Dr. Bastiaan Bouwman

Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University

Department of International History

LSE

Forschung und Projekte

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Universal Rights in a Divided World: The Human Rights Engagement of the World Council of Churches from the 1940s to the 1970s

Frühere Position(en)

PhD student in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Doctoral Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
Managing Editor at Cold War History Journal

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Universal Rights in a Divided World: The Human Rights Engagement of the World Council of Churches from the 1940s to the 1970s (dissertation: LSE 2019)

Artikel

‘From Religious Freedom to Social Justice: The Human Rights Engagement of the Ecumenical Movement from the 1940s to the 1970s’, Journal of Global History, 13, 2 (2018) 252-273 (part of special issue on ‘The Theory and Practice of Ecumenism’).

‘Outraged, Yet Moderate and Impartial. The Rise of Amnesty International in the Netherlands, 1961-1980’, Low Countries Historical Review, 132, 4 (2017) 53-74.

‘Nairobi, 1975: The World Council of Churches and Human Rights’, in: Fabian Klose et al., eds., Online Atlas on the History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights, http://wiki.ieg-mainz.de/ghra/articles/bouwman-nairobi, 7 pages.

‘Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Why Human Rights and Democracy Promotion Are Better Off Separate’, in: Anthony Chase, ed., Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity: Select Essays from the 2014 Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship (New York: Humanity in Action Press, 2015) 97-115.

‘Present at the Undoing. The Netherlands and the Multilateral Force’, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/present-at-the-undoing (November 2013) 9 pages plus 34 pages of translations.

Rimko van der Maar and Bastiaan Bouwman, trans., ‘The Netherlands, the Missile Crisis, and Cuban-Dutch Relations, 1962-1964. Documents from the Dutch Archives’, in: James G. Hershberg and Christian F. Ostermann, ed., The Global Cuban Missile Crisis at 50: New Evidence from Beyond the Iron, Bamboo, and Sugarcane Curtains, and Beyond (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2012) 674-707.

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

Human rights; internationalism; religion; the global Cold War; decolonization; nongovernmental organizations; global history; transnational history; refugees; migration