The Myth of Hollanditis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11262025 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard C Eichenberg (0000-0002-8239-8272, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2889 • E-ISSN: 1531-4804 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2538599 |
| OpenAlex | W2053092887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
Recent events in the Netherlands have given unexpected satisfaction to the aspiration to be biggest of the small among members of the NATO Alliance. In fact, popular questioning of security policy has led some observers to diagnose a Dutch disease-Hollanditis-to describe a variety of neutralist and pacifist symptoms evident in Western Europe.1 Moreover, the fact that the are one of two eventual recipient countries to have delayed final approval of intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) deployment has heightened interest in politics as a case study of the increasingly difficult task faced by all NATO governments in legitimizing security policy with domestic opinion. Yet, at least in the United States, concern and curiosity about politics can easily end in confusion. To the outsider, politics can be a perplexing series of puzzles. The political party system is certainly complicated: since World War II, over twenty parties representing religious, economic, and ideological interests have competed in at least one election. Further, even the most general categories used to describe party positions in Western democracies seem inappropriate when applied in the Netherlands. Here the
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The changing role of the Netherlands in the Atlantic Alliance
The Nuclearization of Language
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |