Prof. J.A. Verbeek (Bertjan)

Professor - International Relations

Contact

bertjan.verbeek@ru.nl
024-3612995

Visiting address

Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Professor Bertjan Verbeek carries out a large scale international comparative study on (crisis) decision-making in foreign policy. Within this field, he is an expert in the following areas:

the influence of domestic politics, especially populism, on decision-making;
the role of international organizations during crises;
the learning ability of governments during and after crises.

The study focuses on decisions of military deployment (for instance, in the Iraq war) and decisions made during currency crises.

Tags: war and peace, foreign policy, military interventions, crisis decision making, international relations, international organizations

Publications

Key publications

Verbeek, J.A. & Zaslove, A.S. (in press). How International Politics Helps Explain Domestic Politics: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Contemporary Populism. In D. Cadier, A. Chryssogelos & S. Destradi (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy (Routledge Handbooks) (pp. 104-122). London: Routledge Full text
Verbeek, J.A. (2024). Dutch foreign policy between domestic and international pressures. In S. de Lange, T. Louwerse, P. 't Hart & C. van Ham (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics (pp. 765-781). Oxford: Oxford University Press Full text
Chryssogelos, A., Jenne, E.K., LaRoche, C.D., Verbeek, J.A., Zaslove, A.S., Destradi, S., Cadier, D., Coticchia, F., Donelli, F. & Lequesne, C. (2023). New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations. International Studies Review, 25 (4):viad035. doi: 10.1093/isr/viad035 Full text
Gardell, E. & Verbeek, J.A. (2021). Key actors in the management of crises: international and regional organizations. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1499
Kok, N. & Verbeek, J.A. (2020). Individual leadership and effective small state foreign policy: Luxembourg and the seat of the European institutions. Acta Politica, 55 (1), 67-85. doi: 10.1057/s41269-018-0099-8 Full text
Verbeek, J.A. & Zaslove, A.S. (2019). Has Populism Eroded the Quality of European Democracy? Insights From Italy and The Netherlands. In K Weyland & R.L. Madrid (Eds.), When Democracy Trumps Populism. European and Latin American Lessons for the United States (pp. 84-109). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press doi: 10.1017/9781108692793 Full text
Olsson, E. & Verbeek, J.A. (2018). International organisations and crisis management: do crises enable or constrain IO autonomy? Journal of International Relations and Development, 21 (2), 275-299. doi: 10.1057/s41268-016-0071-z Full text
Verbeek, J.A. & Zaslove, A.S. (2017). Populism and Foreign Policy. In C.R. Kaltwasser, P.A. Taggart, P.O. Espejo & P. Ostiguy (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Populism (pp. 384-405). Oxford: Oxford University Press doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.15 Full text
Verbeek, J.A. & Zaslove, A.S. (2016). Italy: a case of mutating populism? Democratization, 23 (2), 304-323. doi: 10.1080/13510347.2015.1076213 Full text
Verbeek, J.A. & Zaslove, A.S. (2015). The impact of populist radical right parties on foreign policy: the Northern League as a junior coalition partner in the Berlusconi Governments. European Political Science Review, 7 (4), 525-546. doi: 10.1017/S1755773914000319 Full text

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Bertjan Verbeek researches decision making and crisis decision making in foreign policy. Within this field, he focuses on the influence of domestic policy on the foreign policy of states and the role of international organisations during crises.