Martijn Mos
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. M. Mos MA MPhil
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3979
- m.mos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8006-2970
Martijn Mos is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science.
Martijn Mos is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science. His research explores the contestation of international norms, with a specific focus on LGBTI rights and national minority rights within the European Union.
In addition to publishing parts of his doctoral dissertation, which is entitled ‘Normative Ties That Bind? Contesting National and Sexual Minority Rights in a Post-Enlargement Europe,’ Martijn is currently working on three main topics: 1) The organised resistance of the Christian Right to LGBT rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights at the institutions of the European Union; 2) The role of agency in contemporary applications of the standard of civilisation; and 3) The politicisation of linguistic diversity in the European Parliament.
Martijn holds a PhD and MA in Government from Cornell University, an MPhil in European Politics and Society from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Global Studies from the University of Vienna. He was also a visiting fellow with the Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB) and an instructor with the Council on International Educational Exchange in Amsterdam.
PhD supervision
Martijn Mos is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- international norms
- human rights
- gender and sexuality
See for more information on PhD positions:
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Mos M. (2025), The European Commission's Changing Response to LGBTIQ Rights Violations: Suddenly, One Summer. In: Brière C. & Crespy A. (Eds.), Inequality and the European Union: New Frontiers in Political Science and Law. The Globalisation, Europe, Multilateralism Series. Abingdon: Routledge. 40-54.
- Mos M. & Macedo Piovezan I. (2024), Leadership in international populism : how Viktor Orbán’s Hungary shows the way, New Perspectives : .
- Mos M. (2023), Leader or Laggard - Diversity and Minority Rights in a Union under Strain. In: Roos M & Schade D. (Eds.), The EU under Strain? : Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics. Berlin: De Gruyter. 253-274.
- Mos M. (2023), Leader or laggard? Diversity and minority rights in a union under strain. In: Roos M. & Schade D. (Eds.), The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics. Berlin: De Gruyter. 253-274.
- Saltnes J.D. & Mos M. (2022), Understanding the EU’s response to LGBTI rights violations: inter-institutional differences and social sanctions, Politics and Governance 10(1): 79-89.
- Mos M. (2022), Routing or Rerouting Europe? The Civilizational Mission of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe, Problems of Post-Communism 70(2): 143-152.
- Mos M. (2022), The Anti-Gay Propaganda Law in Lithuania: Defying the European Union. In: Vida B. (Ed.), The Gendered Politics of Crises and De-Democratization: Opposition to Gender Equality. Lanham: ECPR Press/Rowman & Littlefield. 175-194.
- Mos M. (2020), The anticipatory politics of homophobia: explaining constitutional bans on same-sex marriage in post-communist Europe, East European Politics 36(3): 395-416 .
- Mos M. (2020), Ambiguity and interpretive politics in the crisis of European values: evidence from Hungary, East European Politics 36(2): 267-287.
- Mos M. (2020), Diverting Linguistic Diversity: The Politics of Multilingualism in the European Parliament. In: Strani K. (Ed.), Multilingualism and Politics: Revisiting Multilingual Citizenship. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 47-76.
- Mos M. (2018), The fight of the Religious Right in Europe: old whines in new bottles, European Journal of Politics and Gender 1(3): 325-343.
- Mos M. (2018), The fight of the Religious Right in Europe: old whines in new bottles, European Journal of Politics and Gender 1(3): 325-343.
- Mos M. (2014), Of Gay Rights and Christmas Ornaments: The Political History of Sexual Orientation Non‐discrimination in the Treaty of Amsterdam, Journal of Common Market Studies 52(3): 632-649.
- Mos M. (2013), Conflicted Normative Power Europe: The European Union and Sexual Minority Rights, Journal of Contemporary European Research 9(1): 78-93.
- Scott-Smith G.P. & Mos M. (2009), Democracy Promotion and the New Public Diplomacy. In: Parmar I., Miller L.B. & Ledwidge M. (Eds.), New Directions in US Foreign Policy. Abingdon: Routledge. 225-240.