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This incisive study examines the role of the Netherlands in the October War and the oil crisis of 1973. The authors contend that the actions of the Dutch government were hypocritical: the Dutch government faced a domestic crisis when an oil embargo was levied against them by Arab countries for selling arms to Israel; yet after oil began arriving again two months later, the Dutch rejected a proposal for a stricter interventionist energy policy within the European Union. A probing and thought-provoking study, "The Netherlands and the Oil Crisis" draws on previously unavailable archival sources to shed new light on a pivotal moment in contemporary Dutch history.
List of contents
Contents - 6 Foreword - 10 Ch.1: War in the Middle East - 14 Ch.2: Difficulties - 42 Ch.3: European Divisions - 74 Ch.4: Domestic Measures - 98 Ch.5: A European Summit - 118 Ch.6: Rationing - 158 Ch.7: From Copenhagen to Washington - 192 Ch.8: Sweating it out - 222 Conclusion - 256 Notes - 266 Archival Records - 298 List of Acronyms and Terms - 302 Bibliography - 305 Index of Names - 314 Index of Subjects - 317
About the author
Duco Hellema is professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Utrecht. Cees Wiebes is lecturer in International Relations at the Political Science Department of the University of Amsterdam. Toby Witte is lecturer in Political Science at the Rotterdam Polytechnic.
