The South China Sea dispute is often portrayed as an archetypal case of an overbearing great power bullying its weaker neighbours. A common kneejerk reaction to this...
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has started the project Maps in the Crowd. Nearly 1,100 digitized maps of the Caribbean will be unlocked with help from visitors, students and others who are interested....
Sometimes fiction tells the truth and history perpetuates a fiction. This blog tells us about how history has been used to serve the creation of a national mythology, while fiction has allowed a ...
Article by one of our researchers, Sarthak Bagchi, on a small comparative study of Indian and Dutch election campaign: 'From social media use to anti-islamic rhetoric, similarities in Indian and Dutch ...
Rosemarijn Hoefte has been appointed at the University of Amsterdam as Professor in the History of Suriname since 1873 in comparative perspective. This appointment will be for 0,2 fte. ...
'Politik ekstrem kanan: Brexit, Trump, Wilders, dan Pilkada Jakarta?', by Liston Siregard. An article on the website of BBC Indonesia on Brexit, Trump, Wilders and the Jakarta elections with an interview with Ward...
Why do criminals enter politics in the world’s largest democracy? Why do parties nominate candidates with criminal backgrounds? And why do voters support these candidates? Sarthak Bagchi delves into some...
In het Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland is een hoofdstuk door Rosemarijn Hoefte gewijd aan Grace Howard: 'Howard, Grace Ruth (1869-1968)'. Grace Ruth Howard, vooral bekend als Grace Schneiders-...
Edited by Emmanuel Blanchard, Marieke Bloembergen (KITLV) and Amandine Lauro. Colonial security strategies and the postcolonial vestiges they left both in the global ...
By KITLV researcher Chris Chaplin. As Jakarta heads to the polls, Chaplin argues that evoking Islamic identity and the opportunistic use of religious symbols in this election has set a dangerous precedent for ...