Someone who has been out of the Netherlands since the mid-1990s can only be stunned by the turns the country has taken: it is now legitimate and indeed encouraged to talk about Holland, we have mysteriously turned anti-European, and the immigratio...

The ISS conference ‘Crisis of Capitalism? Crisis of Development’ highlighted the great and probably increasing diversity in perspectives on this ‘global’ crisis. One the one hand there is the perception of and focus on the nucleus of the crisis, t...