Oral history interview with Johan Kaufmann, 1999.

Biographical Note

Economic Counselor

Scope and Contents

Born 1918 in the Netherlands; Career: economic counselor, Netherlands representative to the UN, representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Dutch Ambassador to Japan. Themes: Personal experience of the Holocaust, intellectual heritage of the Great Depression, impact of the Marshall Plan, General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), effects of the Cold War on American and Dutch bilateral relations, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), work on the Institute for Social Development, role of Non-Governmental Organizations in negotiation, American position in the UN, Israeli-Egyptian dynamics, evolution of the UN over time, role of global conferences in intellectual development, introduction of ideas into the UN

Subjects

• Ambassadors--Netherlands--Interviews.
• Diplomacy.
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• International agencies.
• Interviews.
• Kaufmann, Johan--Interviews.
• Netherlands--Relations--United States.
• Non-governmental organizations.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• United Nations--History.
• United Nations--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
• United States--Relations--Netherlands.
• Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• World politics--1933-1945.
• World politics--1945-1989.

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Copyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2000