Universiteit Leiden (UL) • crisis and security management

Graded with an 8.3. This final paper for the course TCT Governing Wicked Problems from the CSM program analyses based on a future scenario, the risks and benefits of conducting targeted strikes against the TTP, applying the Batelle Approach. When written, this paper was one of the select few that received a high passing grade and was no resit. Main feedback: Well done in providing a clear overview of various facets related to the group & its characteristics. However, it would have been good...

Graded with a 7.1. This final paper for the SRoL course from the CSM program is titled: Are the sick hiding the enemies? Why Israel’s hospital bombings are violating the Rule of Law. It highlights the tensions between adhering to the Rule of Law and the use of force. Main feedback: Make a better distinction between the dilemma and the synthesis. That will also help in making a difference between a description of what is happening and your own analysis based on academic literature and theor...

A document containing all lecture notes for the course Security and the Rule of Law, excluding lecture 3. The document also contains summaries of the following course literature: Waldron (2023), Sanders (2018), Wilmhurst (2021), Mavronicola (2021)

Lecture notes of lectures 2, 3, and 6 for the course SAIC

Graded with a 7.6. Final paper for the course SAIC from the CSM program. This paper is a SWOC/T Analysis Of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Main feedback: multiple missed opportunities to engage with course literature

Graded with a 7.3. This final paper for the course SCGW identifies and discusses manifestations of ontological security in the manifesto of Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant. Feedback received with grade: Good, solid paper, showing good understanding of the main concepts and theories on ontological (in)security. Drivers well distilled from literature, good operationalization and analysis. Only the ‘reflection’-part is in need of some improvement. What we were looking for was a critica...

All lectures notes of the course Security Challenges in a Globalizing World from the CSM program

All lecture notes from the CSM course Extremism in a Global Context, as taught in 2023/2024.

A complete final assignment for the course Extremism in a Global Context. Assignment consists of a literature review on the benefits and limitations of the Dutch P/CVE approach, and was graded with an 8.3

Summary of *SOME* the reading materials for the final exam (2023) for Security Challenges in a Globalizing World. INCLUDES notes from (Total: 25 pages): Catarina Kinnvall & Jennifer Mitzen’s article (2020) “Anxiety, fear, and ontological security in world politics: thinking with and beyond Giddens”. Christopher S. Browning’s article (2018) “Brexit, existential anxiety and ontological (in)security”. Chris Rossdale’s article (2015) “Enclosing Critique: The Limits of Ontolo...