English Public Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic, 1609-1619

Helmer Helmers

doi:10.1080/0268117X.2021.1924988

English Public Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic, 1609-1619

Helmer Helmers

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This article studies the strategies and effects of early modern public diplomacy. It does so by analysing how two English ambassadors stationed in the Dutch Republic during the Truce period (1609–1621), Ralph Winwood and Dudley Carleton, used print in their diplomatic negotiations. Focusing on the Vorstius affair (1611–1613) and the affair of the Balance (1617–1619), the article shows how Dutch politico-religious controversies became entangled with foreign policy. Winwood and Carleton, it argues, had a clear public diplomacy strategy in which print played a prominent part. Their public interventions contributed to the escalation of the Dutch conflict, and severely damaged both the domestic and international reputation of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Thus, English public diplomacy helped to bring about the fall of this leading statesman.

Original language	English
Article number	437
Pages (from-to)	413
Number of pages	24
Journal	The Seventeenth Century
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1924988
Publication status	Published - 05 Jul 2021

Keywords

Anglo-Dutch relations
public diplomacy
Spanish-Dutch Truce 1609-1621
Winwood, Sir Ralph, 1563-1617
Carleton, Dudley, 1st Viscount Dorchester, 1573-1632

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