Mw. prof. dr. B.A. (Beatrice) de Graaf

Functie:
  • Full professor for conflict and security in historical perspective
  • Head academic research, Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Expertise:
  • Modern Political History
  • Security
  • International Relations


Telefoon: +31 (0)70 800 9574
E-Mail: b.a.de.graaf@cdh.leidenuniv.nl
Faculteit / Onderdeel: Faculteit Campus Den Haag, Centre for Terrorism & Counterterrorism
Werkadres: Stichthage
Koningin Julianaplein 10
2595 AA Den Haag



Office hours

By appointment

Fields of interest

History of national security in the West (19th-21st century), Counterterrorism and political violence (see Leiden University ), Securitization and International relations, Historical research on the development of security thinking: See video of De Graaf's research on security history.   

Research activities and cv

The overarching theme of De Graaf’s research has been the history of conflict and security since the 19th century, starting with a PhD-thesis on the East German Ministry of State Security’s operations towards the Netherlands. Current research centers around the NWO-VIDI-project “Enemies of the State”, which investigates the construction of the National Security State after 1945 as a coherent system of institutions, instruments, measures, and ideas concerning national security threats and interests. With two additional PhD projects on political legitimation and securitization, the focus lies on developing new tools for mapping the development of security concepts and practices in history. See for more information the Enemies of the State project website.  Apart from this research project, De Graaf initiated a NIAS research theme group on the topic of 'Terrorism Trials'. She deals with the wider social and political causes and consequences of terrorism trials in the West. A third, smaller, project investigates the role of 'dangerous women’ within terrorist and radical groups, as well the way they were perceived and combatted by counterterrorists. Beatrice de Graaf (1976) studied Modern History and German language and culture at Utrecht University and Universität Bonn. She received her PhD degree in December 2004, in Utrecht (PhD thesis: Across the Wall. The GDR, the Dutch churches and the peace movement). She worked as an assistant professor at the Department of International History at Utrecht University. In 2007 she changed to the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism of Campus The Hague, Leiden University, where she was appointed associate professor in 2009 and full professor of Conflict and Security History in 2012. 

Recent teaching activities

  • Course “Terrorism& Counterterrorism” for practitioners, Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism/Leiden University
  • “Security in Historical Perspective”, MA course Crisis and Security Management, Department of Public Administration/Leiden University
  • “What were we afraid of? The history of internaland foreign (political) threats, 1945-present”, BA 3 seminar, Department of History/Leiden University

Membership and functions

  • Since 2011, board member of the Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap (Royal Dutch Historical Association).
  • Since 2012, member of The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities).
  • Since 2011, member of The Young Academy/The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the Council on Signaling Risks (Raadsgroep Signalering Risico’s), Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
  • In 2010/2011 she was fellow at the NIAS
  • In 2010, together with Willem Schinkel (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and inspired by Jaap de Wilde (University of Groningen) she founded the Research Network Securitization in the Netherlands.
  • Member of the editorial board of Terrorism and Political Violence; Studies in Conflict and Terrorism; Journal of European Intelligence Studies; Zeitschrift fürAuswärtige und Sicherheitspolitik; Perspectives on Terrorism.

Recent publications

 
  • Graaf, B.A. de and C. Zwierlein (eds.) (2013). Security and Conspiracy in History [Special issue]. Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 38 (1)    
  • Graaf, B.A. de (2012). Gevaarlijke vrouwen. Tien militante vrouwen in het vizier. Amsterdam: Boom 
  • Graaf, B.A. de (2011). Evaluating Counterterrorism Performance. A Comparative Approach. Oxford/New York: Routledge Academic Publishers. (recently listed in the 'Top 150 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism' by the journal). 
 
   
     

 
Laatst Gewijzigd: 27-03-2013