Dr L.C. Crump (Laurien)

Laurien Crump has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Parliamentary History at Radboud University since September 2024. She is currently researching foreign and defence policy during the Lubbers governments in the long 1980s (1982-94).

Laurien also researches transatlantic security questions and the European security architecture after the Cold War, including NATO expansion, and the historical and geopolitical context of the war in Ukraine. Her multi-archival research is positioned at the cross-section of history and international relations, often in comparative perspective.

More broadly Laurien is specialised in pan-European diplomacy during and after the Cold War, with a special focus on the relations between Eastern and Western European countries and relations with the United States. As such, she has also focused on the current challenges posed by the Trump-administration on the rules-based order.

Laurien has also worked twelve years at Utrecht University as inter alia Associate Professor in Contemporary European History, where she obtained her PhD cum laude in 2014. She has completed her Veni-research on pan-European security and diplomacy in the 1980s in Utrecht.

Laurien publishes prolifically on a broad range of topics and regularly comments on current international affairs in various media in the Netherlands and Belgium with attention for the historical and geopolitical context, including the Global South.

• The Eighties