The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humani ...
is an independent and international graduate school of policy-oriented critical social science. ISS was established in 1952 by Dutch universities and the Netherlands Ministry of Education. The institution is located in
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The Hague
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, also known as 'The World's Legal Capital'.
Between 300 and 400 students are enrolled in the ISS programmes, mostly in the Master and PhD programme in Development Studies. In addition to its teaching and research, ISS is active in the fields of advisory work and institutional capacity building projects. ISS alumni come from over 150 different countries.
History
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ISS was founded in 1952 by the
Dutch government
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to assist in the training and further education of professionals, especially, but not only, from developing countries. This was one way in which the Netherlands sought to develop good relationships with intellectuals and policy makers in partner countries, including and beyond former
Dutch colonies.
Queen Juliana
Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980.
Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. S ...
offered to house ISS in the
Noordeinde Palace
Noordeinde Palace ( nl, Paleis Noordeinde, ) is one of the three official palaces of the Dutch royal family. Located in The Hague in the province of South Holland, it has been used as the official workplace of King Willem-Alexander since 2013. ...
in The Hague in 1951. At first, ISS was perceived as a teaching institute, although by 1954 ISS was aiming to become research and teaching driven.
Due to the role ISS played in creating the
European Association of Development Institutes (EADI), and its focus on research and academic quality, the Institute received its formal rights to award the PhD in the 1970s.
From 1993 onward, the ISS has been located in the former headquarters of the Netherlands Post and Telecommunications (the PTT) on the Kortenaerkade.
In 2009 ISS became part of
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humani ...
. The partnership was carefully negotiated, due to ISS wanting to remain fairly autonomous and to retain its mission.
For many years, the main funding body for ISS Masters students was the
Dutch government
The politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy, and a decentralised unitary state.''Civil service systems in Western Europe'' edited by A. J. G. M. Bekk ...
, through the NFP programme (now the OKP programme) administered by the Nuffic in cooperation with Dutch Embassies. ISS students have either OKP funding, another scholarship or private funding.
Academic profile
Programmes and degrees
ISS provides education in the social sciences to postgraduate professionals, mostly from developing countries and countries in transition. The courses are all taught in English and cover a number of different fields, including development economics, migration, public policy, governance, gender, agriculture, food, population, social security, children and youth, and human rights.
Doctoral programme
The institute offers a four-year
Doctoral programme which leads to a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies. PhD researchers are embedded into the research programmes at ISS, and are usually involved in one of four research groups: Civic Innovation, Development Economics, Political Ecology or Governance, Law and Social Justice. Currently there are about 125 enrolled PhD researchers and ISS has awarded over 150 PhD degrees since the programme was established. Within the Netherlands, ISS participates in the national doctoral research school CERES, and within Erasmus University in the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Master programmes
ISS offers a 15.5-month Master in Development Studies with various Majors and postgraduate diploma programmes; there is also a two-year joint master's degree in Public Policy which requires students to study at ISS or at the
Central European University
Central European University (CEU) is a private research university accredited in Austria, Hungary, and the United States, with campuses in Vienna and Budapest. The university is known for its highly intensive programs in the social science ...
in the first academic year, and at the
University of York or the
Institute on International Relations in Barcelona (IBEI) in the second year.
The ISS Master's degree in Development Studies is accredited by the Netherlands Flemish accreditation organisation
NVAO The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders ( nl, Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie; NVAO) is the independent educational accreditation organisation for higher education institutions in the Netherlands and Flanders. It wa ...
and provides eligibility for entry to PhD programmes in the Netherlands and other countries. In 2010 the ISS Master programme received the 'internationalization as a distinctive quality feature' accreditation from the NVAO.
ISS also offers various joint programmes with academic partners. In some programmes students take part of the programme elsewhere and part of the programme at ISS in The Hague. In other programmes ISS staff travel to the partner institute for contribute to teaching. Postgraduate diploma programmes are also offered catering to the needs of young and mid-career professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge in a particular field related to their research or occupation. All degrees are recognized internationally and by Dutch legislation on higher education.
Research and publications
ISS research is clustered in the research programme Global Development and Social Justice. Much of the research carried out in the institute is available through publications online, either as journal articles or in the ISS Working Papers.
The ISS Working Paper series consists mainly of work in progress; the best, award-winning dissertations by Masters students are also published in this way. As well as seminars by staff and PhD participants, visiting researchers and invited experts come to speak at ISS on a regular basis. The wider diplomatic and academic community is often invited to major debates and other events.
Library
ISS has a specialised library available for the use of ISS staff and students and for visitors. The library focuses on the social sciences (development studies) with a predominant emphasis on developing countries and countries in transition. The collection comprises approximately 100,000 books, 450 current subscriptions to journals, a reference collection, as well as on-line and CD-ROM databases. The library also has a substantial collection of report material, much of it "grey" literature.
Rectors
Since its foundation the institute has had twelve rectors.
*Egbert de Vries (1956–1966)
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Jan Glastra van Loon (1966–1973)
*Chris van Nieuwenhuyze (1973–1975)
*Jos Hilhorst (1975–1976)
Louis Emmerij(1976–1985)
Charles Cooper(1985)
*Dirk J (Dik) Wolfson (1986–1990)
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Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt
Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt (2 April 1938 – 18 November 2014) was a Dutch politician and women and development studies scholar. She served as a member of the Senate (Netherlands), Senate of the Netherlands between 1995 and 2003 for the Labour ...
(1990–1995)
*Henk van Roosmalen (1995)
*Hans Opschoor (1996–2004)
*Louk de la Rive Box (2005–2010)
*Leo de Haan (2010-2015)
*Inge Hutter (since 2015)
ISS Alumni
Over 13,000 students from more than 160 countries have studied at ISS. These former students create the international ISS alumni community.
Notable alumni
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Raqiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla
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Zoran Jolevski
Zoran Jolevski ( mk, Зоран Јолевски; born 16 July 1959) is a Macedonian diplomat and the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Macedonia. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Defense, he served as Macedonia's Ambassador to ...
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Dr. David Francis
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Samuel Kofi Woods
Samuel Kofi Woods (born May 1,1964) is a Liberian human rights activist, journalist, politician and academic. In 1994, he founded the Forefront Organization, which documented human rights abuses during the Second Liberian Civil War.
Biography
W ...
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Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong
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Ramji Raghavan
Ramji Raghavan is a social innovator and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairperson of Agastya International Foundation and Chairperson of the Navam Innovation Foundation, both Non Profit Organizations. Ramji served as a member of thCentr ...
*
Kasit Piromya
Kasit Piromya ( th, กษิต ภิรมย์; ; born 15 December 1944 in Thonburi) is a Thai diplomat, Democrat Party politician, and former People's Alliance for Democracy ("Yellow Shirts") activist. He was Foreign Minister of Thailand ...
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Tarik Ahsan
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Rafael Pardo Rueda
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Teferra Wolde-Semait
Teferra Wolde-Semait ( gez, ተፈራ ወልደሰማዕት; 11 September 1938 – 25 June 2013) was an Ethiopian politician who has served as Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (Ethiopia), Ministry of Finance and Economic Development ...
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Ashok Mitra
Notable honorary Fellows
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Dattatreya Gopal Karve 1962
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Peter Kuenstler Peter Kuenstler (December 1919 – 16 November 2010) was a British civil servant and consultant in international social affairs and development. Kuenstler was born in Hampstead, London in December 1919. After preparing at the Hall School and R ...
1962
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Oskar Lange
Oskar Ryszard Lange (27 July 1904 – 2 October 1965) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is best known for advocating the use of market pricing tools in socialist systems and providing a model of market socialism. He responded to the econo ...
1962
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Eugen Pusić 1962
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Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan (1902–1985) was an economist of Jewish origin born in Kraków, who was trained in the Austrian tradition under in Vienna. His early contributions to economics were in pure economic theory – on marginal utility, ...
1962
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Jan Tinbergen
Jan Tinbergen (; ; 12 April 19039 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis o ...
1962
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Hans Singer
Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer (1910–2006) was a German-born British development economist best known for the Singer–Prebisch thesis, which states that the terms of trade move against producers of primary products. He is one of the primary figure ...
1977
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Raúl Prebisch
Raúl Prebisch (April 17, 1901April 29, 1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He became the executi ...
1977
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Manfred Lachs
Manfred H. Lachs (April 21, 1914 in Stanislav, Austrian Galicia – January 14, 1993 in The Hague) was a Polish diplomat, Judge of the International Court of Justice, and jurist who greatly influenced the development of international law after Wo ...
1982
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Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
1982
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Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Rodolfo Stavenhagen (29 August 1932 – 5 November 2016) was a German-born Mexican sociologist and anthropologist who specialized in the study of human rights and the political relations between indigenous peoples and states. He was a professor-r ...
1982
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Prince Claus of the Netherlands
Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg (born Klaus-Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gerd von Amsberg; 6 September 1926 – 6 October 2002) was Prince consort of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until his death in 2002 as the husband ...
1988
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Subrata Roy Chowdhury 1992
* Hans Linneman 1992
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Benno Ndulu 1997
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Mamphela Ramphele
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (; born 28 December 1947) is a South African politician, an activist against apartheid, a medical doctor, an academic and businesswoman. She was a partner of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, with whom she had two chil ...
1997
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Jan Pronk
Johannes Pieter "Jan" Pronk Jr. (; born 16 March 1940) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party (PvdA) and activist.
Pronk studied Economics at the Rotterdam School of Economics obtaining a Master of Economics degree and ...
2002
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Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, ...
2002
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Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''Whit ...
2002
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Martha Nussbaum 2006
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Richard Jolly 2007
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Bina Agarwal
Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. She has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; ...
2007
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Jan Breman 2009
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Robert Chambers 2013
References
Notes
External links
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Educational institutions established in 1952