# Laurelin Beatrijs Middelkoop Graduate Associate ![Middelkoop](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/globalpoliticalthought/files/l_middelkoop_portrait.jpg?itok=I2NnpT8V) email laptop\_windows [Middelkoop's profile at EUI](https://www.eui.eu/people?id=laurelin-middelkoop) Laurelin Middelkoop is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where she co-convenes the Intellectual History Working Group. Her research focuses on ideas of international confederation in early modern European political thought – ranging from global visions of world governance to European unions, with a specific focus on the French philosopher the Abbé de Saint-Pierre. She obtained her undergraduate degree in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, after which she completed a MA degree in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History at UCL/Queen Mary University of London, where she focused particularly on the history of natural law, and ideas of empire in art, respectively. - ## People categories [Associate](/people-categories/graduate-associates)