Latest UCM publications

Dekker, T. (Photographer). (2019). Democratie tussen regenten en populisten. Web publication/site, Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte.

Haar, R. (2019). Anxiety in the Age of Donald Trump. Elsevier.

Dekker, T. J. (2019). The 7 democratic virtues of liberal education. Maastricht: Maastricht University.

Haar, R. (2018). Verdwijnt het Amerikaanse leiderschap komend jaar? U.S. Foreign Policy after the Midterms. Elsevier.

Dekker, T. (2018). Just Wages, Desert, and Pay-What-You-Want Pricing. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 11(2), 144-162. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v11i2.336

Haar, R. (2018). Is America becoming less democratic? Observant, 7.

Haar, R. (2018). Is America becoming less democratic? Elsevier.

Lo, C., & Thomas, N. (2018). The Macrosecuritization of Antimicrobial Resistance in Asia. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 72(6), 567-583 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2018.1534939

Haar, R. (2018). Has the Democratic Party lost its ability to govern? Elsevier.

Smolka, M. (2018). The Meditating Brain in Context: Eliciting Ethical Reflections in Neuroscientific Meditation Research. In Responsible Research & Innovation and Future Making: Responsibility through Anticipation: Interdisciplinary International Graduate Summer School Donostia-San Sebastián.

Haar, R. (2018). Wat als Trumps kiezers de pijn gaan voelen? Elsevier.

Smolka, M. (Author). (2018). “Cosmonaut for a night”: The experiences of a Silver Santé volunteer. Web publication/site, Retrieved from https://silversantestudy.eu/points-of-view/

Dekker, T., & Korsten, G. (2018). lessen uit 20 jaar liberal arts colleges: suggesties vor beter bacheloronderwijs. Thema Hoger Onderwijs, 25(3), 67.

Smolka, M. (2018). Controversy in the Aesthetics of Religion: When religious studies go cognitive, visions on how to study religions clash. In Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST2018): Meetings: Making Science, Technology and Society Together Lancaster.

Haar, R. (2018). Does Putin Regret Helping Trump win the U.S. Presidency? Elsevier.

Smolka, M. (2018). The meditating brain in context: Eliciting ethical reflections on neuroscientific meditation research. In International Conference on Mindfulness 2018 Amsterdam.

Dekker, T. (2018). Burgerschapsonderwijs. De docent en het democratische gesprek. Liberale Reflectie, 6-10.

Haar, R. (2018). The Uber-Hawk is back: what impact will John Bolton have on U.S. Foreign Policy? Elsevier.

Schell – Leugers, J., & Schneider, T. (2018). Die Macht des Irrtums: Über die Ursachen und Auswirkungen von gerichtlichen Fehlurteilen. In-Mind Magazin (German Edition), 2.

Lo, C. (2018). Securitizing HIV/AIDS: A Game Changer in State-Societal Relations in China? Globalization and Health, 14(1), [50]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-018-0364-7

Haar, R. (2018). Is the time ripe for an EU army? Elsevier.

Haar, R. (2018). What impact does a sex scandal have on the president? Elsevier.

Haar, R. (2018). U.S. Policy on Syria: Why America is powerless in Syria. Elsevier.

Haar, R. (2018). The Precipitous Decline in Diplomacy. Elsevier.

Haar, R. (2018). Trump’s Global Reality Show: Why this toddler president is mesmerizing everyone. Elsevier.

Dekker, T. (2018). Liberal Arts Education: Systemic Opportunities & Educational Possibilities –: Lessons from the Netherlands. Universitätskolleg-Schriften, 23, 87-99.

Haar, R. (2018). America’s Firestorm on Sexual Harassment. Elsevier.

Haar, R. (2018). The Politicization of Morals: Why the Political Trenches in Washington are getting deeper and deeper. Elsevier.

Dengler, C., & Strunk, B. (2018). THE MONETIZED ECONOMY VERSUS CARE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: DEGROWTH PERSPECTIVES ON RECONCILING AN ANTAGONISM. Feminist Economics, 24(3), 160-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2017.1383620

Giernalczyk, W. (2018). The development of the multilateral trade regime: exploring institutional change. Maastricht: Proefschriftmaken.nl. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20181218wg

Vliegenthart, D. (2018). The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff: An Intellectual History of Anti-Intellectualism in Modern America. (Numen Book Series; Vol. 158). Leiden: Brill.

Haar, R. (2017). NATO Foreign Ministers December 2017 Meeting: What will emerge from NATO’s December meeting? Elsevier.

Haar, R. (Author). (2017). America’s Current Malaise. Web publication/site, Elsevier. Retrieved from https://www.elsevierweekblad.nl/americandreamers/blog/2017/11/americas-current-malaise-564861/

Haar, R. (2017). De kruiperigheid in Washington: Desensitized and Dispirited. Elsevier, 47(73), 48-49.

Moes, J. (2017). Imagining Europe: Identities, Geography, and Method.

Lo, C. (2017). China’s Rise and the U.S Pivot to Asia: The Implications of Trans-Pacific Partnership on the Regional Economic Architecture. In S. Fröhlich, & H. Loewen (Eds.), The Changing East Asian Security Landscape Challenges, Actors and Governance (pp. 83-103). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS.

Haar, R. (2017). Desensitized and Dispirited. Elsevier.

Dekker, T. (2017). The Headaches and Joys of an Open Curriculum. In J. Tonda Dirksen, D. Kontowski, & D. Krebs (Eds.), What is Liberal Education and what could it be? : EUROPEAN STUDENTS ON THEIR LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION (Vol. Delphi, pp. 29-31). LESC.

Haar, R. (2017). Insurgency and American Foreign Policy: the case of George McGovern. World Affairs, 180(2), 32-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0043820017721266

Smolka, M. (2017). Translating between Buddhism and neuroscience: Conceptual differences and similarities in epistemic cultures. Neuroscientific research on Vipassana meditation – a case study. The Self-Journal of Science, [647].

Rausch, C. (2017). Maisons Tropicales/Maisons Coloniales: contesting technologies of authenticity and value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2017.1362578

Schell – Leugers, J., & Geven, L. Wenn Beweise nicht kugelfest sind.

Ferguson, L. (2017). How do students access and assess academic information? A quick scan into information literacy at Maastricht University. Maastricht: Maastricht University.

Aarts, S. A. B. M., Seijkens, T. T. P., Kusters, P. J. H., van der Pol, S. M. A., Zarzycka, B., Heijnen, P. D. A. M., … Lutgens, E. (2017). Inhibition of CD40-TRAF6 interactions by the small molecule inhibitor 6877002 reduces neuroinflammation. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 14, [105]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-017-0875-9

Bijlmakers, S. (2017). The legalization of corporate social responsibility: towards a new doctrine of international legal status in a global governance context.

Ferguson, L. (2017). Approaching the digital humanities: A report on the present and future potential of digital humanities collaboration at Maastricht University. Maastricht: Maastricht University.

Haar, R. (2017). Trump: Apprentice-President, Failing Entertainer, or Disrupter-in-Chief? Three Possible Pathways for Trump’s Foreign Policy. Atlantisch Perspectief, 41(2), 14-20.

Dekker, T. (2017). Diversity and Differentiation in the Dialectic of Liberal Arts. In K. Goessinger (Ed.), On the emergence of Pigeon Towers: A collection of essays (1 ed., Vol. 1, pp. 2-32). Cairo.

Wolf, D., Bukosza, N., Enge, D., Poggi, M., Jehle, F., Michel, N. A., … Zirlik, A. (2017). Inflammation, but not recruitment, of adipose tissue macrophages requires signalling through Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18) in diet-induced obesity (DIO). Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 117(2), 325-338. https://doi.org/10.1160/TH16-07-0553

de Bont, R., Schleper, S., & Schouwenburg, H. (2017). Conservation Conferences and Expert Networks in the Short Twentieth Century. Environment and History, 23(4), 569-599. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734017X15046905071889

Heidemann, K. El desarrollo de la participación comunitaria a través de las escuelas comunitarias: Una mirada hacia Argentina.

Dekker, T. (2017). Liberal Arts in Europe. In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory Singapore: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978

Schleper, M. S. (2017). Life on Earth: Controversies on the science and politics of global nature conservation, 1960 – 1980. Maastricht: Datawyse / Universitaire Pers Maastricht. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20170426mss

Heidemann, K. (2017). Overcoming Uncertainty: Agency, Stance and the Rise of Collective Action in Times of Crisis. Sociological Focus, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380237.2017.1370938

Smolka, M. (2017). Responsibility in neuroscientific cognitive enhancement research. Poster session presented at European Summer Research Institute, Chiemsee, Germany.

Smolka, M. (Author). (2017). Responsibility in the Silver Santé Study means caring for others: Point of view. Web publication/site, www.silversantestudy.eu: . Retrieved from https://silversantestudy.eu/points-of-view/

Smolka, M. (2017). Territories of Critique in Psychology: Lübeck Colloquium on Psychological Humanities. H-Soz-Kult.

Dekker, T. (2016). Fred Feldman’s Distributive justice: getting what we deserve from our country. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 288 pp. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 9(2), 208. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v9i2.240

Haar, R. (2016). The Trump Effect on U.S. Foreign Policy: Opinion Editorial. Observant, 36.

Rausch, C. (2016). Global Heritage Assemblages: Development and Modern Architecture in Africa. (Routledge Series in Culture and Development). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Haar, R. (2016). Great Expectations or Great Disappointments? Atlantisch Perspectief, 40(2), 3-8.

Heins, M. (2016). The relationship between social adversity, psychosis, and depression across an individual’s life span.

Haar, R. (2016). The Trump Effect on U.S. foreign Policy. Atlantisch Perspectief, 40(5), 4-9.

Heidemann, K. (2016). What’s the Deal with Liberals? The Discursive Construction of Partisan Identity in Conservative Stand-Up Comedy. In M. Meier, & C. Scmitt (Eds.), Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change (pp. 152-167). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Sauerland, M., Schell – Leugers, J., & Sagana, A. (2015). Fabrication puts suspects at risk: blindness to changes in transgression-related statements. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29(4), 544-551. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3133

Haar, R. (2015). “Never again,” or “Yet again?”. Atlantisch Perspectief, 39(2), 3-9.

Haar, R., & Krebs, L. (2015). Choosing to Intervene: US Domestic Politics and Moral Imperatives. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 21(4), 497–505. https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2015-0030

Bijlmakers, S., & Van Calster, G. (2015). Global Business and Human Rights Governance. In J. Wouters, A. Breakman, & E. Bécault (Eds.), Global governance and democracy: A multidisciplinary analysis (pp. 117-155). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Lo, C. (2015). HIV/AIDS in China and India: Governing Health Security. (1 ed.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504210

Bijlmakers, S., Footer, M., & Hachez, N. (2015). The EU’s engagement with the main Business and Human Rights instruments. Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies.

Haar, R. (2015). When Does the United States Intervene Militarily for Humanitarian Reasons? Politics and Policy, 43(2), 287-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12111

Bijlmakers, S., & Van Calster, G. (2015). You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap! A case study of ISO 26000 on social responsibility. In The Law, Economics and Politics of International Standardisation (pp. 275-310). (International Trade and Economic Law). Cambridge University Press.

Haar, R., & Duke, S. (2014). A Reassessment of Transatlantic Security: Europe, The United States and NATO. In R. Tiersky, & E. Jones (Eds.), Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction (Fifth ed., pp. 417-446). Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc..

Bijlmakers, S. (2014). De VN Principes bijna drie jaar na goedkeuring; wat leverde het op? Wereldbeeld, 38(169), 5-11.

Heidemann, K. (2014). From ‘Seeing’ to ‘Seizing’ Opportunity: Critical Events, Turning Points and Ethnolinguistic Mobilization in the Basque Country. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 1(4), 347-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2015.1043742

Heidemann, K. (2014). In the Name of Language: School-Based Language Revitalization, Strategic Solidarities and State Power in France. Journal of Language Identity and Education, 13(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2014.864213

Vliegenthart, D. (2014). Internationale Conferentie over Religie en Pluriforme Kennis: Review van de NGG/EASR/IAHR Conferentie in Mei 2014. Tijdschrift voor Theologie, 54(3), 298.

Dekker, T. (2014). Lifting the Fog: Exercises in Analytical Discourse Evaluation. Maastricht: Maastricht University.

Moes, J., Melchior, I., & Gugushvili, A. (2014). The Effect of the 2008 War on Estonian Public Confidence in International Organisations: A Mixed Methods Study. Paper presented at XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan.

Heidemann, K. (2014). Theorizing School-Based Language Activism in the Basque Country and Beyond: A Social Movement Approach. In R. De Palma, D. B. Napier, & W. Dze-Ngwa (Eds.), Revitalizing Minority Voices: Language Issues in the New Millenium (pp. 51-70). Sense Publishers.

Dekker, T. (Photographer). (2013). Humboldt’s Coming Home: How Liberal Arts Education may be Central to Europe’s Economic Future. Web publication/site, Oxford: .

Dekker, T. (2013). Het debat over topinkomens mist echte argumenten. Trouw.

Bijlmakers, S. (2013). Business and human rights governance and democratic legitimacy: the UN “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 26(4), 288-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2013.771894

Dekker, T. (2013). Das Gehalt des Prasidenten. KulturAustausch, 63(2), 42-44.

Moes, J. (2013). European Identity in Times of Crisis: an in-depth analysis of Estonia, Italy and the Netherlands. Paper presented at ESA 11th Conference, Torino, Italy.

Bijlmakers, S. (2013). M. Eroglu, Multinational Enterprises and Tort Liabilities (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2008). European Review of Private Law, 21(2), 661-664.

Haar, R. (2013). Overcoming Mutual Mistrust in the Middle East: Obama’s Challenges to sustain U.S. Strategic Interests. Atlantisch Perspectief, 37(1), 10-16.

Haar, R. (2013). Overcoming Mutual Mistrust: A Consideration of America’s Strategic Intentions in the Middle East: German Council on Foreign Relations.

Dekker, T. (2013). Paying Our High Public Officials: Evaluating the Political Justifications of Top Wages in the Public Sector. Londen: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Haar, R. (2013). To Strike Syria or Not. Atlantisch Perspectief, 37(8), 9-14.

Dekker, T. (2013). Wat is er mis met de Balkenende norm. Openbaar Bestuur: tijdschrift voor beleid, organisatie & politiek, 23(3), 2-6. [1].

Bijlmakers, S. (2012). Effects of Foreign Direct Investment Arbitration on a State’s regulatory autonomy involving the public interest. American Review of International Arbitration, 23(2 ), 245-266.

Moes, J. (2012). European Identity in Crisis: A Methodological Framework. Paper presented at European Identity in Times of Crisis, Fiesole, Italy.

Schell , J. (2012). False Confessions. In J. Shaw (Ed.), Psychology and Law Factbook: Learn the facts. Understand the controversies. European Association of Psychology and Law.

Heidemann, K. Fields of Minority Language Activism.

Heidemann, K. Finding a Voice for Minority Languages.

Bijlmakers, S. (2012). Global business and human rights governance: the case of corporate social responsibility. In Global business and human rights governance: the case of corporate social responsibility

Haar, R. (2012). Informal Governance in the U.S.: Capitol Hill Networks. In T. Christiansen, & C. Neuhold (Eds.), International Handbook of Informal Governance (pp. 117-134). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Heidemann, K. Notes on the Ideological Challenges of Minority Language Activism.

Heidemann, K. (2012). Review of ‘Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture and Storytelling in the North Atlantic’. H-Net Book Review.

Bijlmakers, S., Meuwissen, K., & Wouters , J. (2012). The EU as a multilateral security actor after the Treaty of Lisbon: constitutional and institutional aspects. In S. Lucarelli, L. V. Langenhove, & J. Wouters (Eds.), The EU and multilateral security governance (pp. 72-103). London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Vliegenthart, D. (2012). The Key to Blavatsky? Book Review of Gary Lachman (2012), Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality. Correspondences, 1(1), 129-132.

Heidemann, K. (2012). The Political Tension Between Linguistic Assimilation and Pluralism in France. In Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class [Sixth Edition] (pp. 87-88). SAGE.

Haar, R. (2012). The Pragmatic President: Obama’s Second Term Foreign Policy. Atlantisch Perspectief, 36(8), 10-14.

Heidemann, K. (2012). The View From Below: Exploring the Interface between Basque Language Activism and European Language Politics in France. Mobilization, 17(2), 195-220.

Bijlmakers, S., & Wouters, J. (2012). Towards a Legalisation of CSR in the European Union? Critical Reflections on the European Commission’s New Strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility. In International Conference on The “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework: Charting a Future or Taking the Wrong Turn for Business and Human Rights?

Vliegenthart, D. (2011). Can Neurotheology explain Religion? Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv fur Religionspsychologie, 33, 137-171. https://doi.org/10.1163/157361211X577284

Dekker, T. (2011). Desert, Democracy and Consumer Surplus. Politics Philosophy & Economics, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X09351959

Schell , J. M., & Merckelbach, H. (2011). Falsche Geständnisse: Warum unschuldige Menschen Verbrechen gestehen, die sie nicht begangen haben. The Inquisitive Mind , 1.

Mueller, U. (2011). Far Away So Close: Race, Whiteness and German Identity. Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power, 18(6), 620-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2011.672863

Moes, J. (2011). Identifying Space: Geographical Imaginations of Europe in Estonia. Paper presented at Fading nation-states?, Kraków, Poland.

Rausch, C. (2011). Modern Trophy: Global Actors in the Heritage Valorization of the Maisons Tropicales. In M. Halbertsma, A. van Stipriaan, & P. van Ulzen (Eds.), The Heritage Theatre: Globalization and Cultural Heritage Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Heidemann, K. (2011). Review of ‘The The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Welfare States and Political Opportunities’. Mobilization, 16, 246-47.

Haar, R., & Duke, S. (2011). Still at the crossroads: Europe, the United States and NATO. In R. Tiersky, & E. Jones (Eds.), Europe Today (4 ed., pp. 399-432). Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc..

Lo, C., & Thomas, N. (2010). How is health a security issue? Politics, responses and issues. Health Policy and Planning, 25(6), 447-453. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czq063

Haar, R. (2010). “Explaining George W. Bush’s Adoption of the Neoconservative Agenda after 9/11.”. Politics and Policy, 38(5), 965-990. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00265.x

Moes, J. (2010). Competing discourses on Europe: the divided case of Estonia. Paper presented at European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2010, Maynooth, Ireland.

Schell , J. M. (2010). False confessions and its pitfalls: The dilemma of applying research findings to practice. In P. Santtila (Ed.), The applicability of psycho-legal research: Sexual interest, deception and suggestibility (pp. 73-88). Oslo, Norway: Nordforsk.

Dekker, T. (2010). Luck-Neutralization: A Defence. Journal of Value Inquiry, 42(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-010-9206-4

Dekker, T. (2010). Responsibility, Desert, and Inequality. Imprints – Egalitarian Theory and Practice, 10(3), 206-228.

Martens, W. J. M., & Chang, C. T. (2010). The social and behavioural aspects of climate change: linking vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.

Dekker, T. (2009). Choices, Consequences and Desert. Inquiry-an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 52(2), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/00201740902790201

Moes, J. (2009). CosmoPoles: A Mixed‐methods Study on the European Identity of Higher‐educated Polish Youth. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9(3), 429. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2009.01058.x

Dekker, T. (2009). The Illiberality of Perfectionist Enhancement. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, 12(1), 91-98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-008-9150-2

Haar, R., & Schorn, T. (2009). Transatlantic Approaches to Democratization in the Middle East. In Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus: Culture, History and Politics (pp. 245-261). Liverpool Academic Press.

Haar, R., & Wynn, N. (2009). Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus: Culture, History and Politics. Liverpool Academic Press.

Dekker, T. (2008). Desert and Distributive Efficiency. Ethics and Economics, 5(2).

Moes, J. (2008). European Identity Compared: A Mixed Methods Approach. Paper presented at ECPR Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Riga, Latvia.

Moes, J., Eisinga, R., Scheepers, P., Wester, F., Ruben, R., & Need, A. (2008). Research Master Social and Cultural Science: Comparative Research on Societies – Self-evaluation Report. Radboud Universiteit.

Heidemann, K. (2007). The Process of Norwegianization in Saami Communities: A critical exploration of language, education and nationalism. In D. Witkosky, & K. Schuster (Eds.), Languages of the Land: Policy,Politics, Identity Information Age Publishing Inc..

Heidemann, K. (2006). Review of ‘Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe: Evidence from the Euromosaic Project’. The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, 17-18.

Heidemann, K., & Bratt Paulston, C. (2005). Language Policy and the Education of Linguistic Minorities. In An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Method (pp. 292-310). Wiley-Blackwell.

Heidemann, K. (2003). Review of ‘Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy’. The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, 3(1), 40-1. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsae.2003.3.1.40

Haar, R., & Duke, S. (2001). Groeien de trans-Atlantische partners uit elkaar. Internationale Spectator.

Haar, R. (2001). Nation States as Schizophrenics: Germany and Japan as post-Cold War Actors. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Haar, R. (2000). The Kosovo Crisis and its Consequences for a European Security Architecture. In K. Spillmann, & J. Krause (Eds.), Kosovo: Lessons Learned for International Cooperative Security Frankfurt: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers.