Marij Swinkels and Jorrit Steehouder on Dutch European economic policy

In a joint effort between two disciplines (Humanities and Governance) Marij Swinkels and Jorrit Steehouder published and article on Dutch economic policy narratives at home and in Europe. Ever since the last economic crisis (2008), Dutch leaders have moralized European economic policy through narratives of good and bad economic behavior. This now impedes their leeway to…

Mathieu Segers on Europe and Coronacrisis

Mathieu Segers reflected on Europe’s response to the coronacrisis in De Groene Amsterdammer, in his essay “Europa’s grote draai” (Europe’s big turn). Building on research done as part of the Blueprints-project both by Mathieu and Jorrit, the essay points at the European Payments Union as a practice of reconciliation that may serve today’s crisis of…

Gemeinschaft und Versöhnung

Together with Ruth Nientiedt (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Peter-Ben Smit wrote an article “Gemeinschaft und Versöhnung. Wiederannäherungen zwischen den alt-katholischen Kirchen Deutschlands und der Niederlande im Vorfeld der Gründung des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen” in Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte / Contemporary Church History 32: 183–197.

Peter-Ben Smit and Clemens van den Berg contribute to Dutch volume on religious studies

Peter-Ben Smit and Clemens van den Berg have both written a contribution for the new Dutch volume Wie is er bang voor religie? (‘Who’s afraid of religion?’, link in Dutch), edited by Joas Wagemakers and Lucien van Liere. In total, thirty religious scholars from Utrecht contributed essays on how their research remains relevant in light…

Eclipsing Atlantis: Trans‐Atlantic Multilateralism in Trade and Monetary Affairs as a Pre‐History to the Genesis of Social Market Europe (1942–1950)

Mathieu Segers published an article in a special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies that he co-edited with Rutger Claassen, Anna Gerbrandy and Sebastiaan Princen. The special issue is titled: Rethinking the European Social Market Economy. In his article, Mathieu reconstructs the trans-Atlantic institutional framework, within which multilateralism in post-war Western Europe could emerge.

A Wartime Narrative of Hope – Informal Construction of Europe

In January 2019, the chapter by Jorrit Steehouder and Clemens van den Berg about the Freiburger Bonhoeffer-Kreise and their wartime memorandum about post-war economic and political order for Europe was published in an edited volume entitled The Informal Construction of Europe. The volume was edited by Lennaert van Heumen and Mechthild Roos, and appeared in the…

Interwar Blueprints of Europe: Emotions, Experience and Expectation

Trineke Palm published an article on the role of emotions in Coudenhove-Kalergi’s discourse on European unity. The article is part of a special issue in Politics & Governance on interdisciplinary approaches to studying emotions within Politics and International Relations, edited by Alex Prior and Yuri van Hoef.

Mathieu Segers – book on the return of history in Europe

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, European integration was able to overcome German and European division. And the EU became a powerbloc in the world. Questions of identity and borders were postponed. In Europa en de terugkeer van de geschiedenis Mathieu Segers aims to show that Europe is all about ideas and power. Title: Europa en de…