As a military historian I teach and write on colonial warfare, counter-insurgency and peace operations. Currently I am coordinating a theme group at the Netherlands Insitute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) that compares extreme violence during the wars of decolonization. I have studied at the University of Groningen and Trinity College Dublin and earned my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2005. Before joining Leiden University I worked at Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH) in The Hague. My other half-time position is as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.

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As a military historian I teach and write on colonial warfare, counter-insurgency and peace operations. Currently I am coordinating a theme group at the Netherlands Insitute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) that compares extreme violence during the wars of decolonization. I have studied at the University of Groningen and Trinity College Dublin and earned my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2005. Before joining Leiden University I worked at Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH) in The Hague. My other half-time position is as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.

Research

My research concentrates on the nexus between the military and civil authorities in crisis and conflict. On this topic I have authored Soldiers and Civil Power and co-authored A Gentle Occupation: Dutch Military Operations in Iraq, 2003-2005. As an editor and author I also contribute to the volumes on overseas military operations in the NIMH-series The Military History of the Netherlands. Another book I co-authored is American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920-1949.

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