Networks

V-Dem

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. It provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between seven high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, majoritarian and consensual, and collects data to measure these principles.

RIBEI  –  Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Internacionales

Luís Fretes

The Ibero-American Network for International Studies (RIBEI), is an association of research and analysis centers for international relations specially focused on Latin-American reality. They share non-profit nature and independence of their academic and research activities. Values and principles common to RIBEI members are: the promotion of peace in international relations, economic cooperation and solidarity among States and peoples, respect for human rights and promoting democratic values.

EU  Non-proliferation Consortium

Luís Nuno Rodrigues

EARN – Europe Africa Research Network

Fernando Jorge Cardoso

EARN is a network of African and European Policy Research Institutes, aiming to contribute to the EU-Africa Policy Dialogue. EARN intends to bring added value on pooling and fostering policy research capacities, dialogue, information and partnership between European and African non-governmental research institutions on issues relating to EU-Africa relations.

Direitas, História e Memórias

Riccardo Marchi  (Coordinator for Portugal)

A rede de investigação Direitas, História e Memória, reúne investigadores de diversas nacionalidades que se dedicam aos estudos sobre as direitas em diversas configurações, tanto no aspecto político quanto em caráter histórico e geográfico.

CoopMar

 Cátia Miriam Costa

CoopMar (Transoceanic Cooperation. Public Policies and Iberoamerican Sociocultural Community) is a CYTED network (Iberian-American Scientific and Technological Programme for Development). CoopMar intends to contribute to the design of public polices through the involvement of communities and generate socioeconomic impact. Associating history, memory, culture and new technologies, it aims to offer specific solutions to the Iberian-American societies allying social responsibility and economic sustainability.

CEISAL

Luís Fretes

El objetivo central de CEISAL es promover el conocimiento de América Latina en Europa y en el mundo, a través de la investigación académica interdisciplinaria. Para ello, se organizan diversos seminarios y congresos trienales. CEISAL tiene presencia en otros eventos tales como: los congresos ICA, LASA, distintas actividades organizadas por FLACSO, entre otros. Asimismo, difunde las actividades de sus miembros por distintos canales.

AEGIS – African Studies in Europe

Clara Carvalho

(President)

AEGIS is a research network of European studies centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities, AEGIS’ main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.

ABORNE – The African Borderlands Research Network

ABORNE is an interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in all aspects of international borders and trans-boundary phenomena in Africa. The emphasis is largely on borderlands as physical spaces and social spheres, but the network is also concerned with regional flows of people and goods as well as economic and social processes that may be located at some distance from the geographical border.

EISA – European International Studies Association

EISA is an association serving the International Relations community in Europe and beyond. Its aims to bring together academics and others working in the field and subfields of international studies in Europe and beyond. Activities include a broad range of events, ranging from large scale biennial Pan-European Conferences to the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), PhD summer schools, Exploratory Symposia (ES) and Early Career Researchers Workshops (ECW), the latter organized back-to-back of the Pan-European conferences. EISA publishes the  European Journal of International Relations (with Sage), the PSIR book series (with Palgrave) and is planning a new policy-oriented journal on global affairs. EISA will also run a mail-list facilitating communication within and beyond the European IR community.

European Initiative on Security Studies

The European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS) is a Europe-wide cluster of over eighty universities that share the goal of consolidating security studies in Europe.  It is (i) thematically-driven and open to all theoretical approaches, (ii) interdisciplinary and (iii) geographically inclusive.

Rede de Estudo dos Fascismos, Autoritarismos, Totalitarismos e Transições para a Democracia (REFAT)

Luís Nuno Rodrigues

REFAT é uma estrutura internacional sem fins lucrativos, de promoção da investigação científica e tecnológica sobre os Fascismos, Autoritarismos, Totalitarismos e Transições para Democracia. Tem como objectivos promover a investigação, o ensino, a divulgação e a aplicação de conhecimento científico sobre estes temas e, ainda, a criação de espaços de colaboração entre historiadores e outros cientistas sociais.

ISA RC47 – Research Committee in Social Classes and Social Movements

Research Committee 47 (RC 47) has as its central theme the problem of social movements, social stratification/inequality and the latter’s relationship to changing social structures and processes of societies at large. Its focus is contemporary societies, their institutions and actors. Research Committee 47 emerged as the result of fervent debates within social movement research and intellectual networks – in Europe and America – for more open interdisciplinary approaches. Hence, in the early 1980’s, as the post industrial thesis was fervently resonating throughout the Social Sciences, Research Committee 47 was created as a social movements/collective action response to a fundamental shift in the structure and perception of new and emerging social forces. The prevailing scientific standpoint of Research Committee 47 has been to demonstrate how collective action is related to the innate structures of society.