Projects
Utility and Balance: Political Economy and International Law in 19thCentury Belgium KU Leuven
This research project revolves around the role played by political economy in the legitimization of public international law in Belgium in the 19th century, as well as the formalization of an epistemic community of economists and jurists. This research ultimately aims to identify the value systems (denominational, philosophical, ideological) that were used by this community. At the beginning of the 19th century, political economy was ...
The transformation of urban political elites. The case of sixteenth-century Ghent. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
On 'd'oorloghs wree Canonnen': Peeter Snayers (1592-1667) and the development of the topographical battle scene. The representation of war and peace within the artistic, political and socio-economic dynamics of 17th-century Brussels. KU Leuven
“Political Assassination in the Late Roman Empire” - Towards a new approach to studying state power and weakness in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean Ghent University
Modern scholarship has examined political violence in the Late Roman Empire (late fourth to early sixth centuries CE) mainly as the result of mass migration processes, or as the self-evident outcome of imperial disintegration in the western Mediterranean and its hinterland. Instead, my project investigates this era’s increase in murder (in sharp contrast to the late third and fourth centuries) in both western and eastern spheres of the Late ...
The Political Theory of American Populism KU Leuven
‘Populism’ is the central concept of our political era. Winning majorities, ousting incumbents, attacking courts and even locking up opponents, parties speaking on behalf of “the people” have flourished in the past decade. Yet these ‘populist’ parties share little with the movement that invented the term – the American Populists of the late nineteenth-century. Few academic fields rival the recent output of work on populism, and yet political ...
Craft Guilds under pressure: political strategies between corporations and city council in 16th century Antwerp. University of Antwerp
Doubtful War: Political and Legal Responses to Foreign Civil Wars (1815-1875). KU Leuven
Civil war is among the most heavily interpreted and fiercely discussed concept in international history, international law and politics, and contemporary public opinion. This project entails a legal and conceptual analysis of legal responses by third states to civil wars in the period 1815-1875, which was crucial in the development of modern law relating to the subject, on the basis of relevant state practice and doctrine. It determines that ...