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What role should universities play in society? In politics?

University Social Responsibility is a recent concept. We know about Corporate Social Responsibility as an attempt to take the hard edges off free market capitalism, but USR?

Prof. dr. G.P. Scott-Smith • July 04, 2022

Word from the Chair: Ten Years of the BA International Studies

2022 is a major anniversary year. In September 2012 the first students signed up for the BA International Studies in The Hague. The expectation was that the new programme should ideally attract around 250 students a year.

Prof. dr. G.P. Scott-Smith • July 04, 2022

Word from the Chair: Everyone is a gamechanger

On 21 April the Four Freedoms Awards were presented in Middelburg. Four what? I hear you say. The ‘thinking person’s Oscars’, or the ‘poor person’s Nobel’, the FFs draw their inspiration from Franklin Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms speech’ on 6 January 1941.

Prof. dr. G.P. Scott-Smith • July 04, 2022

On Regions, Hierarchies, World Order, and a Vital Question

During a guest lecture, a student challenges Giles Scott-Smith to review a Eurocentric approach to International Relations. This is what the program of International Studies is and should be about.

Prof. dr. G.P. Scott-Smith • January 31, 2022

Digital Education: Fast and Furious?

A few years ago I made a MOOC - a Massive Open-Access Online Course – for Leiden University on the Coursera platform. Its called The Rooseveltian Century, re-interpreting US history in the 20th century through the lives of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.

Prof. dr. G.P. Scott-Smith • April 08, 2020