E. Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn

Senator for the Socialist Party and Professor of Global Political Economy and Geopolitics

Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Academic Appointments and Employment 2006-2018: Associate Professor International Relations, Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 2000-2006: (Senior) Lecturer in International Relations (UD), Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany; 1999-2000: Summer Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.,Canada; Spring 1998: Scientific and Pedagogical Assistant at the European Centre for Industrial Relations (E.C.I.R.), Florence, Italy; Fall 1997 Research Collaborator of the Robert Schuman Centre in the European University Institute (with Dr. Martin Rhodes) on a research project commissioned by the Directorate-General of Social Affairs and Employment (DGV) of the European Commission on the ‘Impact of Globalisation on Social Policies and Employment’. Specialties: International Political Economy; International and Transnational Relations; Geopolitics; US foreign policy; European Integration & European Governance in Global Perspective; European Political Economy.

Experience

  • Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal (11 yrs 2 mos)
    • Chair Standing Committee for European Affairs of the Dutch Senate
      Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Senator for the Socialist Party (SP)
      Jun 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

    • Chair Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Development Cooperation of the Senate
      Jun 2019 - Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • VU Amsterdam (19 yrs 11 mos)
    • Director VU Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies- VICES
      Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    • Professor of Global Political Economy and Geopolitics
      Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

    • Hoogleraar
      Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

      Hoogleraar Mondiale Politieke Economie en Geopolitiek aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • (Senior) Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    Jan 2000 - Jan 2006 · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Summer Instructor at University of Victoria
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2000 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Socities
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 · 2 yrs 1 mo