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Reflections on Davids: I
“Investigative committees have no use. They are always brought in too late for these kinds of moral issues.” So wrote defence and security expert Chris Klep in February 2009, based on his research...
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The Future of the ‘Atlantic Reflex’ in Dutch Foreign Policy
This article has been published online today in the NRC Handelsblad’s International Edition: [Image taken from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netherlands_USA_Locator.svg] Giles Scott-Smith...
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Wikileaks NL II: Small Country, Grand Strategy
[The G20 in Pittsburgh, October 2009: Centre of Dutch Aspirations] HB contributor Paul van Hooft on the preeminence of US interests in Dutch strategy…… The wikileaks pertaining to the Netherlands have...
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Netherlands-Iran II: Quiet Diplomacy?
[Iran and the Netherlands: Interwoven through the Ages (2009), a book developed by the Dutch Embassy in Teheran as a cultural diplomacy product to highlight Dutch-Iranian relations since the East...
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Netherlands-Iran III: Privatise Foreign Affairs
[Ben Bot returning from Syria with the Dutch-Syrian children Sara and Ammar in 2004, after they were illegally taken out of the Netherlands by their father. Photo: NOS] Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal...
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The AIVD Budget
Earlier this month a number of security intellectuals spoke out against the proposed cutbacks in the AIVD budget – €70m by 2018, around a third of the institution’s entire income. Former Foreign...
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Damage Limitation….or Damage Creation
The joke at the moment is that while the US has eavesdropped on 35 world leaders, Mark Rutte wasn’t on the list because the Netherlands has collapsed into insignificance in recent years. The declining...
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Polishing the Present, Dodging the Past
On 10 December Minister of the Interior Ronald Plasterk presented a National Human Rights Action Plan to parliament. This is a first for the Netherlands, and in doing so it joined a select group of...
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