
Frank Gerits
Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
Research fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa
External fellow, the Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University
International History and the diplomatic history of 'The Rest'



Peer Reviewed Articles
2019
Serra Gerardo, Gerits Frank, ‘The Politics of Socialist Education in Ghana: The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, 1961-6’, Journal of African History, 60, no. 3 (2019), 407-428.
‘The Postcolonial Cultural Transaction: Rethinking the Guinea crisis within the French cultural strategy for Africa, 1945-1961’, Cold War History, 19, no. 3 (2019), 1743-7962.
2017
‘Hungry Minds: the Eisenhower Administration and Cultural Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa (1953-1961)’, in Diplomatic History, (February 2017), online.
2016
‘Bandung as the call for a better development project: American, British, French and Gold Coast perceptions of the Afro-Asian Conference (1955)’, in Cold War History, 16, no. 3 (August, 2016), 1-18.
Gerits, Frank, Scott-Smith, Giles, Christiaens, Kim, Goddeeris, Idesbald, ‘The Benelux and the Cold War: Re-interpreting West-West Relations’, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies (The Cold War in the Benelux (1945-1991): Current Trends, New Perspectives), 40, no. 1 (March 2016),1-9.
‘”Défendre l’oeuvre que nous réalisons en Afrique”: Belgian Public Diplomacy and the Global Cold War (1945-1966)’, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies (The Cold War in the Benelux (1945-1991): Current Trends, New Perspectives), 40, no. 1 (March 2016), 68-80.
2015
Gerits, Frank, Scott-Smith, Giles, Christiaens, Kim, Goddeeris, Idesbald, ‘The Low Countries and Eastern Europe during the Cold War: Introduction’, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies (The Cold War in the Benelux (1945-1991): Current Trends, New Perspectives), 39, no. 3 (November 2015), 221-231.
‘When the Bull Elephants Fight’: Nkrumah, the Non-Aligned Movement and Pan-Africanism as an Interventionist Ideology (1957-1966), in International History Review, 37, no. 5 (October 2015), 951-969.
2013
‘An International Approach to the Cultural Cold War : French Public Diplomacy towards Africa (1945-1965)’, in Zeitenblicke (Special Issue: ‘Current Historiographical Research at the European University Institute’), 12, no. 1 (June 2013), URL: http://www.zeitenblicke.de/2013/1/Gerits/index_html, URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-9-36129.
‘International History at the EUI: An Interview with Federico Romero by Frank Gerits’, in Zeitenblicke (Special Issue: ‘Current Historiographical Research at the European University Institute’), 12, no. 1 (June 2013), URL: http://www.zeitenblicke.de/2013/1/Romero/index_html, URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-9-36316.
2012
‘Rethinking the Political Economy of Americanization: The Beginning of a Historical Critique’, in The Twentieth Century/Dvacátéstoleté (Charles University Prague/Univerzity Karlovy V Praze), 2, no. 1 (January 2012), 23-39.
‘Taking Off the Soft Power Lens: The United States Information Service in Cold War Belgium (1950-1958)’, in The Journal of Belgian History, 42, no. 4 (December 2012), 10-49.

Other Scholarly Contributions
2018
‘Pan-African Federation’, Encyclopedia of the British Empire, edited by Mark Doyle Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018 (pre-order available).
Published Collection of Documents

2020
Belgium and Non-Alignment, diplomatieke documenten/documents diplomatiques/ diplomatic documents, the Royal Historical Commission, Brussels, forthcoming 2020.
Contributions to Edited Volumes
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)’, eds. Laurien Crump and Susanna Erlandsson, Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe: the Influence of Smaller Powers, Abingdon: Routledge, 2019, 130-146. (published on 19 December 2019)
‘Chapter 12 The reluctant soft power: 1989 and the European Community’s hesitant turn towards normative power in Africa’, eds. Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener, 1989 and the West, Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. (published on 15 July 2019).
Edited Volumes
2016
Scott-Smith Giles, Goddeeris Idesbald, Christiaens Kim, Gerits Frank eds., The Cold War in the Benelux (1945-1991): Current Trends, New Perspectives, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 40, no. 1 (March 2016).
2015
Scott-Smith Giles, Goddeeris Idesbald, Christiaens Kim, Gerits Frank eds., The Cold War in the Benelux (1945-1991): Current Trends, New Perspectives, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 39, no. 3 (November 2015).
Book Reviews
2019
Review of ‘Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Getachew, Adom’ in History: The Journal of the Historical Society, forthcoming, in print 2019.
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