IORP II is een richtlijn die kortgeleden door de Europese commissie is ingevoerd. Deze richtlijn is gericht op pensioenfondsen in Europa en heeft als verplichting de invoering van de drie sleutelfuncties: Actuarieel, risicobeheer en interne audit. Sommige pensioenfondsen kunnen of willen zelf niet voldoen …

This bachelor final project examines how the Dutch Ministry of Defence could enhance the number of female officers within in the organisation. The Dutch Ministry of Defence represents safety and peace in- and outside of the Netherlands. In the organisation, women are rarely represented. In 2017, solely …

We investigated to what extent correctional officers were able to apply skills from their self-defence training in reality-based scenarios. Performance of nine self-defence skills were tested in different scenarios at three moments: before starting the self-defence training programme (Pre-test), halfway …

This article examines whether calls for European ‘strategic autonomy’ in response to Trump’s rhetoric are qualitatively different from earlier disagreements in US-EU relations. By doing so, it re-assesses Geir Lundestad’s concept of “Empire by Invitation” to illustrate constraints for the development …

The fourth overview exhibition in the Ebifananyi project was also the show that accompanied my PhD defence on the 20th of November 2018. The emphasis of the exhibition was on the shared presentations bridging some of the differences between photographs in Uganda and photographs in Western Europe, as …

"As a public organization, the Dutch Defence organization needs to do its job properly, while using budgets and material resources in an appropriate manner. This implies the careful use of scare resources, preventing phenomena such as overspending, inefficiencies and the unconcerned use of equipment. …

"As a public organization, the Dutch Defence organization needs to do its job properly, while using budgets and material resources in an appropriate manner. This implies the careful use of scare resources, preventing phenomena such as overspending, inefficiencies and the unconcerned use of equipment. …

The objective of the study described in this paper is to define safety metrics that are based on the effectiveness of risk controls. Service providers define and implement such risk controls in order to prevent hazards developing into an accident. The background of this research is a specific need of …

This study examines the role the European Union Battlegroups can play in accomplishing EU security goals. In doing so, an assessment is made of the capabilities and shortcomings of the Battlegroups in light of EU defence ambitions. The security environment of the European Union is changing. Since the …

At the end of the 1940s and the early 1950s, the question whether or not to rearm West Germany was a fiercely and hotly debated topic in Europe. The Americans suggested doing this by integrating the Federal Republic in NATO. However, many Europeans feared the resurgence of German militarism. Nowhere …