Luuk van Middelaar

Senior Research Associate
Associates are experts in their own field and contractually affiliated with Clingendael. Although associates are not employees of the Clingendael Institute, they comply with all policies that Clingendael staff do.

Expertise

  • Europe in the World
  • Europe and the EU
  • COVID-19
  • China

Regions

  • Europe
  • The Netherlands

Luuk van Middelaar (1973) is a political theorist and historian. He is a professor of EU law at Leiden University and a political commentator for NRC Handelsblad and De Standaard.

The author of the prizewinning The Passage to Europe, he was the chief speechwriter and a close advisor to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (2010-2014). Van Middelaar published his first book, Politicide, in 1999. His most recent book is Alarums & Excursions:Improvising Politics on the European Stage, also out in French and Dutch. Since 2018, he is member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs  and the Chair of its Commission on European Integration (CEI).

See also https://luukvanmiddelaar.eu/bio 

Follow @LuukvMiddelaar on Twitter.

My work

8

Publications

COVID-19

China and the geopolitics of the coronavirus

26 February 2020 - 15:32
Europe and the EU

The European Union after the Brexit. Who are our new partners?

13 September 2018 - 10:24

Events