Debating a new Survey on the legacies of Portuguese Colonial Empire in Contemporary Democracy at the Portuguese National Library with my colleagues, Jorge Vala, Alice Ramos, Nuno Domingos, chaired by Diogo Ramada Curto.

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Debating a new survey on the Legacies of Colonialism in Portuguese Democracy

Participating at the Conference "Construcción y expansión de las Nuevas Ultraderechas nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas y Europa", FLACSO-Equador, Quito.

2026-27 Renato Morelli Doctoral Scholarship at Corpus Christi College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.

Costa Pinto warns: “if Portugal one day has a president who is also the leader of an electorally dominant party, he will have ample capacity to change the nature” of the Portuguese system. “(...) Portugal is far from having experienced all the dimensions of the semi-presidential system.”

Participating in this Debate, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

In Quito for this conference at FLACSO- Ecuador, where I will present one of the Conferencias Magistrales on " Las genealogías político-culturales de la Derecha Radical contemporánea. Comparando olas de autocratización".

The official celebrations of April 25, 1974, the day the Portuguese dictatorship fell, are now accompanied on an equal basis by November 25, 1975. The radical right has returned to its usual themes: the imperial past and the veterans of the colonial wars versus the present democratic "corruption".

I am pleased to announce that my book The Fascist Zenith. War and Dictatorship under Axis Rule has been published today by Cambridge University Press. The e-book version is available for free download until December 10th 2025.

Is Russia’s Hybrid War on Europe Becoming Conventional?

Torn between Putin and Trump, Germany's #AfD chooses: both, because it's not really a contradiction

Call for applications for the FLAD Visiting Professorship, Georgetown University, Department of Government, 2026-27.

The three opinion polls on "Portuguese decolonization and its legacies," conducted in Portugal, Cape Verde, and Angola in 2025, are available for download (in Portuguese).

50 years after Angola's independence, 44% of Angolans disagree with the removal of symbols of Portuguese colonialism, and 30% are in favor. We will publish today the results of polls in Portugal, Cape Verde, and Angola on the 50th anniversary of Portuguese decolonization.

O seminário vai debater os resultados da sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados», realizada pelo CESOP-UCP, sob coordenação de João António e António Costa Pinto, em parceria com a Comissão Comemorativa 50 anos do 25 de Abril e a RTP.

It was a real pleasure to discuss the excellent Ph. Dissertation of Leo Pavesi, on "Corporatism as Cultural Transfer between Italian, Portuguese, and Brazilian Jurists (1920s-1950s)", with Irene Stolzi (Law, U. Florence) and Maddalena Carli (U. Teramo) at the U. degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II".

— Call for papers — International Conference "Democracy Under Siege: Global Fascism, Populism, and Illiberalism", Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, June 18-20, 2026. Deadline for proposals of papers, panels, "meet the author", and "research projects" sessions, January 31, 2026.

Following the agreement between the centre-right and the radical right party Chega to restrict access to Portuguese nationality for immigrant residents, the Portuguese Prime Minister made the official announcement with eight (!) national flags...

Happy to share my our publication in @sespjournal.bsky.social by Tiago Silva and me on the 2024 EP Elections in Portugal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...., part of a Special Issue on the 2024 EP Elections in Southern Europe, edited by Aldo Paparo, @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social and myself. 1/5

A tribute to André Freire, a Portuguese Political Scientist recently deceased.

Estado ameaça expulsar estudantes imigrantes legais que fugiram da guerra na Ucrânia

Mortágua, leader of the Left-wing Bloc (BE), resigned after the poor electoral results of the Portuguese radical left in the last two legislative elections: 2024- 4.36%, 5 MPs; 2025-1.99%, 1 MP, but the electoral decline has little to do with leadership.The new left party, Livre, helped the burial.

An homage to Leonardo Morlino. Piety not to be there.

Presentation of another book of the series "The 25th of April seen from Outside" in the Óbidos Book Fair, "The City and the Revolution", with the author, Pedro Ramos-Pinto (U. Cambridge), Guya Accornero (ISCTE-IUL), Maria Inácia Rezola, Commissioner of the Celebrations of the 25th of April 1974.

An homage to Anton Pelinka.

On Local Elections in Portugal.

Local elections in Portugal: A shift to the right, but in favor of the center-right rather than the radical right. The Socialist Party came in second, recovering well of its heavy defeat in this year's legislative elections. The radical right had meager results but consolidated a national structure.

Excellent debates this week on this conference at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.

Even if it wins few municipalities, the Portuguese radical right-wing party, CHEGA, will consolidate a national structure in these local elections in Portugal, as I state in this Guardian article.

It is time to create a Nobel Prize for Democracy, since "peace" is not exactly what is at stake in Venezuela or in other autocracies.

With Martina Bitunjac (Potsdam), Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin), Federico Finchelstein (New York), Roger Griffin (Oxford), Irina Nastasă-Matei (Bucharest), Luisa Passerini (Florence), Antonio Costa Pinto (Lisbon), Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (Berlin), Jason Stanley (Toronto), Richard Wolin (New York).

Interesting post, but not sure if Hungary will follow the path described by JOSEP COLOMER, after more than a decade of consolidated "competitive authoritarianism".

Debating (and challenging) the concept of "Competitive authoritarian" as a regime type. Opening session of the MA in Politics, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.

The alliance between the center-right and the radical right on immigration policy is consolidating in Portugal. After the constitutional court's veto, another version has just been approved by Parliament, with the opposition of all left-wing parties.

Joining Canada, Australia, the UK, and France, the center-right Portuguese government recognized the State of Palestine.The populist radical right party expressed reservations, and the micro coalition partner CDS as well, although not activating the issue, since public opinion was largely in favor.

Chairing the panel "The Radical Right in Brazil and Portugal", this morning, at the V ABRE Meeting, University of Salamanca, with Anthony Pereira (Tulane University) Francisco Martinho (USP, Brazil); João Gabriel Lima (ICS-ULisbon), where we met Elena Martinez Barahona, an old friend and Colleague.