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dhr. dr. R.J. (Robin) de Bruin


  • Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
    Capaciteitsgroep Europese studies
  • Spuistraat  134
    1012 VB  Amsterdam
  • R.J.deBruin@uva.nl
    T:  0205254468
    T:  0205252280

Courses 2014/2015

Areas of research

Robin de Bruin (1971), historian at the department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies, has published on the issue of European integration in Dutch politics as well as on the Dutch civil service under Nazi rule. He teaches courses about the "ordering" of modern Europe, extraparliamentary political movements in the 1960s and 1970s, European integration history, expanding government interference in the 19th and 20th century and historiography.

Fields of interest

History of politics: technocratic ideology, (neo)corporatism, Europeanisation and domestic change, the transformation of the European idea. Cultural history: work ethic in Europe in the 19th and 20th century, Moluccan cultural "nationalism" in exile, "New-Feminism" and fear of "sex-extinction" in the Netherlands in the 1920s and 1930s, the biography as a historical genre.

To be published: book chapter

  • ""Europe" as a "Hothouse" for Dutch Domestic Politics, 1948-1967," in Antonio Varsori et al. (eds.),  European Political Cultures and Parties and the European Integration Process, 1945-1992, Bruxelles/Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2015. "The expectation of an integrated Europe and the “Europe” that actually emerged in the 1950s and 1960s had unintended side-effects on Dutch domestic political culture itself."

Publications: book

  • Elastisch Europa. De integratie van Europa en de Nederlandse politiek, 1947-1968, Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 2014. [Reviewed by Caroline de Gruyter, NRC Handelsblad, 9 May 2014: http://www.nrclux.nl/elastisch-europa-robin-de-bruin/nl/product/670482/ ; Wim van Meurs, “Drie studies over Nederland en de Europese integratie,” in Carla van Baalen et al. (eds.), Het geld regeert. Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis 2014, Amsterdam, Boom, 2014, pp. 195-197.]

    The Elastic European Ideal takes issue with the dominant "realist" and "neo-realist" views in Dutch historiography, in which European integration is considered as a specific form of foreign policy, in which a major role is attributed to national interests in the process of integration and which devalues the role of ideas and ideals in the integration process. The Dutch national interest certainly played a dominant role in the discourse of civil servants and ministers on the question of European integration, but within the political parties ideological arguments were emphasised.

Publications: handbook

  • Wim van Meurs, Robin de Bruin, Carla Hoetink, Karin van Leeuwen, Carlos Reijnen en Liesbeth van de Grift (eds.), Europa in alle staten. Zestig jaar geschiedenis van de Europese integratie, Nijmegen, Vantilt, 2013. [professional]

Publications: book chapters

  • "Projector or Projection Screen? The Portuguese Estado Novo and "Renewal" in the Netherlands (1933-1946)," in Carlos Reijnen & Marleen Rensen (eds.),  European Encounters. Intellectual Exchange and the Rethinking of Europe 1914-1945. (European Studies. An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics, 32), Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2014, pp. 87-100. [academic non refereed]
  • "Dutch Politics in the 1950s and the Myth of Inevitable Europeanization," in Jolán Róka (ed.), Globalisation, Europeanization and Other Transnational Phenomena. Description, Analyses and Generalizations, Budapest, Századvég Kiadó, 2011, pp. 382-390. [academic non refereed]
  • "Het nieuwe Europa. Hans Linthorst Homan, lid van de Hoge Autoriteit (1962-1967)," in Gerrit Voerman, Bert van den Braak and Carla van Baalen (eds.), De Nederlandse eurocommissarissen, Amsterdam, Boom, 2010, pp. 65-92. [academic refereed] [Reviewed by Wim van Meurs, ETVT, Vol. 29, 2010, pp. 171-178; Annemarie van Heerikhuizen, “Spiegelruit aan diggelen,” Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Vol. 124, 2011, 1, pp. 151-152: http://www.ingentaconnect.com.proxy.uba.uva.nl:2048/content/aup/tg/2011/00000124/00000001/art00036 ]
  • "The "Elastic" European Ideal in the Netherlands, 1948-1958. Images of a Future Integrated Europe and the Transformation of Dutch Politics," in Marloes Beers & Jenny Raflik (dir./eds.), Cultures Nationales et Identité Communautaire: un Défi pour l'Europe? / National Cultures and Common Identity. A Challenge for Europe?, Bruxelles/Brussels, P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2010, pp. 207-216. [academic refereed]
  • "Cees Hazenbosch en de "eeuwige beginselen van Gods woord." Antirevolutionaire beginselpolitiek en de integratie van Europa in de jaren vijftig," in G.J. Schutte et al. (eds.), Grenzeloos christelijk-sociaal. Internationale activiteiten van de Christelijk-Sociale Beweging. Cahier over de geschiedenis van de Christelijk-Sociale Beweging 8, Amsterdam/Utrecht, Uitgeverij Aksant/CNV, 2009, pp. 52-62. [academic non refereed]  [Reviewed by Patrick Pasture, Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden / The Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 126, 2011, http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/index.php/bmgn/article/download/URN%3ANBN%3ANL%3AUI%3A10-1-108514/7420 ]

Publications: articles (selection)

  • "De EU als Barbapapa," online magazine Waterstof. Bubbels voor progressief Nederland #72, October 2014. [webcontent, professional]
  • "Met een geladen pistool naar Brussel," Jong in Europa, 28 April 2014. [webcontent, professional]
  • "Dr. Hans Max Hirschfeld, man zonder moreel kompas? Over de ontsporing van beeldvorming," Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden / The Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 123, 2008, pp. 433-445. [academic journal article, refereed]  [Reply Meindert Fennema: "Hirschfeld als zondebok of heilige," Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden / The Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 123, 2008, pp. 446-452, http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/index.php/bmgn/article/download/6850/6904 ]
  • "Het politieke compromis als exportartikel. De PvdA en de Europese dimensie van het streven naar vernieuwing (1948-1954)," Nieuwste Tijd. Kwartaalschrift voor Eigentijdse Geschiedenis, Vol. 4 - 3, 2005/2006, pp. 41-49. [academic journal article]
  • "Geobsedeerd door calorieën. Arie van der Zwans boek over Hirschfeld neigt naar karaktermoord," Biografie Bulletin, Vol. 15 - 2, 2005, pp. 44-54. [academic journal article] [Reply Arie van der Zwan:  "Hirschfeld," Biografie Bulletin, Vol. 15 - 3, 2005, pp. 86-90.]

Publications: book reviews

  • "De weg naar "Europa" van de "netwerker" Wim Beyen," in C.C.van Baalen et al. (eds.), De waan van de dag. Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis 2006, Amsterdam, Boom, 2006, pp. 188-189. [Review of: W.H. Weenink, Bankier van de wereld. Bouwer van Europa. Johan Willem Beyen 1897-1976, Amsterdam/Rotterdam, Prometheus/NRC Handelsblad, 2005.]
  • "A. van der Zwan, H.M. Hirschfeld. In de ban van de macht. Biografie, Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, 2004," Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden / The Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 121, 2006, pp. 169-170.
  • "George Harinck, Roel Kuiper and Peter Bak (eds.), De Antirevolutionaire Partij 1829-1980, Hilversum, Verloren, 2001," Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, Vol. 83, 2005, pp. 511-515.
  • "Eerste proefschrift programma De Natiestaat: Conservatieven in de negentiende eeuw," De Laatste Tijd. Nieuwsbrief van het Nederlands Centrum voor Contemporaine Geschiedenis, No.3, February 2001. [Review of: Ronald van Raak, In naam van het volmaakte. Conservatisme in Nederland in de negentiende eeuw van Gerrit Jan Mulder tot Jan Heemskerk Azn., Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 2001.]

Selection lectures & conference papers

  • "Standbeeld of tijdsbeeld? Contextualisering in biografieën van ‘Europeanen’," Levend Europa. Europa vanuit biografisch perspectief. Afscheidssymposium dr. Anneke Ribberink, VU University, Amsterdam, 17 December 2014.
  • "Europe as a ‘Greater Holland’. European Integration and Dutch politics in the 1950s and 1960s," ACCESS EUROPE. European Identity and Culture lecture series, no. 2, with comments by discussants prof.dr. Meindert Fennema and dr. Virginie Mamadouh, Amsterdam, 8 October 2014.
  • "De Europese Unie, bemoeizuchtige superstaat of neoliberaal project?," (panel "NU! Populisme in de Europese verkiezingen, met: Carlos Reijnen, Sarah de Lange en Robin de Bruin"), Illustere school - Spui 25, Amsterdam, 15 May 2014.
  • "Elastisch Europa," Broodje kennis - Spui 25, Amsterdam, 13 May 2014.
  • "Postwar Ideological Convergence in Dutch Politics as a Form of Europeanization" (panel about "European integration as a cause for consensus or conflict in domestic politics, 1950-2010"), Council for European Studies: Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability, Amsterdam, June 25-27, 2013.
  • "Salazar’s Estado Novo as an Example for Socio-Economic and Political "Renewal" in the Netherlands, 1933-1941," Crisis and Mobilization since 1789. Second Conference of the International Scholars’ Network History of Societies and Socialisms (Hosas), International Institute of Social History Amsterdam 22-24 February 2013.
  • ""Europe" as a Hothouse for Dutch Domestic Politics, 1946-1968," European Political Cultures and Parties and the European Integration Process, 1945-1992, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca / University of Padua 10-12 November 2011.
  • "Dutch Politics in the 1950s and the Myth of Inevitable Europeanization," Globalization, Europeanization and Other Transnational Phenomena, Budapest College of Communication and Business 6-7 May 2011.
  • "The "Elastic" European Ideal. "Europe" as a Cause for Change in Dutch Domestic Politics, 1948-1963," Die Geschichte der Europäischen Union: Neue Forschungsansätze jenseits der Diplomatiegeschichte (Graduiertenkolleg Prof.Dr. Wolfram Kaiser, University of Portsmouth), Amsterdam Institute for German Studies 25 March 2011.
  • "Projector or Projection Screen? The Portuguese Estado Novo as an Example for Ideas on "Renewal" in the Netherlands, 1933-1946," European Encounters. Intellectual Exchange and the Rethinking of Europe (1918-1945), University of Amsterdam 27-28 January 2011.
  • "Transfer of Corporatism? Corporatism and "Renewal" in the Netherlands, 1939-1946," European Social Science and History Conference 2010, Ghent 13-17 April 2010.

  • "The "Elastic" European Ideal. Images in Dutch Politics of a Future Federal Europe, 1948-1958," Colloque RICHIE IV: Cultures Nationales et Identité Communautaire: un Défi pour l'Union européenne,  University of Cergy-Pontoise / University of Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne 11-13 December 2008. [See: Marie Julie Chenard and Marloes Beers, "4th RICHIE Conference: "National Cultures and European Common Identity. A Challenge for the European Union" (11-13 December 2008)," Journal of European Integration History, Vol. 15, 2009, pp. 181-185, http://www.eu-historians.eu/uploads/Dateien/jeih-29%281%29.pdf ]

  • "Ideas of Europe in the Dutch Protestant Antirevolutionaire Partij and the Dutch Labour Party during the late 1940s and 1950s," European Identity and the Second World War, University of Amsterdam 10-11 December 2007.
  • "Europe and the Recovery of Justice: Post-War Dutch Political Visions," European Social Science and History Conference 2006, Amsterdam 22-25 March 2006.

Unpublished work

  • "Duitsland, de basis van onze welvaart. Hans Max Hirschfeld, zijn visie op Duitsland...," Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, 1998.

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  • R. de Bruin (2013). Vele wegen naar Europa. In W. van Meurs, R. de Bruin, C. Hoetink, K. van Leeuwen, C. van Reijnen & L. van de Grift (Eds.), Europa in alle staten: zestig jaar geschiedenis van de Europese integratie (pp. 29-78, 303-304). Nijmegen: Vantilt.

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