Dr Maarten Van Alstein

Dr Maarten Van Alstein
Researcher

Leuvenseweg 86 - 1000 Brussels
E-mail: maarten.vanalstein[at]vlaamsparlement.be
T +32 (0)2 552 4597 | F +32 (0)2 552 4408

Maarten Van Alstein (°1978) holds a graduate degree in History, a candidate degree in Law, and a Master in International Politics. Previously, he has worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, where he received a doctor's degree with a dissertation on the Belgian diplomatic elite and the origins of the Cold War. Since May 2010, he works as researcher at the Peace Institute.

Within the research programme on 'Peace & society' he focuses on remembrance and the politics of memory. Within the programme 'Arms trade and arms production', he conducts research on gun control and firearms possession in Belgium.

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Selected bibliography

 

  • N. Duquet & M. Van Alstein (2011), Vuurwapens. Handel, bezit en gebruik, Leuven & Den Haag: Acco, 243 p.N.
  • M. Van Alstein (2011), 'From Enigma to Enemy: Paul-Henri Spaak, the Belgian Diplomatic Elite, and the Soviet Union, 1944-1945', Journal of Cold War Studies, 13(3), p. 126-148.
  • F. Migneault, I. la O' and M. Van Alstein (2010), War Commemoration Reconsidered, Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute.
  • M. Van Alstein (2009), 'The Meaning of Hostile Bipolarization. Interpreting the Origins of the Cold War', Cold War History, 9(3), p. 301-319.
  • M. Van Alstein (2007), 'No More War'? Belgian Reception of the League of Nations and Arbitration after the First World War, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 18(1), p.133-153.
 
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