Slegers, Saar
What is the impact of international sanctions against Iran on organisations in the Netherlands? What dilemmas do companies, universities and citizens face when geopolitics gets personal?
What is the impact of international sanctions against Iran on organisations in the Netherlands? What dilemmas do companies, universities and citizens face when geopolitics gets personal?
The increasing complexity and heterogeneity of contemporary societies represent a major challenge to European welfare states. Their boundaries of social rights, political participation and ethnic...
What is the impact of court decisions on the behaviour and organization of political parties? To what extent have the courts been politicized? How does the background of judges influence their de...
How does the politics of contentious governance work?
The core question of the proposed project is: how does (and how might) Amsterdam give shape to the citizenship of the non-citizen? In order to examine this, the project will combine theories of p...
How has the Central Intelligence Agency shaped American cultural and political ideas, and in turn, how have those ideas shaped the work of American intelligence?
Female disempowerment is a critical and urgent challenge for many Muslim countries. It undermines their prosperity, their interaction with European societies, and the global achievement of Sustai...
Why do authoritarian states carry out gender equality reforms?
The relationship between religion and politics has always been one of the most controversial social issues throughout modern history. Despite the separation of state and church in many countries,...
To what extent disputes that take place at the workplace in various settings do impact the social perceptions about immigrants and minority group members in a society?
Currently, we witness a changing landscape of elderly care with neo-liberalism, new forms of governance, transformed gender relations and migration. Existing theorization cannot grasp this caring...
Research of wartime civilian agency demonstrates how civilians resist armed actors collectively, adapt to changing conflict zones, and build local resilience. How does civilian resilience buildin...
This project aims to develop a new conceptual understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by disentangling the various conflict paradigms (e.g. settler-colonial, national, national-religiou...
This project is a biography of the diplomatic life of V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and situates his life and work in the 1920s within the politics of liberal internationalism.
What determines the prospects of contemporary protest movements, or lack thereof, to induce significant changes in electoral politics? Why some protest movements have been more effective in resha...
The project’s main question will be what structural comparative research teaches us about forms and scale of, the motives for and the conditions conducive to the use of (extreme) violence by Du...
The proposed project is devoted to the analysis of the Ukrainian political system after the 2014 Euromaidan revolution. I intend to explore the decisive role of informal politics and shadow patro...
How do religious and secular ideas circulate between religious and secular courts, monastic settlements, pilgrimage sites and educational establishments in Europe, Eurasia, North Africa and the M...
This project asks four questions: How are international actors supporting local groups to advance LGBTI rights in developing countries? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the different form...
How has the simultaneous development of financial markets and the welfare state influenced the political choices made by state, business and labor unions with regard to the Dutch pension system?