John Laughland

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John Laughland

John C. Laughland (born September 6, 1963 ) is a British philosopher , journalist and author .

Life

Laughland studied German , philosophy and Russian studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Oxford . At Oxford he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. He completed his habilitation in 2003 at the University of Marne-La-Vallée near Paris. He then taught philosophy and political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris , at the University of Paris III and at the Libera Università degli Studi Per l'Innovazione e le Organizzazioni in Rome. He is a research member at the University of Paris IV and currently teaches (as of 2013) at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . Since 2008 Laughland has been Director of Studies at the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris and European Director of the European Foundation in London.

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Publications and Political Positions

In 1997 he published The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea , a critical account of the European Union, in which he tries to demonstrate the relationship between the European idea and Fascist, National Socialist and Communist ideas, with the rejection of the nation state being his main point of view. According to Laughland, the basic principles of political freedom are "responsible governance (democracy), the rule of law and stable money." Above all, it is the undermining of the nation-state, whereby the EU undermines political freedom. Edward Heath , the former Prime Minister of Great Britain who signed the Paris Treaty in 1972, dismissed the book as an absurd and hideous twist of the past and the present.

He dealt with the International Court of Justice in The Hague in many articles and particularly condemned the tribunal on the war crimes of the former Yugoslavia. He considered the resolution of the UN Security Council, which had set up the tribunal, illegitimate because the Security Council acted ultra vires . He rejects the procedural rules, as hearing testimony is also permitted. He called the court a political tribunal and saw a double standard in the fact that investigations into possible war crimes by NATO in Yugoslavia were denied. He criticized the Kosovo war in 1999 as well as the Iraq wars before.

Laughland rejected Western support for the anti-Serb opposition to Slobodan Milosevic and condemned the 2003 revolution in Georgia as a coup.

Laughland took the position during the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine that Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was in a coalition with neo-Nazis. His attempts to take over the presidency, which ultimately led to success, were supported on the street by "drugged skinheads from Lvov". Reports of mass graves in Iraq have been exaggerated for political purposes. Behind the concern about the massacre in Sudan in 2004 is the interest in oil in the region.

Together with Natalija Narotschnizkaja, John Laughland is the head of the Paris branch of the Russian Institute for Democracy and Cooperation and is a regular co-organizer and speaker of the “Sovereignty Conferences” of the Querfront magazine Compact around Jürgen Elsässer . At the first sovereignty conference on November 24, 2012 in the Henry Ford Building of the Free University of Berlin , his lecture was canceled due to the long delay and later made up separately.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Tainted Source: Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea . Time Warner, London 1998, ISBN 0-7515-2324-0 .
  • Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice . Pluto Press, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7453-2635-1 .
  • Schelling Versus Hegel: From German Idealism to Christian Metaphysics . Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-6118-4 .
  • ed. with Michel Korinman: Shia Power: Next Target Iran? Vallentine Mitchell Academic, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-85303-751-4 .
  • ed. with Michel Korinman: The Long March to the West: Twenty-First Century Migration in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Area . Vallentine Mitchell Academic, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-85303-780-4 .
  • ed. with Michel Korinman: Russia: A New Cold War? Vallentine Mitchell Academic, London 2007, ISBN

978-0-85303-805-4.

  • History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein . Peter Lang, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-906165-00-0 .
  • ed. with Michel Korinman: Israel on Israel . Vallentine Mitchell Academic, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-85303-657-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Institute of Democracy and Cooperation , accessed November 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ https://ef-magazin.de/autor/john-laughland
  3. ↑ The Tainted Source, Kindle Edition, pos. 5039 (chapter VII). "Accountable government (democracy), the rule of law, and sound money."
  4. ↑ cited in John Papworth "Nazi Roots or the Europlot", ( Memento of the original of April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Ecologist , Vol.28, No6, November – December 1998, p.363 "Preposterous ... a hideous distortion of both past and present." @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / exacteditions.theecologist.org
  5. ^ John Laughland, "The revolution televised," The Guardian , Nov. 27, 2004
  6. ↑ John Laughland "Western aggression",  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Spectator , November 6, 2004@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.spectator.co.uk  
  7. ↑ John Laughland, "Has Blair Sexed Up Saddam's Atrocities, Too?" antiwar.com, August 6, 2003
  8. ^ John Laughland, "The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war," The Guardian , August 2, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Laughland, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laughland, John C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1963