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Author:   Albertine Bloemendal
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.706kg
ISBN:  

9789004359178

ISBN 10:   9004359176
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   11 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction â Ernst van der Beugel â The Atlantic Elite and the Unofficial Atlantic Community â Ernst van der Beugel: A Case Study in New Diplomatic History â Sources and Structure 1 The Great Mistake of the West â Youth and Student Years â The Worst Years: The Idea of War is Growing more Familiar to us Every Day â The War Years â Conclusion 2 Present at the Creation â The Marshall Plan â The Paris Conference â To Washington â The Washington Meetings â The Marshall Plan: A Joint Venture between the Public and the Private Sector â The Dutch Organization â Public Private Linkages in the Netherlands â Cooperation with the American Country Mission in The Hague â A Comprehensive PR-Campaign â The ERP: Developing Transatlantic Networks â Hirschfeld's Heir â Conclusion 3 An Atlanticist European â Historical Context: the Netherlands and the Road to Rome â Political and Military Integration â The Group of Ten â Diverging Paths: The EDC and the Rise of the Gaullists â Atlanticist vs. Europeanists and the Straightjacket of Administrative Discipline â State Secretary: The Road to Rome â Hope and Disillusionment: The Free Trade Area and Charles de Gaulle â Conclusion: an Atlanticist European 4 Unofficial Ambassador for an Atlantic Community â Statesman without Office â KLM Connections â Transition and Continuity â The Unofficial Atlantic Community â The Bilderberg Meetings â Public Voice â A Transatlantic Mediator â Turbulence at KLM â Conclusion 5 The Gaullist Challenge â Atlantic Crisis: A Nightmare Come True â Beyond `Facilitation': The Run-Up to the Bilderberg Meeting in Cannes â Cannes, 1963: We Now Know What We Are Up Against â The MLF Conversion: From Patch-Up Tool to Instrument for Atlantic Cohesion â Transatlantic Family Quarrels: The Lingering Rivalry of Europeanists vs. Atlanticists â American Leadership: A Cri de Coeur â Reverberations of Williamsburg â MLF: The Battle Continues â European Political Union Revisited: The Erhard Plan â Conclusion 6 Defense, Detente and the Average Man â Detente and the Soviet Threat â A Decline in Accepted and Acceptable American Leadership â The Atlantic Elite and the `Average Man' â The Dutch Scene: Nieuw Links, the PvdA and the Vietnam Letter â The Dutch Defense Debate â A Friend in the White House â A Small Intervention that Could Make All the Difference â The Biesheuvel Cabinet and the Committee of Civil and Military Experts â In Pursuit of a Domestic Climate Conducive to Close Transatlantic Relations â Conclusion 7 The Challenge of the Successor Generation â A Very Serious Generation Problem â Consultancy: The Ford Foundation and the Successor Generation â Bilderberg and the Pursuit of a `Continuous Rejuvenation' â Bridging the Generation Gap: From Marienlyst to Woodstock â The Old Guard in Defense of the Capitalist System â Bilderberg and the Lockheed Scandal: An Existential Crisis â The Smoothest Coup d'etat in the History of the Atlantic Alliance â NATO-Professor â Conclusion Conclusion: A Call for a New Diplomatic History Sources & Bibliography Index

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In conclusion, measured against the objectives of the New Diplomatic History as formulated by the author, this book can certainly be considered a success. It is clear that the part played in Cold War transatlantic relations by informal actors such as Ernst van der Beugel could be significant, and an account such as this one is a valuable addition, not only to the traditional, state-oriented historiography, but also the already existing work on networks such as Bilderberg. Ruud van Dijk: Rezension zu: Bloemendal, Albertine: Reframing the Diplomat. Ernst van der Beugel and the Cold War Atlantic Community. in: H-Soz-Kult, 27.07.2018, .

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Albertine Bloemendal, Ph.D. (2017), Leiden University, is a historian and Americanist currently working as a lecturer at that same university. She is specialized in New Diplomatic History and Cold War transatlantic relations and has published in popular and scholarly publications, such as New Global Studies.

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