In The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 Constantin Ardeleanu offers a history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to…

This month, Cambridge University Press published Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815. This book is an English translation of the book Tegen de terreur: Hoe Europa…

Joep Schenk, Erik de Lange, Beatrice de Graaf and Wouter Klem recently contributed to a new volume on Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands. The volume is edited by Ruud…

IO BIO: Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries Generals of International Organizations includes a biography of John Stokes, the first British commissioner in the European Commission of the Danube (1856-1871) and de…

New publication by Constantin Ardeleanu, ‘Fishing in the Lower Danube and Its Floodplain from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century’, in Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen and Ruthy Gertwagen (eds.), The Inland…

New publication by Constantin Ardeleanu, ‘Foreign migrant communities in the Danubian ports of Brăila and Galaţi (1829-1914)’ in the vol. Olga Katsiardi-Hering and Maria A. Stassinopoulou (eds.), Across the Danube….

Scholars are increasingly focusing on the non-physical aspects of war in order to explain ‘why big nations lose small wars’. One of the central arguments in the debate is that it is increasingly important to explain what success will look like to the local population, opponents, the international audience and the public at home, and to convince them of the official storyline.

Joep Schenk recently published a new article in the Dutch journal ‘Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis‘ (Journal for Naval History), titled ‘War-time opportunities. Rhine sailors versus the Coal-trading union, 1914-1918’. Abstract: During the First World…

In their new book Terrorists on Trial: A Performative Perspective, editors Prof. Dr Beatrice de Graaf and Prof. Dr Alex P. Schmid present a performative perspective on terrorism trials, drawing attention to the…

Joep Schenk was interviewed by Nieuwsblad Transport on the Rhine Commission (Central Commission for Navigation of the Rhine, CCNR) and its contribution to the creation of a European security culture in the nineteenth…

A special issue on radicalisation and terrorism of the journal Justitiële verkenningen (Judicial explorations, no.2, 2016) explores the attractiveness of IS to (islamic) European yougsters and the apocalyptic nature of IS ideology….

Ozan Ozavci recently wrote a paper in Turkish titled “Bir Jön Türk’ün Günlüğü ve 1915”. It is about The 1915 Armenian Genocide through the lens of a Young Turks’ personal notes and correspondence. H….

Constantin Ardeleanu, team member of the ERC Secure project recently published a monograph titled “International Trade and Diplomacy at the Lower Danube: the Sulina Question and the Economic Premises of…

Few studies tracing the history of liberalism have taken into account that its reception in non-Western or westernising countries, in the form of the denial or acceptance of its core…

Schenk, J. (2014) Rotterdam’s port barons, Ruhr industrialists and the state. Transnational entrepreneurship along the Rhine 1870-1914. 18th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association (EBHA): Comparative Business History….

This article discusses the establishment, ideology and actions of the Liberal International and its Turkish group the Society for the Dissemination of Free Ideas (SDFI). The SDFI was the first…

Beatrice de Graaf, ‘Nederland en de collectieve veiligheid’, in: Jacco Pekelder, Remco Raben en Mathieu Segers (eds.), De wereld volgens Nederland. Nederlandse buitenlandse politiek in historisch perspectief (Amsterdam: Boom 2015). Website Boom…

This article supplements Anglo- or Prussian dominated readings of the Vienna Conference by focusing more on its beginnings, on alternative scenarios of a Dutch-German union and on the process of…

Joep Schenk, ‘Rotterdam’s port barons, Ruhr industrialists and the state. Transnational entrepreneurship along the Rhine 1870-1914’. 18th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association (EBHA): Comparative Business History. Contrasting…

Wouter Klem, ‘Van kranten venten tot massademonstratie: de stemrechtstrijd in Den Haag van 1880 tot 1887’, Jaarboek van Geschiedkundige Vereniging Die Haghe (2014) pp. 96-123 Klem, Die Haghe (first page)