Dr Antonio Salvador Alcazar III is currently affiliated as a Visiting Fellow with the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Thanks to a First Book Fellowship awarded by the Independent Social Research Foundation, he is rewriting his doctoral dissertation into a monograph on the European Union as a colonial/modern trade power.

A political ethnographer by training, Antonio holds a PhD in politics from Central European University (2024). Previously, he served as a Global Teaching Fellow funded by the Open Society University Network at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and contributed to distance teaching and learning at Parami University in Myanmar. He also stayed as a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals in Catalunya from 2021 to 2025.

In a past life outside academia, Antonio 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.

He is a co-founder of South/South Movement.

Research

• Decolonial thought and praxis
• EU trade policy
• Global politics
• Interpretive methodologies
• Politics of knowledge

Grounded in epistemologies from the global souths, Antonio's research interrogates the EU’s entanglements as a global (trade) power. More broadly, he is 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.

For more details about Antonio's work, please visit his ISRF profile page or personal website.