Sam is an Associate Professor of Political Science (MCF in France). He teaches European defence policy at UCLouvain Saint-Louis and conducts research on strategic autonomy and Europe’s rearmament.
A specialist in military-industrial policies and European Union governance, his work examines the links between security, sovereignty and the economy in the context of the war in Ukraine.
He is the author of some sixty scientific publications and the co-editor of the scientific journal Politique européenne. Sam has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, King's College London and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
He is a regular speaker at public institutions (Assemblée nationale, Sénat, IHEDN, European Parliament) and in the media (France Culture, France Inter, Le Grand Continent, Le Monde, RFI, The Conversation).
He has taught political science in Canada (Université de Montréal), Germany (Freie Universitat Berlin) and France (École Polytechnique, Sciences Po Lille, Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye).
A political scientist by training, Sam holds a master's degree ifrom the Université de Montréal and a PhD from Sciences Po Paris.
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Contact: samuel.faure (at) uclouvain.be
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