Publicaties
2025
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
2024
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. (2024). Response to H-Diplo Roundtable Review of ‘Frank Gerits. The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order (1945–1966). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. H-Diplo Roundtable review. [Portal]
Gerits, F. (2024). H-Diplo Roundtable Book Review of ‘Gasbarri, Flavia. US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa: A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988-1994,London: Routledge, 2020. H-Diplo Roundtable review, 8-10. [Portal]
2023
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. (2023). Introduction to H-Diplo/RJISSF Roundtable Review of Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering. African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers and Rebel Forces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. H-Diplo Roundtable review. [Repository]
Gerits, F. (2023). The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966. Cornell University Press.
2022
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. (2022). Introduction to H-Diplo Roundtable Review of “Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa's Cold War” by Marco Wyss. H-Diplo Roundtable review, XXIII(36). https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/10183633/h-diplo-roundtable-xxiii-36-wyss%C2%A0-postcolonial-security-britain [Portal]
Gerits, F. (2022). H-Diplo Book Review of “African Political thought: An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom” by Stephan Chan. Web publication/site, H-Diplo. [Portal]
Gerits, F. (2022). Review of ‘Colonial Impotence. Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940)’ by Benoît Henriet. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 135(4), 463-464. [DOI] [Repository]
Gerits, F. (2022). Anticolonial Capitalism: How Ghana came to embrace Market-Led Development Theory (the 1970s-1990s). Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 47(1), 4-26. [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. (2021). H-Diplo Roundtable Review of “Cold Wars: Asia, the Midle East, Europe”. H-Diplo Roundtable review, XXIII(10). [Portal]
Gerits, F. (2021). H-Diplo Book Review of “The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria” by Owen White. H-Diplo. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/7068450/h-diplo-review-essay-298-white%C2%A0-blood-colony-wine-and-rise-and [Portal]
Gerits, F. (2021). Review of The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria” by Owen White. Web publication/site, H-Diplo. https://issforum.org/essays/PDF/E298.pdf
Gerits, F. (2021). H-Diplo Roundtable Review of “Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe” by Lorenz M. Lüthi, H-Diplo Roundtable review.
Gerits, F. P. L., & Grilli, M. (Ed.) (2021). Visions of African Unity: New Perspectives on the History of Pan-Africanism and African Unification Projects. Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]
Vakpublicaties
Gerits, F. (2021). Open strategisch autonomie t.a.v. Afrika en Latijns-Amerika: Wetenschappelijke factsheet voor de Tweede Kamer van Nederland. KNAW.
Populariserende publicaties
de Graaf, B. A., Gerits, F., & Harinck, C. (2021). De tijd van beschaving brengen is voorbij (Opinie). NRC Handelsblad. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/09/08/de-tijd-van-beschaving-brengen-is-voorbij-a4057631
2020
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
2019
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. (2019). Introduction to ‘Alanna O’Malley, ‘The Diplomacy of Decolonisation: American, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-1964’, Manchester University Press, 2018’. H-Diplo. [Portal]
Gerits, F. P. L. (2019). Americanising the Belgian Civilizing Mission: The Belgian Information Center in New York and the Public Diplomacy of Modernisation Projects in the Congo (1945-1961). In L. Crump, & S. Erlandsson (Eds.), Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe: the Influence of Smaller Powers (pp. 130-146). Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Repository]
Gerits, F. P. L. (2019). The Postcolonial Cultural Transaction: Rethinking the Guinea crisis within the French cultural strategy for Africa, 1958-60. Cold War History, 19(4), 493-509. [DOI] [Repository]
Serra, G., & Gerits, F. P. L. (2019). The Politics of Socialist Education in Ghana: The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, 1961-1966. Journal of African History, 60(3), 407-428. [DOI] [Repository]
Gerits, F. P. L. (2019). The Reluctant Soft Power: 1989 and the European Community’s hesitant turn toward soft power in Africa (1970-1992). In E. Braat, & P. Corduwener (Eds.), 1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War (pp. 207-223). Routledge.
2018
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. P. L. (2018). H-Diplo Review of ‘“Playing Cold War politics”: the cold war in Anglo-Kenyan relations in the 1960s by Poppy Cullen’. H-Diplo Article Review, Article 785. http://tiny.cc/AR785 [Repository]
Gerits, F. P. L. (2018). Pan-African Federation. In M. Doyle (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the British Empire (Empires of the world). ABC-Clio.
Populariserende publicaties
Gillett, R. A., & Gerits, F. P. L. (2018). "What's Black Panther got to do with it?". Web publication/site
2017
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. P. L. (2017). Book review: 'Jason Parker, Hearts, Minds, Voices US Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World, Oxford University Press, 2017’. H-Diplo Roundtable review, 29(10), 8-11. [Repository]
Gerits, F. P. L. (2017). Review of ‘Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War’ by Nancy Mitchell. History, 102(351), 545-547. [DOI] [Repository]
Gerits, F. P. L. (2017). Review of ‘the South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire’ by Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 24(2), 333-334. [DOI] [Repository]
Gerits, F. P. L. (2017). Hungry Minds: the Eisenhower Administration and Cultural Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa (1953-1961). Diplomatic History, 41(3), 594-619. [DOI] [Repository]
2016
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. P. L. (2016). Review of ‘Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World’ by Gary Wilder. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 23(1-2), 315-316.
Gerits, F. P. L. (2016). ”Défendre l’oeuvre que nous réalisons en Afrique”: Belgian Public Diplomacy and the Global Cold War (1945-1966). Dutch Crossing, 68.
Gerits, F. P. L., Goddeeris, I., Christiaens, K., & Scott-Smith, G. (2016). The Benelux and the Cold War: Re-interpreting West-West Relations. Dutch Crossing, 40(1), 1.
Gerits, F. P. L. (2016). Bandung as the call for a better development project: American, British, French and Gold Coast perceptions of the Afro-Asian Conference (1955). Cold War History, 16(3), 255-272. http://www.tandfonline.com.proxy.library.uu.nl/doi/full/10.1080/14682745.2016.1189412
2015
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. P. L. (2015). ‘When the Bull Elephants Fight’: Nkrumah, the Non-Aligned Movement and Pan-Africanism as an Interventionist Ideology (1957-1966). The International History Review, 37(5), 951-969. [DOI]
Gerits, F. P. L., Christiaens, K., Goddeeris, I., & Scott-Smith, G. (2015). The Low Countries and Eastern Europe during the Cold War: Introduction. Dutch Crossing, 39(3), 221-231.
2014
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. (2014). The Ideological Scramble For Africa: The US, Ghanaian, French and British Competition for Africa’s Future, 1953-1963. [Doctoral thesis 3 (Research UU / Graduation NOT UU), European University Institute].
Gerits, F. P. L. (2014). Review of ‘Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War’ by Robert Gellately. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 21(5), 923-924.
Overige resultaten
Gerits, F. P. L. (2014, Nov 13). Review of ‘Two Roads to Belgrade: the United States, Great Britain, and the First Nonaligned Conference by Robert Rakove’. [Repository]
2013
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. P. L. (2013). Review of ‘Interdoc. Een geheim netwerk in de Koude Oorlog’ by Giles Scott-Smith. BMGN - The Low Countries Historical Review, 128(3).
Gerits, F. P. L. (2013). Review of ‘The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century’ by Ellwood David. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 923-924.
Gerits, F. P. L. (2013). Review of ‘Civil War and Reconstruction in Washington: Race and Radicalism’ by Robert Harrison. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 20(2), 324-326.
Gerits, F. P. L. (2013). International History at the EUI: An Interview with Federico Romero by Frank Gerits. Zeitenblicke, 12(1), Article urn:nbn:de:0009-9-36316.
Gerits, F. P. L. (2013). An International Approach to the Cultural Cold War : French Public Diplomacy towards Africa (1945-1965). Zeitenblicke, 12(1), Article urn:nbn:de:0009-9-36129.
2012
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Gerits, F. P. L. (2012). Taking Off the Soft Power Lens: The United States Information Service in Cold War Belgium (1950-1958). The Journal of Belgian History, 42(4), 10-49.
Gerits, F. P. L. (2012). Rethinking the Political Economy of Americanization: The Beginning of a Historical Critique. The Twentieth Century/Dvacátéstoleté, 2(1), 23-39.
A complete list of my publications can be found on:
https://uu.academia.edu/FrankGerits
www.frankgerits.com