Giles Scott Smith is Dean of Leiden University College The Hague.

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Giles Scott-Smith (1968) received his BA in European and Asian Studies from the University of Ulster in 1988, and an MA in International Relations at Sussex University in 1993. He then moved to Lancaster University for a Ph.D in International Relations, graduating in 1998. He joined the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands, in January 2002 as a post-doctoral researcher, and was given a permanent position as senior researcher in January 2005. During 2008-2012 he was also an Associate Professor at University College Roosevelt (Honours College, Utrecht University) in Middelburg, running the International Relations track. From 2009-2018 he held the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation since WWII at Leiden University. In January 2017 he was appointed by Leiden University to become the academic director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands. 
In 2017 he became founding editor of the journal Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society together with Ken Weisbrode. From 2018-2022 he held the Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History at Leiden University. In July 2022 he was appointed Dean at Leiden University College The Hague.

Research interests

Scott-Smith’s research interests involve a broad exploration of the multiple forms of diplomacy in international history. Special attention has been given to investigating the ‘Transnational Transatlantic’ – tracking and explaining the governmental and non-governmental linkages that have bound North America and Europe since WW II. This covers many sub-fields, which can broadly be termed New Diplomatic History: connections between ideas, ideology and power; the ‘cultural Cold War’; US foreign policy; the Atlantic Community; public diplomacy; intelligence history; state-private networks and the role of private individuals and institutions in transatlantic relations.

Professional affiliations

• Founding co-editor, Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society (2018- ) 
• Chair, Transatlantic Studies Association (2013-2016)
• Editorial Board, Journal of Contemporary History (2015- )
• Editorial Board, New Global Studies (2015- )
• Series Editor, Studies in Diplomacy, Manchester University Press

Awards

• Marshall-Monnet Scholar in Residence, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010) 
• Senior Qualification for Research (SKO), Utrecht University (2012) 
• Senior Qualification for Teaching (SKO), Utrecht University (2012)

Selected publications

Books 

Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad (Manchester University Press, 2016)

Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War: Agents, Activites, and Networks, Luc van Dongen, Stephanie Roulin, and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) 

Western Anti-Communism and the Interdoc Network: Cold War Internationale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) 

Interdoc: Een Geheim Netwerk in de Koude Oorlog (Boom, 2012) 

Obama, US Politics, and Transatlantic Relations: Change or Continuity? (Peter Lang, 2012) 

Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West (Amsterdam University Press, 2012) 

Atlantic, Euratlantic, or Europe-America? The Atlantic Community and the European Idea from Kennedy to Nixon, Valerie Aubourg and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.) (Soleb, 2011) 

Networks of Empire: The US State Department’s Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France, and Britain 1950-70 (Peter Lang, 2008) 

European Community, Atlantic Community? The Atlantic Community and Europe, Valerie Aubourg, Gerard Bossuat and Giles Scott-Smith (eds) (Soleb, 2008) 

The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945 — 1960, G. Scott-Smith & H. Krabbendam (eds) (Frank Cass, 2003) 

The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA and Post-War American Hegemony (Routledge, 2002)

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