Rimko van der Maar

Rimko van der Maar is an Assistant Professor in History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. His dissertation (Utrecht University 2007) covers the Netherlands and the Vietnam War. He specialises in the history of Dutch diplomacy and foreign relations, particularly during the Cold War, and in Third World solidarity movements from the 1950’s to 1970’s. His new book, In de ban van Vietnam. De Vietnamese onafhankelijkheidsstrijd en het Westen is written for a broad Dutch audience and discusses North and South Vietnamese propaganda strategies during the Vietnam War.