Shaping The International Relations Of The Netherlands 1815 2000

Author : Ruud van Dijk,Samuël Kruizinga,Vincent Kuitenbrouwer,Rimko van der Maar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351856133

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Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000 by Ruud van Dijk,Samuël Kruizinga,Vincent Kuitenbrouwer,Rimko van der Maar Pdf

This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of non-state actors beyond politicians and diplomats. Second, it focuses on the transnational connections that shaped the foreign relations of the Netherlands, emphasizing the effects of (post-) colonialism and internationalism. Furthermore, this essay collection highlights not only the key roles played by Dutch actors on the international scene, but also serves as an important point of comparison for the activities of their counterparts in other small states.

Author : Amry Vandenbosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000022809094

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Dutch Foreign Policy Since 1815 by Amry Vandenbosch Pdf

Author : Samuël Kruizinga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350168909

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The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe by Samuël Kruizinga Pdf

Rather than simply assuming that some states are small and others are big, The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe delves deep into the construction of different size-based hierarchies in Europe and explores the way Europeans have thought about their own state's size and that of their continental neighbours since the early 19th century. By positing that ideas about size are intimately connected with both basic discourses about a state's identity and policy discourses about the range of options most appropriate to that state, this multi-contributor volume presents a novel way of thinking about what makes one state, in the eyes of both its own inhabitants and those of others, different from others, and what effects these perceived differences have had, and continue to have, on domestic, European, and global politics. Bringing together an international team of historians and political scientists, this nuanced and sophisticated study examines the connections between shifting ideas about a state's (relative) size, competing notions of national interest and mission, and international policy in modern Europe and beyond.

Author : Laurien Crump,Susanna Erlandsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429758461

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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe by Laurien Crump,Susanna Erlandsson Pdf

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.

Author : Samuël Kruizinga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350168893

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The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe by Samuël Kruizinga Pdf

Rather than simply assuming that some states are small and others are big, The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe delves deep into the construction of different size-based hierarchies in Europe and explores the way Europeans have thought about their own state's size and that of their continental neighbours since the early 19th century. By positing that ideas about size are intimately connected with both basic discourses about a state's identity and policy discourses about the range of options most appropriate to that state, this multi-contributor volume presents a novel way of thinking about what makes one state, in the eyes of both its own inhabitants and those of others, different from others, and what effects these perceived differences have had, and continue to have, on domestic, European, and global politics. Bringing together an international team of historians and political scientists, this nuanced and sophisticated study examines the connections between shifting ideas about a state's (relative) size, competing notions of national interest and mission, and international policy in modern Europe and beyond.

Author : Joep Schenk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000286533

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The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth Century by Joep Schenk Pdf

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine’s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation on Europe’s prime river. The book explores how the most fundamental change in the history of international river governance arose from European security concerns. It examines how the CCNR functioned as an ongoing experiment in reconciling national and common interests that contributed to the emergence of European prosperity in the course of the long nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows that modern conceptions and practices of security cannot be understood without accounting for prosperity considerations and prosperity policies. Incorporating research from archives in Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands, as well as the recently opened CCNR archives in France, this study operationalises a truly transnational perspective that effectively opens the black box of the oldest and still existing international organisation in the world in its first centenary. In showing how security-prosperity considerations were a driving force in the unfolding of Europe’s prime river in the nineteenth century, it is of interest to scholars of politics and history, including the history of international relations, European history, transnational history and the history of security, as well as those with an interest in current themes and debates about transboundary water governance. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Marten Boon,Hein A.M. Klemann,Ben Wubs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317207849

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Transnational Regions in Historical Perspective by Marten Boon,Hein A.M. Klemann,Ben Wubs Pdf

National competitiveness has become a misnomer, as competitiveness is increasingly understood as a regional phenomenon and regions are not confined to the boundaries of the nation state. This book focuses on the Port of Rotterdam and its hinterland – i.e. the Lower Rhine and the Ruhr area. A transnational perspective is imperative to understand the historical trajectories of the port, the hinterland and the region itself. This book brings geography and the transnational study of regions back into the historical discipline, linking places to larger geographical scales and to systems of production and consumption and the global chains in which they are organised. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in urban studies, urban planning, public policy, geography and political science.

Author : Constantin Ardeleanu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004425965

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The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 by Constantin Ardeleanu Pdf

The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.

Author : Boyd van Dijk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192638397

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Preparing for War: The Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions by Boyd van Dijk Pdf

The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue to shape contemporary debates about regulating warfare, but their history is often misunderstood. For most observers, the drafters behind these treaties were primarily motivated by liberal humanitarian principles and the shock of the atrocities of the Second World War. This book tells a different story, showing how the final text of the Conventions, far from being an unabashedly liberal blueprint, was the outcome of a series of political struggles among the drafters. It also concerned a great deal more than simply recognizing the shortcomings of international law revealed by the experience of war. To understand the politics and ideas of the Conventions' drafters is to see them less as passive characters responding to past events than as active protagonists trying to shape the future of warfare. In many different ways, they tried to define the contours of future battlefields by deciding who deserved protection and what counted as a legitimate target. Outlawing illegal conduct in wartime did as much to outline the concept of humanized war as to establish the legality of waging war itself. Through extensive archival research and critical legal methodologies, Preparing for War establishes that although they did not seek war, the Conventions' drafters prepared for it by means of weaving a new legal safety net in the event that their worst fear should materialize, a spectre still haunting us today.

Author : Kim Christiaens,John Nieuwenhuys,Charel Roemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110639346

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International Solidarity in the Low Countries during the Twentieth Century by Kim Christiaens,John Nieuwenhuys,Charel Roemer Pdf

During the 20th century, a variety of social movements and civil society groups stepped into the arena of international politics. This volume collects innovative research on international solidarity movements in Belgium and the Netherlands, and places these movements prominently in debates about the history of globalization, transnational activism, and international politics.

Author : Florian Wagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512838

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Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 by Florian Wagner Pdf

Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108470162

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The Cambridge History of Terrorism by Richard English Pdf

An accessible, authoritative history of terrorism, offering systematic analyses of key themes, problems and case studies from terrorism's long past.

Author : Karen Gram-Skjoldager,Haakon Andreas Ikonomou,Torsten Kahlert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350134591

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Organizing the 20th-Century World by Karen Gram-Skjoldager,Haakon Andreas Ikonomou,Torsten Kahlert Pdf

International Organizations play a pivotal role on the modern global stage and have done, this book argues, since the beginning of the 20th century. This volume offers the first historical exploration into the formative years of international public administrations, covering the birth of the League of Nations and the emergence of the second generation that still shape international politics today such as the UN, NATO and OECD. Centring on Europe, where the multilaterization of international relations played out more intensely in the mid-20th century than in other parts of the world, it demonstrates a broad range of historiographical and methodological approaches to institutions in international history. The book argues that after several 'turns' (cultural, linguistic, material, transnational), international history is now better equipped to restate its core questions of policy and power with a view to their institutional dimensions. Making use of new approaches in the field, this book develops an understanding of the specific powers and roles of IO-administrations by delving into their institutional make-up.

Author : Thomas Dodman,Aurélien Lignereux
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031159961

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From the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire by Thomas Dodman,Aurélien Lignereux Pdf

This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link—or at least an important chain—in the global and longue durée history of Empires. In recent years Napoleonic studies have, belatedly but resolutely, embraced the transnational historiographical turn, vastly expanding the field’s geographical scope. Its canonical chronological boundaries, on the other hand, appear increasingly narrow against this wider backdrop, giving the impression of a parenthetical, almost anachronistic aside from 1799 to 1815. What connects, and what doesn’t connect, the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire, remains by and large an open question. Put another way, this book attempts to locate the Napoleonic empire in World History.

Author : Óscar J. Martín García,Rósa Magnúsdóttir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110560510

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Machineries of Persuasion by Óscar J. Martín García,Rósa Magnúsdóttir Pdf

Over the last two decades, public diplomacy has become a central area of research within Cold War studies. Yet, this field has been dominated by studies of the United States' soft power practices. However, the so-called 'cultural dimension' of the Cold war was a much more multifaceted phenomenon. Little attention has been paid to European actors' efforts to safeguard a wide range of strategic and political interests by seducing foreign publics. This book includes a series of works which examine the soft power techniques used by various European players to create a climate of public opinion overseas which favored their interests in the Cold war context. This is a relevant book for three reasons. First, it contains a wide variety of case studies, including Western and Eastern, democratic and authoritarian, and core and peripheral European countries. Second, it pays attention to little studied instruments of public diplomacy such as song contests, sport events, tourism and international solidarity campaigns. Third, it not only concentrates on public diplomacy programs deployed by governments, but also on the role played by some non-official actors in the cultural Cold War in Europe