on the Dutch role in global affairs. He is also a regular columnist at the website DutchNews.nl Work and research interests Giles Scott-Smith's research interests involve an exploration of the 'Transnational Transatlantic' - tracking the governmental and non-governmental linkages that have bound North America and Europe since World War II. This has branched out in many directions over the years, including political communication and linkages between ideas, ideology and power, the 'cultural Cold War' US foreign policy, the Atlantic Community, public diplomacy, the role of private individuals and institutions and their connections with the state in domestic and transatlantic foreign affairs. More precisely, Giles Scott-Smith's work has delved into: The political, economic, and cultural dimensions of transatlantic relations during and after the Cold War; The role of NGOs and 'informal diplomacy' in international affairs; The CIA, The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), the 'cultural Cold War' between the East and the West, and the History of Intelligence. The theory and practice of public diplomacy, particularly exchange programs; Anti-Communist networks and the importance of transnational organizations and elites in global governance. Selected publications Monographs Western Anti-Communism and the Interdoc Network: Cold War Internationale, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Interdoc: Een Geheime Netwerk in de Koude Oorlog, Amsterdam: Boom, 2012 Networks of Empire: The US State Department' s Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France, and Britain 1950–70, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008 The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA and Post-War American Hegemony, London: Routledge, 2002 Edited volumes Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order, Giles Scott-Smith and J Simon Rofe (eds.), Palgrave, 2017 Obama, US Politics, and Transatlantic Relations: Change or Continuity? Giles Scott-Smith (ed.), Peter Lang, 2012 Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West, Peter Romijn, Giles Scott- Smith, and Joes Segal (eds.), Amsterdam: 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.), Paris: Soleb, 2011 Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, Hans Krabbendam, Kees van Minnen, and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.), Amsterdam: Boom / New York: SUNY Press, 2009 European Community, Atlantic Community? The Atlantic Community and Europe, Valerie Aubourg, Gerard Bossuat, and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.), Paris: Soleb, 2008 The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945–1960, G. Scott-Smith & H. Krabbendam (eds), London: Frank Cass, 2003 (also published as Special Issue of