Campus The Hague is an institution for university education and scientific research apart of Leiden University, located in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

. The teaching and research at Campus The Hague focuses on politics, public administration and international law, urban issues, and health.

History

Campus The Hague was founded in 1998 as a partnership between the university and the municipality of The Hague.

Education

All seven faculties of the university are active in The Hague, and around 20 per cent of the total student body of the university attend this campus. The faculty Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) is exclusively located in The Hague. Campus The Hague offers courses on several areas, including

public administration Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit est ...

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

and government. In 2015

Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...

opened a branch at Campus The Hague, in the Wijnhaven Building, offering a master's degree in Engineering and Policy Analysis. In 2016,

Leiden University Medical Center Leiden University Medical Center (Dutch: ''Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum'') or LUMC is the university hospital affiliated with Leiden University, of which it forms the medical faculty. It is located in Leiden, Netherlands. LUMC is a modern un ...

founded an additional branch at Campus The Hague, with research, teaching and a training program for

GPs The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...

. As part of its facilities,

Leiden University Library Leiden University Libraries is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. It is regarded as a significant place in the development of European culture: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the developme ...

opened a library at Campus The Hague.

Research

The research branch of Campus The Hague focuses on management, international law and government. It includes many research institutes.

Institute of Security and Global Affairs

The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) was created in 2016, when the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (CTC) and the Centre for Global Affairs were combined. It is one of three research institutes within the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), and focuses on

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. Within this issue, its main themes are

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

and political violence,

cybersecurity Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, t ...

, governance of

crises A crisis ( : crises; : critical) is either any event or period that will (or might) lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, or all of society. Crises are negative changes in the human or environmental affair ...

, and

diplomacy Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. ...

and

global affairs International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such a ...

. IGSA focuses on multidisciplinary research and education within the field of

security studies __NOTOC__ Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic sub-field within the wider discipline of international relations that studies organized violence, military conflict, national security, and international ...

, and describes its approach as

glocal Glocalization or Glocalisation (a portmanteau of ''globalization'' and '' localism'') is the "simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies in contemporary social, political, and economic systems." The notion of gloca ...

, meaning that "the local, national, transnational and global impact are studied and analysed in conjunction with each other".

Other research institutes

* Centre for Innovation * Centre for Modern Urban Studies (MUS) * Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) * Dual PhD Centre *

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies Leiden Law School is the law school, and one of the seven faculties, of Leiden University. Teaching and research in the school take place across campuses in Leiden and The Hague in the Netherlands. Instruction in law began with the university ...

* Institute of Public Administration * Leiden Leadership Centre * Leiden Risk & Regulation Lab *

Leiden University College The Hague Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is a small interdisciplinary Liberal Arts and Sciences honours college part of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University. The institution's curriculums focus on tackling global c ...

* Montesquieu Institute, which includes the Parliamentary Documentation Centre (PDC UL)

Buildings of Campus The Hague

File:Campus The Hague - University College The Hague (2017) - IMG 2051.jpg, The building housing the University College, near Centraal Station File:Campus The Hague, Schouwburgstraat building (2017-12-10) img 03.jpg, Campus building at Schouwburgstraat File:Campus Den Haag Universiteit Leiden 04.jpg, Wijnhaven, the Campus building at Turfmarkt File:Turfmarkt, The Hague (2017) IMG 3256.jpg, Beehive Student Centre, opened in 2018 File:Den Haag - Lange Voorhout 86.JPG, The Parliamentary Documentation Centre (PDC UL) is on the

Lange Voorhout The Lange Voorhout () is a street in the old city centre of The Hague, Netherlands. It is L-shaped and runs from Kneuterdijk in the west to Toernooiveld in the east, reaching approximately in length. History In the Middle Ages, the Lange Voorh ...

References

External links

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Leiden University

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