By Ben Knapen, Gera Arts, Yvonne Kleistra, Martijn Klem, Marijke Rem
A result of speedy upward thrust of globalization, the Netherlands hasn't ever been extra politically, socially, and economically hooked up to different nations. to deal with this improvement, the clinical Council for presidency coverage is delivering new reflections on Dutch international coverage during this file. crucial feedback comprise extra governmental transparency, clever use of nongovernmental companies, and adapting govt constructions to exploit the Netherlands’ place inside Europe.
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Particularly since the turn of the millennium, Dutch policy has focused on the global energy issue, its main ambition being the development of sustainable global energy management. Also in the long term, energy should be available and accessible to all, and its use should cease to be harmful to the living environment and to future generations. This pursuit comprises a range of related issues: the problem of the scarcity or depletion of energy sources (including our own Dutch natural gas supplies), the explosively growing demand for energy by rising powers such as China and India (International Energy Agency 2007), the problem of greenhouse gas emissions due to the use of oil and gas (climate change), and rising tensions between countries and regional political crises that are predicated on energy (for example, the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine over gas supply, which flares up repeatedly).
Know-how, expertise, and contacts produce authority, and there may be more advantages than disadvantages in representing a small country rather than a big country (Klem and Kester 2010). The unique role played by the Netherlands in international financial institutions shortly after the Second World War illustrates that the country played its full-size role in the past and that this was also beneficial to a free-trading country like the Netherlands. At the same time, we must beware of overestimating our powers.
Another example is the impending dichotomy between the nation and the economy: as economic networks are eluding nation states, it is becoming increasingly difficult to consider a multinational as an American or a Dutch one. Social elites in private service networks, in particular, are getting increasingly detached from their social environment as they are turning into the champions of globalisation and Europeanisation (Reich 1991). This is what Beck was referring to when he used the phrase Ortspolygamie (Beck 1997).