Alexander Mattelaer
Biography
Dr Alexander Mattelaer is a Senior Research Fellow at Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations - and a Professor in International Security at the VUB Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS). He is currently seconded to the Belgian Ministry of Defence, where he serves as Defence Policy Director.* Earlier he completed visiting stays at Harvard University, the College of Europe, and the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University in Washington DC. He also served as chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence, the hub of Belgian defence R&T policy and senior officer education.
(*The views expressed in his writings are solely his own, and do not constitute, nor should be construed as, an endorsement by the Belgian Ministry of Defence.)
Publications
- Outcome Pending Negotiations: The 2026 NPT Review Conference as a Narrative Battleground External publications
- Making Russia Fear Escalation Again External publications
- Transatlantic Uncertainty calls for Greater National Responsibility Commentaries
- China’s Nuclear Shadow Reaches Europe External publications
- Re-Empowering Belgian Foreign Policy Security Policy Briefs
- The Long Shadow? China’s Military Rise in the Indo-Pacific and its Global Implications External publications
- A Nuclear Alliance External publications
- What Future European Defence and Technological Industrial Basis (EDTIB) Do We Want/Need? The Belgian case External publications
- Bleak Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament Security Policy Briefs
- Upgrading the Belgian Contribution to NATO’s Collective Defence Security Policy Briefs
- What news from the Ukrainian front? A net assessment Commentaries
- Why Belgium Needs a Cyber Command Security Policy Briefs
- Keeping the OSCE Alive Security Policy Briefs
- Is Europe Serious About Defense? External publications
- Free rider no more? Belgium and the NATO Madrid Summit Commentaries
- Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence: A European Perspective External publications
- The Future of the Arctic Region: What is at Stake for Belgium? European Policy Briefs
- Time for Europe to stand up to Putin Commentaries
- Euro-Atlantic Concerns regarding a US “Sole Purpose” Policy External publications
- Nuclear Sharing and NATO as a ‘Nuclear Alliance’ External publications