Plural policing during health emergencies and natural disasters

The presence of multiple providers of policing during an existential crisis can accelerate the pluralisation of policing and exacerbate trends of securitisation. How can multi-actor policing activities be managed in crisis situations to counterbalance this likely drift to excessive securitisation?

Bad apples, bad barrels and bad barrel makers: Understanding ‘warrior culture’ in the Australian elite forces

A four-year landmark inquiry uncovered credible evidence of 39 unlawful executions and two cases of torture, committed by the Australian special forces in Afghanistan. This blog post explains the conduct of the soldiers from an ethical leadership perspective.

Will India negotiate in cyberspace?

From 10 to 12 November 2020, The Hague Program for Cyber Norms organized its third annual conference on cyber norms. Arindrajit Basu and Karthik Nachiappan are the winners of this year’s best paper award and introduce their winning paper in this blog post.

The role of the Internet in transgressive behaviour: New tool or a new phenomenon?

Online education during COVID-19: Force majeure or the new frontier?

When COVID-19 forced the university to temporarily close in March, teaching staff had just one week to switch gears and get acquainted with online teaching. In the past six months, Security Studies tutors have familiarized themselves with all that online teaching has to offer, for better or worse.

The life and times of a BVD official: Ad de Jonge 1919-2002

Based on: Op de bres voor de rechtsstaat in het Verzet en bij de BVD. Ad de Jonge 1919-2002. Amsterdam: Panchaud (2020). 551 pages. To be published on 02 December 2020. [In defense of democracy: in the Resistance and with the security service BVD. Ad de Jonge 1919-2002.].

How COVID-19 exposes the vulnerability of public leaders, and what science can do about it

If COVID-19 teaches us one thing, it is that today's crises are insidious and unpredictable. This poses new challenges for public leaders, who constantly have to seek a balance between "doing too much, too soon" or "doing too little, too late".

Improving the EU Response to Pandemics: key lessons from other crisis management domains

Urban Homicide in the Netherlands

Data from the Dutch Homicide Monitor shows that the scope and nature of homicide differs between the metropolitan areas of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague, and the rest of the country.