Author Archives: CEI IUL

Germany and the United States: no longer united in safeguarding the transatlantic security community?

The Transatlantic Security Community – the core centre of the liberal post-war international order – is being challenged by internal and external crises. Internal factors like the rise of populist… Read more »

Playing the long game: the EU’s approach to political change in Kenya

The EU has long been a major promoter of democratic values. Many African countries count the EU and its member states as their highest donors of foreign aid. Such is… Read more »

External action and self-determination: the coherence of EU external action with the principles of customary international law in the light of the Western Sahara Campaign

The paper represents a continuation of my research on the relationship between European Union external action and international law, published last year on the European Foreign Affairs Review. The aim… Read more »

Europe as a Global Actor – 2018

Photos from EGA 2018: Programme EGA 2018 May 24th 9h00 | Registration – Floor 2, Building II 09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese Keynote Speaker: Augusto Santos… Read more »

Europe as a Global Actor – 2017

Programme 19 June 2017 9h30 | Registration Floor 1, Building II 10h00| Opening Remarks Room B1.03, Building II Fernando Luís Machado (Vice-Rector for Research, ISCTE-IUL) Helena Carreiras (Director, School of Sociology and… Read more »

Challenges to the Europe: Rise of Populism and Russian Aggression

This paper is focused on the ongoing populism wind in Europe and power struggle with Russia over European peninsula. In the paper, a comparative perspective on the populist movements in… Read more »

Strike softly, strike harder: assessing the role of Russia’s state-owned media outlets in the European refugee crisis

This paper attempts to analyze how Russia’s state-owned media outlets have framed the European refugee crisis that has started in 2015. As a key development in the European neighborhood, the… Read more »

European security at a crossroads? The EU-Russia dispute for power and influence over the shared neighbourhood before and after the Ukrainian crisis

The so-called shared neighbourhood in Eastern Europe (i.e. Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus) has been increasingly disputed by the European Union (EU) and Russia. Since the EU’s eastern enlargements, the Union… Read more »

The EU as an Interorganisational Influencer? Three Cases

This paper seeks to address the EU’s role as an interorganisational influencer on other regional organisations and how it is able move beyond effective multilateralism as emphasised in the EU… Read more »

Migration crisis in the EU: security perceptions

The current migration and refugee crises are one of the most important geopolitical challenges the EU must face today. These crises seem to depend on two critical uncertainties: (i) the… Read more »