Hip Hip Hooray and Thank You Marshall
Gratitude, Emotion and the Mediation of Post-War Dutch–US Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7150874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorrit Van Den Berk (0000-0002-2495-1586, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author), Albertine Bloemendal (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 258-275 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777324000444 |
| OpenAlex | W4405829562 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This article conceptualises a transatlantic diplomacy of gratitude that developed in the context of the Marshall Plan as a case of emotional diplomacy by focusing on a Dutch commemorative tradition that celebrates the US aid programme. It shows that US Marshall Planners carefully refrained from explicit demands of gratitude and that it was the Dutch government, rather, that initiated a discourse of gratitude for US aid. Through the ways in which they invoked and embodied expressions of gratitude, the Dutch mediated and reframed their country's post-war demotion from a global empire to an aid-dependent country. This case, then, allows us to understand how the Netherlands strategically reconceptualised its position in a post-Second World War power structure dominated by the United States, while demonstrating how the careful navigation of the international emotional landscape played an important but as yet underexplored role in the diplomatic interactions of the post-war years
Gratitude · Mediation · Political science · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · Military History and Strategy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Remaking France
“Easily Emotional” and “Always Inclined to Extremes.” Ambassador Herman van Roijen and Dutch Anxiety about American Anti-Communism, 1947–53
Hatred after War
"A Test of Sentiments"
The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans
Maintaining Transatlantic Community
The Intermediary is the Message
Irresistible Empire
The Marshall Plan. America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952
The Dutch Encounter with the American Century
Marshall plan publicity and propaganda in Italy and Ireland, 1947-1951
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