Luk SANDERS
Research associate of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies
Biography
Artillery Senior Captain (OF-3) Luk Sanders currently works as the deputy director at the department High Studies of Defence and as a research associate at the RHID’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies. Previously, he served in the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment (Helchteren) and was active in the Belgian Artillery School (Brasschaat), the Royal Military Academy (Brussels) and the Belgian Defence Social Service (Neder-Over-Heembeek).
He studied “Social and Military Sciences” at the RMA (BA, MA, & PhD), “Applied Ethics” (option “Social & Political Questions”) at the KU Leuven (MA) and Philosophy (BA & PhD) at the KU Leuven and the UA.
He taught “Ethics and Citizenship” at the RMA (2001-2004) and Philosophy at the Evangelical Theological Faculty (Leuven). He is a former columnist of De Standaard (2007-2010) and writes occasionally for other periodicals and journals too.
Expertise
Political Philosophy
MENA region
American History
Relation Religion/Politics
Power Politics
Democracy
Publications
SANDERS, Luk, De politieke rol van de Turkse strijdkrachten doorheen de geschiedenis, Security and Strategy 143, March 2020
SANDERS, Luk et al., Europa, Israël en de Palestijnen: Een mislukte driehoeksverhouding, MO*‑magazine, Vol. 131, maart 2019 (pp. 52-7).
SANDERS, Luk, Saoedi-Arabië en Iran. Historiek van een koude oorlog, Security and Strategy 137, Februari 2019
SANDERS, Luk, De Europese betrokkenheid in de evolutie van het Israëlisch-Palestijns conflict, Security and Strategy 134, Februari 2018
SANDERS, Luk, Turkey’s stance: Status quæstionis of an “Islamic ally” within NATO, e‑Note 24, 27 November 2017
SANDERS, Luk, De plaats van religie in het politieke denken van Alexis de Tocqueville, Antwerpen, Antwerp University Press, 2017.
SANDERS, Luk, De gevolgen van de Arabische Lente. Prognoses op lange termijn, Security and Strategy 118, August 2014
SANDERS, Luk, Israel and Hamas: Three Questions on The Current Conflict, e‑Note 14, 1st September 2014
SANDERS, Luk, Egypt and the aftershocks of the Arab Spring Democratisation: to be or not to be?, e‑Note 10, 20 September 2013
SANDERS, Luk, “Religie en politiek”, in KINNEGING, Andreas (ed.), Tocqueville, profeet van de moderne democratie, Rotterdam, Lemniscaat, 2013, pp. 143-68.
SANDERS, Luk, “The strange belief of Alexis de Tocqueville”, in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Routledge) 74(2013)1, pp. 33-53.
SANDERS, Luk, US Presidential Election. Towards a Plutocratic Democracy?, e‑Note 8, 2012
SANDERS, Luk, “Traditional Parties in Crisis. Comparing Two Forms of Belgian Socialism”, in Belgian Society and Politics 2012: The Crisis Comes in Many Guises, Sixth International Yearbook, The Foundation Gerrit Kreveld, Belgian Study Centre for Social Democracy, pp. 164-73.
SANDERS, Luk, “Tocquevilles vivisectie van de democratie”, in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 74(2012)4, pp. 533-60.
SANDERS, Luk & DEVOS, Carl (ed.), Politieke Ideologieën in Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Standaard-Uitgeverij, 2008.
SANDERS, Luk (ed.), Politiek voorbij de transcendentie?, Kapellen/Kampen, Pelckmans/Klement, 2005.
SANDERS, Luk, “Des principes en conflit. Quelques zones de tension de la démocratie”, in FLAHAUT, André & BROQUET, Hervé (ed.), Citoyenneté. Pour devenir citoyen du monde (2003), pp. 51-65.
SANDERS, Luk (ed.), Heeft de burger nog zin? Essays in burgerzin, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn, Garant/Maklu, 2003.
SANDERS, Luk, “Het statuut van de militaire peacekeepers”, in Transaktie: Tijdschrift over de Wetenschap van Oorlog en Vrede, 28(1999)1, p. 47-70.