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Asser senior researcher Dr Berenice Boutin has received an Early Career Partnership Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She will receive € 10,000 to organise a meeting to expand interdisciplinary cooperation in order to gain n...

In cooperation with (inter)national partners such as, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, ICCT The Hague and OPCW, T.M.C. Asser will bring you four unique training courses in 2020. Sign up now to advance your career!   Covid-19 update Due to the coro...

Terrorism can occur in any country, at any time and at any place. Although most of the world is focused on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, April and May 2020 saw daily terrorist attacks across the globe. Knife attacks, bombings, attacks by drones and missiles ...

Since the spring of 2018, the Asser Institute has worked with the Hofstad Lyceum, a secondary school in The Hague with an enrolment of about 1,000. Within this framework, graduation-year students are offered the opportunity to do their mandatory thesis project...

Recently, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-Un made his first public appearance in weeks where he pledged to “further boost its nuclear capabilities”. Around the same time the Trump administration has discussed the US first nuclear test in decades. While t...