Een relatie van 250 jaar: 'An old alliance in a new world', Lezing (in het Engels) door Ian Kenny (directeur John Adams Institute) ^{in het Engels) door Ian Kenny (directeur John Adams Institute}

The Netherlands and the United States share the longest unbroken diplomatic relationship in American history. Two and a half centuries. Through wars, revolutions, and continents remade. But longevity, it turns out, is not the same as harmony — and the history between these two nations is more surprising, more contested, and more instructive than the commemorative version tends to suggest. Ian Kenny takes three moments as his guide. What these moments share is not a simple story of alliance or antagonism, but something more interesting: a relationship that has had to be renegotiated, again and again, by people navigating genuine disagreement. The friendship in the title was never guaranteed. It was worked for. Which raises the question the lecture ends with, and leaves open: what is being worked for now? Where does the relationship stand in 2026; and what, if anything, can be taken for granted?