Telephone number:	+31 (0)70 800 9570
E-Mail:	c.y.e.boot@cdh.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit Campus Den Haag, Centre for Terrorism & Counterterrorism
Office Address:	Campus Den Haag Postbus 13228 2501 EE Den Haag

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Fields of interest

- National security
- Terrorism and counterterrorism
- Military history
- Performativity / discourse analysis
- German political history
- International Relations

Research

My dissertation is part of the VIDI-Project of Dr. Beatrice de Graaf, entitled “Enemies of the state: the making of the national security state, 1945-2001”. This project investigates the construction of the national security state between 1945 and 2001 in the United States, the Netherlands and West-Germany (and Italy, Beatrice de Graaf), from both an international and a comparative perspective. The point of departure of this project is that in these postwar national security states, there were no ‘objective’ threats, but that they were constructed. In my dissertation, I will investigate the role of the military force in the construction of these threats and enemy images.  

Curriculum Vitae

2003-2006
Utrecht University, Bachelor in History

2006-2008
Utrecht University, Research Master “History: Cities, States, and Citizenship” (in English), cum laude

2007-2008
Humboldt-Universität Berlin, continuation of the Research Master with a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

From 2009-present                             
Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Campus Den Haag, Leiden University), PhD Student