John Laughland

[Michael Pugliese]

As well as serving as the European Director of the European Foundation, the leading London-based 
Eurorealist think tank, Dr Laughland also writes regularly for a wide range of British, European and 
American publications. He is also the author of The Death of Politics: France under Mitterrand and 
The Tainted Source: the Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, in which he argues convincingly 
that an ideology is sweeping Europe that threatens democracy and the rule of law. He shows that the 
'post-national ideology' (that nation- states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a 
modern, interdependent world economy) confuses the constitution of a state with the power of its 
government, and neglects the sense of community essential to the democratic arrangement. A third 
edition of The Tainted Source will soon be published in several European countries. John Laughland is 
also a trustee and an active member of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group 
( http://www.bhhrg.org/press-articles/press1999/massacres_that_never_were.htm ripped apart here
http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue33/walls33.htm )
. He is a former lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and has taught 
at many other universities in Europe and America. 

Contact Dr Laughland at JLAUGHLAND at aol.com.