s book! Brilliant work published by @leidenup.bsky.social

Looking forward to Just Peace Festival www.justpeacethehague.org/en/

let me jump on the bandwagon of the continuous conversation on the generative AI, education, political polarization and the technology's role in these: now that #grok is available in Europe for some time and has advanced its functionality, I went on X to play around with it and examine some things

In 2018 I came across an expose of “Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship” project (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievan...). This attempt “to highlight perceived poor scholarship by submitting bogus papers to academic journals” has blown my mind but raised many questions

shared the last five years at @unileiden.bsky.social with these power ladies: @aspidea.bsky.social and @kjbrown.bsky.social. Could not be happier to be part of Alessia’s defense to celebrate our new Dottoressa 🎓

Last Friday I had the privilege of listening to a panel of wonderful speakers and participating in the international symposium on “Democracy, Stability and Peace: Is the Future Feminine?” at @unileiden.bsky.social