Luuk van Middelaar

Luuk Johannes van Middelaar (born 9 May 1973 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch historian and political philosopher. From December 2009 to 2014 Van Middelaar was member of the cabinet of Herman Van Rompuy, the first President of the European Council.[1]

Luuk van Middelaar (2014)

He is best known for his book The Passage to Europe (originally published in 2009; widely translated). Van Middelaar studied history and philosophy at the University of Groningen and the Centre Raymond Aron of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale in Paris. In 1999 his master's thesis (doctoraalscriptie in Dutch) "Politicide" was published and awarded the Prix de Paris (Prize of Paris). He became for a time the political adviser and speechwriter of Frits Bolkestein (2002-2004) and Jozias van Aartsen (2004-2006). In 2009 he got his Ph.D from the University of Amsterdam with a cum laude distinction.

In 2012 he was awarded the European Book Prize[2] and the Prix Louis Martin[3] for The Passage to Europe and Socrates Prize in 2010 for the best philosophy book written in Dutch.[4][5] Since early 2015, he has a weekly political column in NRC Handelsblad, taking up a position he also held previously (2008-2009).[6] In 2015 Van Middelaar was appointed Professor of Foundations and Practice of the European Union and its Institutions at Leiden University in the Netherlands.[7][8] He also holds the "European Values" chair at the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium.[9] Since 2018, he is member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs.[10]

Bibliography
  • Luuk van Middelaar (September 2017) De nieuwe politiek van Europa. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij.[11]
    • translated in French (October 2018) Quand l’Europe improvise: dix ans de crises politiques. Paris: Gallimard, Le Débat. Updated version.[12]
    • translated in English (March 2019) Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage. New York: Agenda Publishing.[13]
  • Luuk van Middelaar & Philippe Van Parijs, (ed.) (October 2015) After the Storm. How to Save Democracy in Europe with, among others, Amartya Sen, Pierre Manent, Jürgen Habermas, Ivan Krastev, David Miller, Pierre Rosanvallon and Larry Siedentop. Tielt: Lannoo.[14]
  • Luuk van Middelaar (July 2009) De passage naar Europa, Geschiedenis van een begin (The passage to Europe. History of a Beginning). Groningen: Historische uitgeverij.[15] Translated in 11 languages.
    • Translated in French (January 2012) Le passage à l'Europe. Histoire d'un commencement. Paris: Gallimard.[16] Revised edition with a new foreword.
    • Translated in English (July 2013) The Passage to Europe. How a Continent Became a Union. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. Revised edition (including a 'Commentary' section) with a new preface.[17]
    • Translated in German (October 2016) Vom Kontinent zur Union - Gegenwart und Geschichte des vereinten Europa. Berlin:Suhrkamp.[18] New forewoonce more rd.
  • Madelon de Keizer & Luuk van Middelaar, (ed.) (2002) Utopie: utopisch denken, doen en bouwen in de twintigste eeuw (Utopia. Utopian Thinking, Acting and Building in the Twentieth Century) (Jaarboek van het Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie). Zutphen: Walburg Pers.
  • Luuk van Middelaar (1999) Politicide: De moord op de politiek in de Franse filosofie (Politicide. The Murder of Politics in French Philosophy; master's thesis, published in the series: Kennis, openbare mening, politiek). Amsterdam: Van Gennep.

Selected articles

Van Middelaar writes for various European journals and newspapers[19] including Le Débat,[20] Le Monde.[21]

Notes
  1. 'Columnist Van Middelaar gaat naar kabinet van Van Rompuy', NRC Handelsblad, 23 December 2009 (news article in Dutch)
  2. "Le passage à l'Europe. Histoire d'un commencement | Prix du livre européen" (in French). Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  3. "Prix Louis Marin". Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (in French). 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  4. "Socratesbeker". Filosofie.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  5. The Passage to Europe, published by Yale University Press.
  6. van Middelaar columbs at the NRC Handelsblad, NRC Handelsblad, in Dutch
  7. "Luuk van Middelaar". Leiden University. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  8. Leiden University, Luuk van Middelaar benoemd tot Hoogleraar Grondslagen en praktijk van de Europese Unie en haar instellingen, July 2015.
  9. "Chair in European Values | UCLouvain". uclouvain.be. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  10. "Luuk van Middelaar — Biography". luukvanmiddelaar.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  11. "Historische Uitgeverij - Luuk van Middelaar, De nieuwe politiek van Europa". www.historischeuitgeverij.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  12. "Quand l'Europe improvise - Le Débat - Gallimard". www.gallimard.fr. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  13. "Detail - AgendaPublishing". www.agendapub.com. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  14. "After the storm - Lannoo". Uitgeverij Lannoo (in Dutch). 2015-11-09. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  15. "Historische Uitgeverij - Luuk van Middelaar, De passage naar Europa". www.historischeuitgeverij.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  16. "Le passage à l'Europe - Bibliothèque des Idées - Gallimard". www.gallimard.fr. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  17. Updated since the previous publication as a translation.
  18. "Vom Kontinent zur Union: Gegenwart und Geschichte des vereinten Europa von Luuk van Middelaar - Suhrkamp Insel Bücher Buchdetail". www.suhrkamp.de. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  19. "Luuk van Middelaar". luukvanmiddelaar.eu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  20. "Le débat » Auteurs » Luuk van Middelaar" (in French). Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  21. "" Il faut que l'Europe achève ce qui est resté incomplet "" (in French). 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
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