@article{2017:bruin:indonesian,
title = {Indonesian Decolonisation and the Dutch Attitude Towards the Establishment of the EEC’s Association Policy, 1945-1963},
year = {2017},
note = {Recent research has shown that (neo-)colonial concepts played a larger
role in ideas about European collaboration in the 1950s than had been
previously assumed. However, this recent international discussion is
almost exclusively based on the French case. In contrast with this
French case, the Dutch case is highly ambivalent. On the one hand, the
Dutch enthusiasm for the European project in the 1950s was a
consequence of the (violent) decolonisation of the Dutch East
Indies/Indonesia. The EEC’s association policy, which would open the
market of the six founding members to non-European countries and
territories that had “special relations” with Belgium, France,
Italy and the Netherlands, was regarded rather hesitantly before being
accepted. There were fears of getting involved financially and
politically in new decolonisation wars. On the other hand some Dutch
politicians initially seemed to have a keen eye for the utility of the
EEC’s association policy and the European Development Fund as a
means to remain present in the remaining former imperial regions.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {211--226},
author = {BRUIN, Robin DE},
volume = {23},
number = {2}
}