Dr. Edwin van de Haar is an independent scholar who specializes in the liberal tradition in international political theory. He has been a (visiting) lecturer at Brown University, Leiden University, and Ateneo de Manila University. Van de Haar is the author of Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory. Hume, Smith, Mises and Hayek (2009), Beloved Yet Unknown: The Political Philosophy of Liberalism (2011, in Dutch), Degrees of Freedom: Liberal Political Philosophy and Ideology (2015), and Human Nature & World Affairs: An Introduction to Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory (2023). He has contributed to several books, such as The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith (2013) and The Liberal International Theory Tradition in Europe (2020), while his articles on liberal ideas and liberal thinkers have appeared among others in Review of International Studies, International Relations, and International Politics. His website is www.edwinvandehaar.com and his email address is edwinvdhaar@​gmail.com.