Why the Lion did not roar
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2016-08-31
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This research tries to answer why the Netherlands continued the bilateral Dutch-
Russian Year of 2013 while different diplomatic conflicts arose. As eventually even
diplomats proved to be unsafe, the Netherlands still send their king and queen to the
Russian Federation to attend a concert. Why did the Netherlands not cancel these
frivolous events given the diplomatic tensions between the countries? This is an
interesting question because it is a conflicting image of Dutch foreign policy. Besides
that it might give some insights into the priorities of Dutch foreign policy of the
Dutch government at the time.
This research will present the Dutch-Russian Year of 2013 as an example of
cultural diplomacy, whereas the choice of the Dutch government to continue the
bilateral year will be presented as a question of path-dependent behaviour. In order
for this research to explain the mechanisms that caused the continuation of the
bilateral year this research will apply the institutionalist approaches of rational choice
institutionalism and sociological institutionalism. The research looks for evidence
among official documents released by the Dutch government, news articles of
different media and three conducted interviews. In the end the research will
conclude that Russia is a huge economic player to the Netherlands and that the
Netherlands was bound by norms and identity.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen