Publicaties

The principle of state neutrality vis-a-vis religion and belief is contested and illusive. Some scholars even label it an impossible principle. Nevertheless, the meanings and functions assigned to neutrality are often determinative of, among others, the scope of the right to manifest one's religion in public institutions. Focusing on recent developments in Europe, this article makes two claims: one conceptual and the other doctrinal. The ...

The permanent neutrality imposed on Belgium by the great powers (1830-1839) seems a precursor of a system of mandatory arbitration and the outlawing of war. At least, this image transpires in the writings of Ernest Nys (1903) and Edouard Descamps (1902), prominent voices of the 'Gentle Civilizer of Nations'. Sixty years earlier, geopolitical circumstance, state practice and classical law of nations doctrine had brought Wilhelm Arendt (1845) to a ...

This article examines the relationship between the concept of neutrality in community mediation and partisan party politics in Nepal. Focusing on one donor-sponsored, US model-based community mediation programme in the Terai, this article contributes to a growing literature on authority formation and the role of party politicians in post-conflict Nepal. It argues that both neutrality and bias in dispute settlement are constitutive of building ...

Contribution on the secret negotiations held in The Hague in the Winter of 1734-1735 during the War of the Polish Succession. The neutral Dutch Republic and Britain proposed a peace plan to France, which had previously agreed to neutralise the Southern Low Countries, controlled by belligerent Austria, to keep the Dutch Republic out of the war. This analysis is based on the lengthy memoires drawn up by Nicolas-Louis Le Dran, top civil servant in ...

Contribution on the secret negotiations held in The Hague in the Winter of 1734-1735 during the War of the Polish Succession. The neutral Dutch Republic and Britain proposed a peace plan to France, which had previously agreed to neutralise the Southern Low Countries, controlled by belligerent Austria, to keep the Dutch Republic out of the war. This analysis is based on the lengthy memoires drawn up by Nicolas-Louis Le Dran, top civil servant in ...

BACKGROUND: Young's Schema Focused Therapy (SFT) is gaining popularity in the treatment of older adults. In the context of this therapy, the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) was developed to assess the early maladaptive schemas (EMS). EMS are considered to be relatively stable over time, but research shows that questionnaires often lack face validity in older adults, which makes it difficult to investigate EMS in older adults and their stability ...

Neutrality is one of the most controversial issues in public international law and international relations history. Its remoteness from the United Nations system of collective security has rendered its discussion less topical. The significance of contemporary self-proclaimed ‘permanent neutrality’ is limited. Recent scholarship has taken up the theme as a general narrative of nineteenth century international relations: between the Congress of ...

Introduction to the collective volume "In the Shadow of the Great Powers. Neutrality and the Law of the Sea in the Long Eighteenth Century (1650-1800)"