Matthew Broad is an Assistant Professor (UD1) in History and International Studies at the Institute for History, Leiden University. He is a scholar of international relations from a historical perspective, with particular interest in post-1945 European integration, British foreign policy, Anglo-Nordic relations, and the Cold War. Prior to joining Leiden, he was an EU-funded Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Turku, Finland, and a Jean Monnet Scholar at the European Studies Centre, University of Pittsburgh, and previously held lectureships at the universities of Reading and Gloucestershire. His publications include Harold Wilson, Denmark and the Making of Labour European Policy, 1958–72(2017), European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in East and West Europe Since 1945 (2020, edited with Suvi Kansikas),Britain, the Division of Western Europe and the Creation of EFTA, 1955–63 (2022, with Richard T. Griffiths) and The Unfinished History of European Integration (2024, with Koen van Zon, Aleksandra Komornicka, Paul Reef, Alessandra Schimmel and Jorrit Steehouder). Read more

Ruud has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Dickinson College, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has been a Senior Lecturer in the History of Globalization and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam since 2008. He is the Senior Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Cold War (Routledge, 2008), and General Editor of a digital edition, under contract with Routledge. He is co-organizer of the Cold War Research Network in the Netherlands, and of the Working Group on History and International Politics (WHIP), a collaboration between academics and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read more

Managing Director

Paschalis is Assistant Professor in History of International Relations at Utrecht University. He has been Visiting Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Athens (NIA), Research Fellow at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) Romania, Visiting Researcher at New York University (NYU) and he has previously taught at the University of Florence, Italy. He is the author of America and Romania in the Cold War: A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80 (A Romanian edition is published by Editura Litera) and Section Editor at Routledge Resources Online – The Cold War. Read more

Laurien Crump is one of the founders of the Cold War Research Network. She is a researcher in foreign and defence policy in the late Cold War for the Centre for Parliamentary History at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She has also worked for twelve years as Associate Professor in Contemporary European History at Utrecht University, where she founded the Global Cold War Group and chaired various sections and clusters. She has conducted multi-archival research in many countries and has been a visiting scholar in Oxford, Cambridge, Uppsala and Florence.
She has published widely on multilateral relations in the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain and worked on a VENI research project on pan-European diplomacy in the 1980s. Her monograph The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered: International Relations in Eastern Europe, 1955-69 (Routledge, 2015) was awarded the international George Blazyca Prize.
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Honorary coordinator of the Cold War Research Network

Giles holds the Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History at the University of Leiden, and is one of the directors of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg. He is one of the coordinators of the New Diplomatic History network and co-editor of the network’s journal, Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society (Brill). He has published widely on Cold War history, with a special interest in non-state actors, ideology, and the ‘transnational transatlantic’. Read more