The partner institutions of the European Summer School on Cold War History and the Cold War Research Network in the Netherlands are pleased to announce that the 10th edition of the School will be hosted by the Global Cold War Research Group at Utrecht University, on 1-3 September 2021. This will be a fully virtual event. Sessions will be held between 10AM and 6PM,…

We are proud to announce that on the 18th of March, the Cold War Research Network will be hosting Dr Eline van Ommen’s lecture on The Nicaraguan Revolution and the Cold War: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in Western Europe, 1977-1990.  Through the lens of Nicaraguan and Western European relations during the final decade of the Cold…

We are proud to host Dr Sielke Kelner on the 22nd of April. She will be presenting her paper “Bibles into Toilet Rolls: Ronald Reagan, the Christian Right in Congress, and Romania in the 1980s”. In June 1985, the Wall Street Journal (WST) published an article titled: The Bibles as Romanian Toilet Paper. The American…

We are most delighted to announce our next event. On Thursday 11th of February, Dr Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard will give a lecture in which he presents the main arguments of his new book. The book  portrays the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the…

We proudly present Dr Ben de Jong’s newest publication “Op de bres voor de rechtsstaat in het verzet en bij de BVD: Ad de Jonge, 1919 – 2002”. This book is part memoir, part biography and an addition to the historiography of Dutch intelligence and security services. Ad de Jonge was an important figure in…

On January 14, Dr. Eleni Braat and Dr. Ben de Jong will be telling us about their exciting work on double agents during the Cold War. Their research project is based on a series of oral history interviews with a former double agent, who operated for the Dutch Security Service and the CIA against the…

From all of us at the Cold War Research Network, we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We look forward to welcoming all of you to our new events in the coming year.  

We are most excited to present the newest book of Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard titled ‘Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy‘ The book  portrays the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It furthermore…

Revisiting the Spanish Question: The Netherlands, Spain and the United Nations during the early Cold War, 1945-1950 Dr. Stefanie F. M. Massink, Utrecht University s.f.m.massink@uu.nl In 2020, the United Nations (UN) celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Netherlands was one of the 51 states that joined the multilateral organization from the start in 1945. In the…

Cold War Research Member Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes  has recently published “Britain and the United States in Greece: Anglo-American Relations and the Origins of the Cold War”  The book reveals how the relationship between Britain and the US developed in this formative period, arguing that Britain used the fast-escalating tensions of the Cold War to…