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I am currently writing a book on the coloniality of the European Union’s preferential trade relations with the global souths, thanks to a First Book Fellowship awarded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. For this book project, I will be affiliated as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Barcelona.

I am a political scientist by training, with a PhD from Central European University. Grounded in epistemologies from the global souths, my work interrogates the EU’s entanglements as a global (trade) power. More broadly, I am interested in the politics of knowledge, decolonial thought and praxis, and interpretive methodologies, and how these forces trouble colonial/modern discourses and practices around norms, development, and hierarchies in world politics. I have published in, among others, Journal of Contemporary European Research and Politics and Governance.

I have teaching experience at universities in Latin America, Central Europe, and Southeast Asia. Most recently, I served as a Global Teaching Fellow funded by the Open Society University Network at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I also stayed as a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals in Catalunya from 2021 to 2025.

In a past life, I spent six years doing policy advocacy at the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines and working as EU outreach consultant for a European Commission-funded project on the internationalisation of small and medium enterprises.

Outside the ivory tower, I co-organise for South/South Movement and dabble in film photography.

I am open to research, editorial and project-based commissions. See some of my work here.

Caveat: I write as a Buhi’nən from the Bikol region in what has been colonially constructed as ‘the Philippines’.

Email: antonio@antonioalcazar.eu

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