Legally Sanctioned Apologies: Rawagedeh, South Sulawesi, and Dutch ReticenceIn the summer of 2013, for the first time in history, the Netherlands decided to officially apologise for crimes committed by its troops during ...

This brief response discusses the principal themes raised by the three commentaries. In particular, it re-assesses my interpretation in The Sorrows of Belgium (2012) of the political normalisation of Belgium which occurred ...

In his book The Sorrows of Belgium Martin Conway uses the Belgian case to look at the restoration of liberal parliamentary states in Europe between 1945 and 1947. Nico Wouters’ contribution focuses on three elements brought ...

The Sorrows of Belgium provides a very rich and beautifully written account of Belgium’s transition from a war-torn society at the beginning of 1944 to a stable, independent democracy by the end of 1947. However, in stressing ...

On the surface one might assume Martin Conway’s The Sorrows of Belgium. Liberation and political reconstruction 1944-1947 (Oxford, 2012) is exactly what its title implies - a book about the difficult early post-war years ...