MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND: AN INTRODUCTION

Breathtaking and promising: this is what the newly appointed Dutch Cabinet called the developments in the world and the opportunities for the Netherlands three weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall (Second Chamber 1989-1990, 14th assembly). The Soviet Union had pulled out of Afghanistan, the Berli...

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Hauptverfasser:	Kleistra, Yvonne, Arts, Gera, Klem, Martijn, Rem, Marijke, Knapen, Ben
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ambition Behavioral sciences Comparative politics Countries Development studies Executive branch Federal government structure Films, cinema Foreign policy Globalization Government Government cabinets Human geography International development International politics International relations Motivation Nation states National government Non state actors Personality psychology Political geography Political science Political sociology Politics Psychology Public administration Public policy SCIENCE: GENERAL ISSUES Social sciences
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Zusammenfassung:	Breathtaking and promising: this is what the newly appointed Dutch Cabinet called the developments in the world and the opportunities for the Netherlands three weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall (Second Chamber 1989-1990, 14th assembly). The Soviet Union had pulled out of Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall had fallen, and the totalitarian Eastern Bloc had vanished. There was a peace dividend to be harvested, and a new, better world was in the offing. Moments of euphoria prove to be hazardous benchmarks, as the difference with the situation two decades afterward could hardly be greater. Whether it is globalisation, Europe,