Niels Van Willigen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Van Willigen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Willigen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN WILLIGEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7940-0717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why, how and to whom is the European Union signalling in the Indo-Pacific? Understanding the European Union’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific in the epicentre of multipolar competition
In September 2021, the European Union officially launched its Indo-Pacific strategy. Its announcement raised a series of questions over the nature, objectives, and audience of the European Union’s strategic communication. In addition, there were some doubts over whether the European Union could credibly and effectively signal as an autonomous actor in a distant geopolitical region. This article aims to address these questions by building on theor…
How do regional parties influence foreign policy? Insights from multilevel coalitional bargaining in India
When and how do regional parties influence foreign policy in federal democracies with multiparty coalition governments? The existing literature has focused on situations of foreign policy disagreements between subnational parties and the central government in multinational states. By contrast, we argue that under varying conditions, central governments either decide to accommodate the preferences of small regional parties when designing foreign p…
Business Diplomacy from an IR Perspective
Coalitions and Foreign-Policy-Making
This article makes two arguments. First, it seeks to warn foreign policy analysis scholars against directly applying models and theories developed in the context of West European countries to other regions such as the Global South. More specifically, we highlight some of the particularities present in cases from the Global South that might limit any direct attempt to apply hypothesised mechanisms derived from the existing coalition foreign-policy…
Coalition Governance and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
This article explores processes of coalition governance in foreign policy. Specifically, it argues that such processes are shaped by two interrelated dimensions of coalition set-up: first, the allocation of the foreign ministry to the senior or a junior coalition partner and, second, the degree of policy discretion which is delegated to that ministry. Bringing these two dimensions together, the article distinguishes four types of coalition arrang…
A Dutch return to UN peacekeeping
This article covers the Dutch role in UN peacekeeping. The Netherlands has a long tradition of political and military involvement in UN peacekeeping. Like other European countries, its participation decreased considerably from the end of the 1990s onwards. The Dutch only ‘returned’ in 2014 when they delivered a substantial number of troops for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Mali. This art…
Analytic Eclecticism and EU Foreign Policy (In)action
Twelve years after the European Union (EU) began to deploy crisis management operations, the underlying drivers are still disputed. This state of theory is partly due to the staleness of many theoretical debates in international relations (IR). In response, a number of scholars have recently called for analytic eclecticism. This paper sets out to provide an eclectic framework for the purpose of analysing EU foreign policy action. It argues that t…
Peacebuilding and International Administration
This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to what extent they have been successful in doing so. In the 1990s, large and ambitious international administrations were established to administer territ…
Peacebuilding and International Administration
This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in state-building. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to what extent they have been successful in doing so
International administration and institutional autonomy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have been under international administration since 1995 and 1999, respectively. The international administrations were aimed at building autonomous political institutions which are able to peacefully resolve political conflicts. Instead, institutions were created which heavily depended on the international administrations for their functioning. The absence of autonomous domestic political institutions can be expl…
Evaluating Diplomacy
This article presents a model to evaluate national diplomatic interventions in multilateral decision-making arenas. The performance-driven evaluation model that is commonly used in new public management settings does not do justice to the trade of diplomacy as a distinctive profession. This article argues that when evaluating diplomatic interventions in multilateral settings the process-driven nature of decision-making must be taken into account.…
Coalition Governance and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
This article explores processes of coalition governance in foreign policy. Specifically, it argues that such processes are shaped by two interrelated dimensions of coalition set-up: first, the allocation of the foreign ministry to the senior or a junior coalition partner and, second, the degree of policy discretion which is delegated to that ministry. Bringing these two dimensions together, the article distinguishes four types of coalition arrang…
Why, how and to whom is the European Union signalling in the Indo-Pacific? Understanding the European Union’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific in the epicentre of multipolar competition
In September 2021, the European Union officially launched its Indo-Pacific strategy. Its announcement raised a series of questions over the nature, objectives, and audience of the European Union’s strategic communication. In addition, there were some doubts over whether the European Union could credibly and effectively signal as an autonomous actor in a distant geopolitical region. This article aims to address these questions by building on theor…
Coalitions and Foreign-Policy-Making
This article makes two arguments. First, it seeks to warn foreign policy analysis scholars against directly applying models and theories developed in the context of West European countries to other regions such as the Global South. More specifically, we highlight some of the particularities present in cases from the Global South that might limit any direct attempt to apply hypothesised mechanisms derived from the existing coalition foreign-policy…
International administration and institutional autonomy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have been under international administration since 1995 and 1999, respectively. The international administrations were aimed at building autonomous political institutions which are able to peacefully resolve political conflicts. Instead, institutions were created which heavily depended on the international administrations for their functioning. The absence of autonomous domestic political institutions can be expl…
Analytic Eclecticism and EU Foreign Policy (In)action
Twelve years after the European Union (EU) began to deploy crisis management operations, the underlying drivers are still disputed. This state of theory is partly due to the staleness of many theoretical debates in international relations (IR). In response, a number of scholars have recently called for analytic eclecticism. This paper sets out to provide an eclectic framework for the purpose of analysing EU foreign policy action. It argues that t…
How do regional parties influence foreign policy? Insights from multilevel coalitional bargaining in India
When and how do regional parties influence foreign policy in federal democracies with multiparty coalition governments? The existing literature has focused on situations of foreign policy disagreements between subnational parties and the central government in multinational states. By contrast, we argue that under varying conditions, central governments either decide to accommodate the preferences of small regional parties when designing foreign p…
A Dutch return to UN peacekeeping
This article covers the Dutch role in UN peacekeeping. The Netherlands has a long tradition of political and military involvement in UN peacekeeping. Like other European countries, its participation decreased considerably from the end of the 1990s onwards. The Dutch only ‘returned’ in 2014 when they delivered a substantial number of troops for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Mali. This art…
Evaluating Diplomacy
This article presents a model to evaluate national diplomatic interventions in multilateral decision-making arenas. The performance-driven evaluation model that is commonly used in new public management settings does not do justice to the trade of diplomacy as a distinctive profession. This article argues that when evaluating diplomatic interventions in multilateral settings the process-driven nature of decision-making must be taken into account.…
International administration and institutional autonomy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have been under international administration since 1995 and 1999, respectively. The international administrations were aimed at building autonomous political institutions which are able to peacefully resolve political conflicts. Instead, institutions were created which heavily depended on the international administrations for their functioning. The absence of autonomous domestic political institutions can be expl…
Peacebuilding and International Administration
This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to what extent they have been successful in doing so. In the 1990s, large and ambitious international administrations were established to administer territ…
Peacebuilding and International Administration
This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in state-building. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to what extent they have been successful in doing so
Analytic Eclecticism and EU Foreign Policy (In)action
Twelve years after the European Union (EU) began to deploy crisis management operations, the underlying drivers are still disputed. This state of theory is partly due to the staleness of many theoretical debates in international relations (IR). In response, a number of scholars have recently called for analytic eclecticism. This paper sets out to provide an eclectic framework for the purpose of analysing EU foreign policy action. It argues that t…
Coalitions and Foreign-Policy-Making
This article makes two arguments. First, it seeks to warn foreign policy analysis scholars against directly applying models and theories developed in the context of West European countries to other regions such as the Global South. More specifically, we highlight some of the particularities present in cases from the Global South that might limit any direct attempt to apply hypothesised mechanisms derived from the existing coalition foreign-policy…
Coalition Governance and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
This article explores processes of coalition governance in foreign policy. Specifically, it argues that such processes are shaped by two interrelated dimensions of coalition set-up: first, the allocation of the foreign ministry to the senior or a junior coalition partner and, second, the degree of policy discretion which is delegated to that ministry. Bringing these two dimensions together, the article distinguishes four types of coalition arrang…
A Dutch return to UN peacekeeping
This article covers the Dutch role in UN peacekeeping. The Netherlands has a long tradition of political and military involvement in UN peacekeeping. Like other European countries, its participation decreased considerably from the end of the 1990s onwards. The Dutch only ‘returned’ in 2014 when they delivered a substantial number of troops for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Mali. This art…
Business Diplomacy from an IR Perspective
How do regional parties influence foreign policy? Insights from multilevel coalitional bargaining in India
When and how do regional parties influence foreign policy in federal democracies with multiparty coalition governments? The existing literature has focused on situations of foreign policy disagreements between subnational parties and the central government in multinational states. By contrast, we argue that under varying conditions, central governments either decide to accommodate the preferences of small regional parties when designing foreign p…
Why, how and to whom is the European Union signalling in the Indo-Pacific? Understanding the European Union’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific in the epicentre of multipolar competition
In September 2021, the European Union officially launched its Indo-Pacific strategy. Its announcement raised a series of questions over the nature, objectives, and audience of the European Union’s strategic communication. In addition, there were some doubts over whether the European Union could credibly and effectively signal as an autonomous actor in a distant geopolitical region. This article aims to address these questions by building on theor…
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