Mr Bastiaan Bouwman

About

Mr Bastiaan Bouwman is a PhD candidate at the Department of International History of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on ecumenical human rights promotion in the Netherlands and Britain from the 1940s to the 1970s. He received Bachelor's degrees in History and Philosophy and a research Master's degree in History from the University of Amsterdam, where he wrote on the rise of Amnesty International in the Netherlands. In 2013, Bastiaan was a junior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Subsequently, Bastiaan was one of the inaugural fellows of Humanity in Action's Diversity and Diplomacy Fellowship.

Teaching

Mr Bastiaan Bouwman teaches the following courses at undergraduate level:

HY206: The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989

2015

• ‘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.

2013

• ‘Present at the Undoing. The Netherlands and the Multilateral Force’, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project November 2013, 9 pages plus 34 pages of translations.

2012

• 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 D.C. 2012) 674-707.
• '"Act like Britain." Anglo-Amerikaanse betrekkingen en het Britse vertrek uit de Perzische Golf, 1969-1972’ [‘”Act like Britain.” Anglo-American relations and the British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, 1969-1972’] Skript Historisch Tijdschrift Vol. 34 No. 2 (2012) 91-102.

• Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (2014)
• VSBfonds (2014)