Tom Sauer

Tom Sauer is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp (Belgium).

Specializes in international security and, in particular, nuclear weapons control, proliferation and disarmament.

His latest book, co-edited with Yoichiro Sato and Elena Atanasova-Kornelis, is called “Alliances in Asia and Europe: Development of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Context and Interregional Groupings” (Routledge, 2023).

Tom Sauer studied politics and international politics at FUNDP-Namur (Belgium), the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), the University of Hull (UK) and the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies. Paul H. Nitze (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University (USA). He received his PhD in Social Sciences (Political Science) from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).

Sauer received a NATO Individual Fellowship (1994–1995), a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship (1997–1998), and a Research Foundation-Flanders Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002–2008). He is a former Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) Fellow at the John F. School of Government. Kennedy University at Harvard University (USA) and an active participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

In 2009, he received the Ambassador of Peace Award from Pax Christi Flanders and the 2019 Global Service Award for Alumni from Rotary International.