Слово головного редактора

De jaren 1947-1991 waren de periode van de Koude Oorlog. Twee hegemoniale machtsblokken stonden lijnrecht en tot de tanden toe bewapend tegenover elkaar. Dit conflict overschaduwde de internationale en nationale verhoudingen in de wereld. De Koude Oorlog was in veel opzichten een unieke periode in de geschiedenis. Tegelijkertijd vormde wat in deze periode internationaal politiek en economisch tot stand was gekomen, het uitgangspunt van waaruit na afloop van het conflict nieuwe wegen zijn ingeslagen. Alle reden om de eigen logica, paradoxen en reflexen tijdens de Koude Oorlog eens in kaart te brengen. Recent onderzoek maakt dat goed mogelijk

Деградационные превращения в топологически разупорядоченных твердых телах: 3. Бимолекулярная кинетика затухания радиационных эффектов в ХСП

Решение задачи способствует созданию функциональных материалов электронной техники с наперед заданными и стабильными эксплуатационными свойствами

The Impact of Having a Baby on the Level and Content of Women’s Well-Being

The primary objective of this study was to more fully understand the impact of having a baby on women’s well-being by attending to both the level and the content of well-being. To cover the judgemental and affective aspects of well-being we included global measures of life satisfaction and well-being and affective experience measures derived from the day reconstruction method. In a sample of 19 first-time mothers no differences between pre and postnatal reports of general life satisfaction, depression, anxiety, and experienced positive and negative affect were found, suggesting that the arrival of the newborn baby does not universally impact on women’s level of well-being. Changes in the content of well-being were studied by examining changes in the way women experience specific activities and interactions with various social partners. There appeared to be an upward shift in experienced positive affect during active leisure and a slight decrease in negative affect during time spent with relatives. The results are discussed in light of previously documented changes across the transition to motherhood in negative mood states, time use, women’s evaluation of various aspects of daily life, and relational satisfaction

Long-term changes in parenting and child behavior after the Home-Start family support program

Background: The intervention Home-Start is a wide spread program in a number of countries, among which the Netherlands. In Home-Start, trained volunteers visit families with young children in need of support once or twice a week to help them to deal with problems in family life and parenting. Little is known, however, about the effects of Home-Start. This study describes short-term and long term changes in families that participated in Home-Start. Methods: Three groups of families with young children (at the start mean age 1 1/2 years) were followed over a period of four years. One of the groups of families participated in the Home-Start family support program in the first 6.6 months of this period. The two other groups were (1) a randomly selected community sample and (2) a group of families with elevated parenting stress and a need for support. Data were collected at the beginning of the study, (after median 1.4 months), directly after the intervention (median 6.6 months) and at two follow-up occasions (respectively, median 12.5 and 49.2 months after the first measurement). At the last measurement, data were available for 33, 45 and 34 families respectively. Results: Multilevel analysis showed more positive changes in parental wellbeing, competence and behavior (more consistent behavior and less rejection) during the intervention period in the Home-Start group than in the two other groups. At the three year follow up, the Home-Start group showed, compared to the other groups, more improvements in parenting (more responsiveness), but also diminished child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems (less oppositional defiant behavior, affective problems and anxiety problems). Conclusions: Home-Start seems a promising family support intervention that deserves to be studied more extensively

'Wordt Nederland verdedigd?' De discussie over de hoofdverdedigingslinie van de NAVO in het begin van de jaren vijftig

‘Will the Netherlands be defended?’ The debate about NATO’s main lines of defence at the beginning of the 1950sAt the beginning of the 1950s, the Netherlands would not have been able to defend itself in the event of a Soviet attack. Despite the fact that NATO, under the leadership of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Eisenhower, and later General Ridgway, was in the process of rapidly building up its defences, it was still incapable of conducting a forward defence. The pivotal political and military issue in the short term centred on one question: Which areas in Western Europe could and should be kept and which not? Answers to this question exposed conflicting national interests and points of view, particularly those of the Dutch and the French. As it was taking a considerably long time to build up the Netherlands’ defences, the Dutch government had very few trump cards to add weight to its demands. Indeed, in the summer of 1952, when Parliament asked to be given a precise account of how the Dutch defences were progressing, the government was practically boxed into a corner

De Indonesische kwestie (1945-1949) : De Nederlandse militaire inbreng nader bekeken

De Eerste Politionele Actie was in de gegeven situatie onvermijdelijk, omdat vitale belangen van Nederland acuut in het geding waren. ( ... )De Nederlandse belangen in en bij Indonesie laten zich na 1945 niet enkel definiëren in termen van imperialisme en kolonialisme maar raakten de existentie van het Nederlandse volk, dat zonder de lndische baten geen uitzicht had op economisch herstel, althans tot de aankondiging en realisatie van het Marshallplan

De Indonesische kwestie (1945-1949): De Nederlandse militaire inbreng nader bekeken

De Eerste Politionele Actie was in de gegeven situatie onvermijdelijk, omdat vitale belangen van Nederland acuut in het geding waren. ( ... )De Nederlandse belangen in en bij Indonesie laten zich na 1945 niet enkel definiëren in termen van imperialisme en kolonialisme maar raakten de existentie van het Nederlandse volk, dat zonder de lndische baten geen uitzicht had op economisch herstel, althans tot de aankondiging en realisatie van het Marshallplan