'Informal Politics Is Real Politics; A Research Blog on the Machinations of Power in Asia and beyond'. By Ward Berenschot. How do governments actually work? Informal politics – the ways in which people draw on personal ...
'Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia; the ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony' is the first of three publications by Matthew Bishop (University ...
Earthquakes resulting from the extraction of natural gas for decades on end are now taking a heavy toll on the people of Groningen in the north of Holland. Typically, according to Willem van der Molen, the Dutch government reacts to the demand...
Chris Chaplin reflects on recent debates about radical Islam in Indonesia and warns against the use of simplistic labels. Islam in Indonesia has recently been in media headlines for all the wrong reasons, as the ...
KITLV researcher Chris Chaplin gives his opinion on the Jakarta bombing at Aljazeera.com: 'The threats to Indonesia after the Jakarta attack. Let us not overstate the significance of ISIL in Indonesia'...
In the second semester of the academic year 2015-2016 KITLV organizes, for the 30th time, the interuniversitary course Introduction to Caribbean Studies. Participation ...
On Thursday 21 January, between 8:00 and 9:30 pm, KITLV researchers Dr. Wouter Veenendaal and Prof. Gert Oostindie will present the results of their opinion survey on Saba. The presentation will take place at the ...
Between September and November 2015, the KITLV executed a large-scale opinion survey on all six Caribbean islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On each island, a random sample of...
For the research project 'Shades of Clientelism: A comparative study of Indonesia’s patronage democracy' we are looking for a research-intern. We are looking for ...
Lotte Akkerman, Kimberley Bootsma, and Bente de Leede reflect on a public symposium held at the National Archives about the KITLV project Dutch Military Operations in Indonesia, 1945-1950. They explain that...