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Holding Patterns: Air Transport and Foreign Policy in the Netherlands
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Although air transport is indispensable to modern society, we know little about the diplomatic efforts that establish airline services. Nonetheless, aviation features prominently in the spectrum of international relations: in conflicts between states, for example, the suspension of landing rights is one of the first acts to symbolize serious discord. In tracing the unique cooperation between government and industry, this historical study underscores aviation as a prominent, but understudied topic in Dutch foreign relations.
Although air transport is indispensable to modern society, we know little about the diplomatic efforts that establish airline services. Nonetheless, aviation features prominently in the spectrum of international relations: in conflicts between states, for example, the suspension of landing rights is one of the first acts to symbolize serious discord. In tracing the unique cooperation between government and industry, this historical study underscores aviation as a prominent, but understudied topic in Dutch foreign relations.
Marc Dierikx, Ph.D. (1988), Radboud University, is historian and senior researcher at KNAW's Huygens Institute in Amsterdam. He has published widely on Dutch foreign policy and on the history of aviation. His
Anthony Fokker, the Flying Dutchman who shaped American Aviation (Smithsonian, 2018) was adapted for dramatized tv production.
Jean Guillaume Petit was senior policy advisor at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dealing with air transport issues.
Jean Guillaume Petit was senior policy advisor at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dealing with air transport issues.
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