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Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem and Henk de Smaele (eds) To Kill a Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905) London, Palgrave, 2018, XIII-281 p.

Daniel Laqua
Diplomatic History
2021 4
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“La Belgique a pris sa place dans le Céleste Empire”. Emmanuel de Wouters als diplomatiek adviseur in het semikoloniale Qing-China (1895-1899)

ELINE CEULEMANS

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, Western powers began to more aggressively impose themselves on the semi-colonial Qing Empire. This inter-imperial competition certainly did not prevent cooperation and continuous exchange of imperial practices, and these powers found each other in imposing a joint discourse of modernity. To pay lip service to a certain "standard of civilization", the leaders of such semi-colonial states appointed Western diplomatic advisers.

Diplomatic History
2021 3
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Cementing the Transatlantic Alliance. The Construction of the Belgian Chancery in Washington, D.C. (1945-1957)

Bram De Maeyer
Fredie Floré et Anne-Françoise Morel

During the heydays of the transatlantic alliance between Belgium and the United States, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs built a new chancery – the office section of an embassy – in Washington, D.C. In historical research on diplomatic architecture, authors have mainly focused on the building policy of (former) great powers such as the United States, Great Britain, France and Russia. These studies examine to what extent these states have used such diplomatic building projects as an instrument of national representation on foreign soil.

Cold War
Diplomatic History
Architecture
2021 3
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Lions and kangaroos : mobilising the Anzac legend in the Ypres salient

Matthew Haultain-Gall

In 1936, the Australian War Memorial acquired two stone lions that once guarded the Menin Gate entrance to the Belgian town of Ypres. The Memorial’s director, John Treloar, felt the Memorial had scored a “great scoop” because of their “historical value”. However, when the lions arrived in Canberra, it was apparent the damage they sustained during the war meant they would need to undergo some form of restoration. Unfortunately, little progress was made in this endeavour for several decades and the lions did not end up going on permanent display until 1991.

First World War
Politics of Memory
Diplomatic History
2021 1-2
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MICHAEL F. PALO, Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies. Learning from the Belgian Experience, Leiden/Boston, Brill/Nijhoff, 2019, 559 p.

Nel de Mûelenaere
Diplomatic History
Diplomacy
2020 3-4
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MICHEL DUMOULIN, CATHERINE LANNEAU LANNEAU (ed.), La biographie individuelle et collective dans le champ des relations internationales (Enjeux Internationaux, Vol. 39), Bruxelles, P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2016, 230 p.

Dirk Martin
International Relations
Diplomatic History
2019 2-3
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La Belgique face à la question allemande pendant la seconde crise de Berlin (1958-1961)

Thomas Briamont
Diplomatic History
Cold War
2020 2
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Belgium and Mobutu’s Zaïre : Analysis of an Eventful Era

Colin Hendrickx

This article addresses the relations between Belgium and Zaire during the time of Mobutu Sese Seko’s rule of Congo/Zaire between 1965 and 1997. Several authors have focussed on the importance of the Cold War, or the existence of Zaire’s dependency relationship with Belgium. This study, however, argues that the Cold War was not the singular decisive factor. Through his foreign policy, Mobutu approached his African neighbours, Eastern European countries, China and North Korea, in order to actively shape his own policy whereby he sometimes acted against the interests of his Western allies.

Diplomatic History
International Relations
Zaire
2019 1
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What is (New in) New Diplomatic History

Houssine Alloul and Michael Auwers
Diplomatic History
Historiography
2018 4
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Expansion vs. Neutrality. How Belgian Diplomats dealt with the 'military question', 1895-1914.

Michaël Auwers

This article investigates the attitude of Belgian diplomats in the debate about the creation of a stronger army in the decades before the First World War. Closely reading the writings of three members of the diplomatic corps and comparing their discourse with the words of their colleagues, it argues that the current historiographical narrative on the diplomats’ stance towards militarization is in need of revision.

Military history
Diplomatic History
2016 2
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Les objectifs et déterminants de la politique étrangère belge. Le cas du conflit austro-prussien de 1866

Christophe CHEVALIER
Diplomatic History
Military history
Foreign Relations
2017 1
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Italie-Belgique, 1861-1915. Relations diplomatiques, culturelles et économiques

Michel Dumoulin
Foreign Relations
Foreign Affairs
Diplomatic History
1982 2-3
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