Jorie Horsthuis
Jorie Horsthuis is a journalist and a political scientist. She writes about disputed borders for international media. As co-founder of De Facto, she organizes and hosts our live events. Based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Amsterdam.
Articles
‘You Need a Crisis Before the World Starts Listening To You’
Welcome to De Facto’s new interview series, in which we interview scientists, artists and journalists about contested borders. We kick off with political scientist Ramesh Ganohariti, who has recently co-authored a book on sub-state recognition. ‘States have become more emboldened to throw the international playbook out of the window.’
Jorie Horsthuis | 11 Mar 2026
A Country of Seven Billion Outhabitants
In 2006, Gerard Beukeveld declared the independence of a piece of land less than three thousand square meters in size — a sovereign state on an industrial area in Coevorden (the Netherlands). Support poured in, but in short order the battle intensified. A curious encounter with the founders.
Jorie Horsthuis | 22 Jul 2022
Europadorp/Europadorf
In the audiovisual performance Europadorp/Europadorf, theater maker Silas Neumann takes us to the border area between Germany and the Netherlands. With video fragments, live soundscapes and augmented reality, he reconstructs the twenty year old utopia of a borderless village.
Jorie Horsthuis | 7 Apr 2022
Fortuitous Lines
Borders create paradoxes: when you cross them, everything changes but much stays the same. In Borderlands, Dutch journalist Milo van Bokkum describes this paradox and the way locals deal with the complexities caused by these often arbitrarily drawn lines.
Jorie Horsthuis | 20 Mar 2022
Fighters on Flip Flops
Photographer Philippe Dudouit is one of the few foreigners who continues to travel to the Sahelo-Sahara region. His remarkable work The Dynamics of Dust gives an exceptional insight into the shifting alliances in this vast area that is often neglected in world politics.
Jorie Horsthuis | 4 Feb 2021
Gripping Tales from North Kosovo
In Dragon’s Teeth, writer and diplomat Ian Bancroft explores the paradoxes and absurdities of life in North Kosovo. With interviews, historical anecdotes and first-hand observations, he gives a human face to one of the most disputed territories in Europe.
Jorie Horsthuis | 23 Mar 2020
