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Edwin van de Haar

Eneco

Edwin van de Haar is an independent scholar specialized in the intersection between liberalism and international political theory, and the manager of external communications at Eneco. van de Haar's research focuses on the different views on international relations within liberal political thought, and the nuances in the work of key liberal thinkers, such as David Hume, Adam Smith, and Ayn Rand. van de Haar's academic work has appeared in appeared academic journals such as The Review of International Studies, International Relations, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and International Politics. van de Haar also regularly contributes his commentary to non-scholarly sources such as Libertarianism.org, Adam Smith Works, and World Commerce Review. He is the author of the author of four books, most recently Human Nature & World Affairs. An Introduction to Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory (2023). Before, the following books were published: Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory. Hume, Smith, Mises and Hayek (2009), Beloved Yet Unknown. The Political Philosophy of Liberalism (2011, in Dutch), and Degrees of Freedom. Liberal Political Philosophy and Ideology (2015). van de Haar has served as a visiting fellow and lecturer in political theory at John Tomasi’s Political Theory Project at Brown University, a lecturer in international relations and political economy at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University, and a lecturer in international relations at the European Studies Program at Ateneo de Manila University. van de Haar has additionally worked as head of communications & executive secretary for CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, and a manager of corporate communications for FMO, a Dutch development bank. van de Haar earned his MA in Political Science from Leiden University, his MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his PhD in International Political Theory from Maastricht University.