Following the elections held on 8 April 2025, the new CEI-Iscte Scientific Committee took office on 22 May. Researchers Ana Lúcia Sá, Cátia Miriam Costa and Cristina Sousa are now members of this committee. Researcher Cristina Sousa took office on May 14, before the new composition was formalised. The CEI’s deputy directorate remains unchanged, with […]
CEI-Iscte researchers Pedro Seabra and Ana Lúcia Sá are the authors of the article entitled ‘International organisations and arrested democratisation: Equatorial Guinea and the accession to the CPLP’, recently published in the scientific journal Contemporary Politics, a reference publication classified Q1 in the field of Political Science. The article analyses the impact of authoritarian states […]
Francisco Leandro, researcher at the Iscte Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) and associate professor at the University of Macau, has launched two new publications with Palgrave Macmillan, consolidating his contribution to the study of geopolitics and international relations, with a particular focus on China. Is China a Global Power? The Three Great Walls of the […]
Applications are open for the Summer School in African Politics, which will take place between 30 June and 2 July 2025 at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). The training takes place in English, from 9.30am to 5.30pm, and is aimed at postgraduate students and professionals interested in the political […]
Ana Mónica Fonseca began a new mandate as Director of Iscte’s Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) at a ceremony that took place on 28 April in the Sala de Atos of Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. The ceremony was attended by Iscte’s Rector, Professor Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, as well as Vice-Rectors Maria das […]
Researchers Pedro Seabra and Vasco Martins contributed the chapter entitled “Angola“ to The Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces, published by Oxford University Press in 2025 and edited by Evert Kleynhans and Marco Wyss. The chapter was made available in the online edition of Oxford Academic on 28 February 2025. This publication represents a […]
The Portuguese Journal of Social Science (PJSS), from Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, has a vacancy for an editorial assistant on its team! The PJSS is an English-language interdisciplinary scientific journal that publishes articles in the different social sciences. It favours texts centred on Portuguese society, but also welcomes contributions centred on other realities, […]
Iscte’s Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) was rated Excellent in the evaluation of Research and Development Units (R&D) 2023/2024, promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). This result is an important recognition of the work carried out over the last few years in a consistent and rigorous manner, affirming CEI as a national […]