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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.

Resilience in the Time of Covid: planning the urban future

Changes to urban planning could provide the key to the long-term protection of our communities and ways of life. But what do these plans offer to bolster the resilience of our urban areas in times of crisis?

Dutch spy chiefs: a new book by Paul Abels

Special Professor of Governance of Intelligence and Security Services, Paul Abels has brought out a new book, called Spionkoppen: spy chiefs. A prosopographic study into the leadership of Dutch security services from 1949 until the present, it presents eleven portraits of Dutch spy chiefs.