John Laughland (born 6 September 1963) is a British eurosceptic conservative author who writes on international affairs and political philosophy. Career Laughland has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford, studied at Munich University, and has been a lecturer at the University of Paris and at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He also holds the French post-doctoral habilitation degree for his work on sovereignty in international relations. Laughland has contributed articles to The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, Brussels Journal, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Conservative and Antiwar.com. He was until 2008 the European director of the European Foundation, a eurosceptic think-tank chaired by Bill Cash MP. Laughland was guest editor of The Monist in January 2007. From 2008 to 2018, he was Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, which is headed by Natalia Narochnitskaya, a Russian historian and former State Duma deputy. He then worked for Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, a Rassemblement National MEP in the European Parliament until 2019, and thereafter for Derk Jan Eppink, Rob Roos and Rob Rooken, MEPs who were then members of Forum for Democracy. Since 2021 John Laughland has been on the teaching staff of ICES, the Catholic Institute of the Vendée in La Roche-sur-Yon in Western France, as a lecturer in political science, political philosophy and history. Laughland currently works as the director of the international department of Dutch political party Forum voor Democratie under Thierry Baudet. From September 2022 to February 2023 he was Visiting Fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest. Publications and positions In 1997, he published The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, a critique in which he contends that the European Union shares some ideological affinity with Fascism, Nazism and communism, notably its rejection of the nation-state. Sir Edward Heath, the former Prime Minister who signed the UK's Treaty of Accession to the Treaty of Rome in 1972, dismissed the book as "preposterous...a hideous distortion of both past and present." He has written extensively on international criminal justice, condemning the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague on the grounds that the UN Security Council resolution that created it was illegitimate (the Security Council acted ultra vires by creating it) and because he disagrees with its judicial procedures, for example admissibility of hearsay evidence. He criticises it as