From Neutrality to Commitment: Dutch Foreign Policy, NATO and European Integration

by William Mallinson

Book Overview

Until the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch, with their overseas empire, had managed to stay aloof from the machinations of intra-European fighting. However, the beginning of the Cold War found them persuaded by Britain and the US to break with their independent past, and fit into the emerging Western security system. William Mallinson here considers how major post-war developments in Europe affected Dutch foreign policy, traditionally one of abstentionism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848853440
• ISBN13: 9781848853447
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"