Welcome to our site. The Holland Bureau is a non-profit, non-ideological, at times non-sensical venture into the realms of commentary on international affairs. The central theme is the Netherlands, that small nation in the north-west of Europe which maintains a high presence in all things global: international economics, financial regulation, international law, managing climate change, oil and gas exploration, military operations, intelligence, development strategy, drug policies, the UN, the EU, NATO, you name it, the Dutch are there, and they are involved. With this as our starting point, we hope to broaden our scope over time to bring in other views from across Europe on the state of transatlantic relations and the emerging world order.

The Bureau is the initiative of Giles Scott-Smith and Jesse Coleman. Scott-Smith is an academic based in Leiden and Middelburg. He researches and teaches in the fields of Cold War History, Intelligence History, Public Diplomacy, Transatlantic Relations, and International Relations. Coleman is a graduate of Roosevelt Academy, is based in Amsterdam, and is active in the development/environmental sectors.