ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
National interest versus common interest
The Netherlands and the liberalization of Rhine navigation at the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815)
chapter 2|24 pages
Algiers burning
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the post-Napoleonic European order of peace and security
chapter 3|24 pages
Joining the international war against anarchism
The Dutch police and its push towards transnational cooperation, 1880–1914
chapter 4|17 pages
‘You act too much as a journalist and too little as a diplomat’
Pieter Geyl, the National Bureau for Documentation on the Netherlands and Dutch public diplomacy (1919–1935)
chapter 5|20 pages
Between the League of Nations and Europe
Multiple internationalisms and interwar Dutch civil society
chapter 6|23 pages
Rethinking small state security
Dutch alignment in the 1940s compared to Swedish neutrality
chapter 7|23 pages
Expropriating American power
Dutch clientelism and the East Indies crises, 1941–1948
chapter 9|18 pages
Attracted and repelled
Transnational relations between civil society and the state in the history of the fair trade movement since the 1960s
chapter 11|17 pages
Taking stock of a ‘Ruslandganger’
Ernst H. van Eeghen, De Burght Foundation, and private diplomacy in East–West relations during the 1980s and 1990s
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