O investigador @pseabra.bsky.social esteve no programa Causa e Efeito da RTP, analisando as recentes cimeiras do G20 na África do Sul e UE–União Africana em Angola 🌍 👉 rtp.pt/play/p14377/... #ceinosmedia

📣 Entre Continentes: Repensar as Relações UE-África 🗓 4 dezembro | 18h | Auditório 306, Edifício 4, Iscte Com intervenção de Rita Laranjinha (MNE) e mesa-redonda com António Raimundo, Luís Mah, Carina Franco e Ana Vanessa Veiga. Moderação: @pseabra.bsky.social Entrada livre. #UEAfrica

‼️📢 New @ecfr.eu brief Our programme director, Alex Vines wrote a piece on #Angola, host of the current AU-EU Summit. The country is pursuing a strategy of purposeful non-alignment and is becoming an increasingly important “middle power” in the world. 📑🌍👇

My new commentary ahead of the #AUEUSummit 🌍𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐚 is a 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞's global relevance. Europe should integrate projects and scale on the minerals value chain, rebalance relations with the US and engage new players like the UAE. 👉https://bit.ly/4p2x9dJ @ecfr.eu @ecfrafrica.bsky.social

🌿Após o sucesso da I edição, o @cei-iscte.bsky.social e o Instituto da Defesa Nacional abrem inscrições para o II Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações Climáticas, de janeiro a março de 2026! Programa de topo, inscrições até 9 de janeiro aqui 👉https://shorturl.at/k87Lz Mais info👇

25 Years of Partnership between the #AU and #EU: How can we strengthen peace and security? @julianbergmann.bsky.social calls for closer cooperation in conflict prevention, peace mediation, and cyber resilience ahead of the #AUEU25 summit. 🔍 Read more in his spotlight: t1p.de/f0bsl

📣 Reminder: make sure to submit your workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 and section proposals for #EISAPEC26 soon! ✅ PEC section chair deadline: 17 November 2025 ✅ EWIS workshop proposal deadline: 24 November 2025

U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

📢 New study alert! Leverage and Limits: What African Actors Make of the New #Multipolarity explores how #Africa navigates a new world order. 18 authors, 8 chapters, and 1 deep dive into security, democracy, trade, infrastructure, minerals, digital policy and urban development. 🧵

New from me @wpr.bsky.social on UN Day. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/un-day-guter...

📢 Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence - check out our policy advice. 🖥️⛔ @ecfr.eu 1️⃣ Follow Africa's way 2️⃣ Develop a compelling narrative 3️⃣ Boost funding for independent media More here 👉 buff.ly/y6VuG2a

📢 Amanhã decorre a abertura do Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa. A oradora convidada é Raquel Beleza da Silva (investigadora CEI-Iscte) com a comunicação "Narrativa, Memória e Resistência: Repensando a segurança em tempos de violência do Estado." A entrada é livre 👇

Review of International Studies #freetoread articles for the UN's 80th anniversary! 🎉 Exploring all aspects of the UN from its creation to it's failures to measure up to its ideals and values 📚 Read here: https://ow.ly/P2FJ50X7NPZ Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR Jonas Tallberg

A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic. Read more ⤵️

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026! ⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R 🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025

After Ukraine, Moscow may turn its attention south. Africa Corps is already paving the way.

📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social @egmontinstitute.bsky.social “The Cost of Forgetting Africa in Security Strategy” #Africa #Security #Geopolitics #EUdefence 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/mr226je2

The UN80 Initiative, a plan to restructure the United Nations, aims to make it more agile in responding to global challenges—but its proposed budget cuts and agency consolidations have drawn scrutiny. Here’s a rundown ⬇️

According to the new War.gov site, we have a lot more military bases in China and Russia than I realized. www.war.gov/About/

📢 🌍 It's official: following Bologna’s turn last week, the next 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations from @europeanisa.bsky.social will be taking place in Lisbon, between 1 and 4 September 2026, with @cei-iscte.bsky.social as the local organizer! Start sharpening those abstracts!

✈️ Russia's charm offensive in Africa Africa has become one of the most visited regions by Putin & Lavrov since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, alongside the Middle East & South Asia. More in #UnpowerRussia: ow.ly/MgPL50VWxzx

Renewed insurgent activity in the Palma district of Mozambique during the first two weeks of August has forced subcontractors working for TotalEnergies in the region to suspend some activities. www.defenceweb.co.za/land/land-la...

For a fleeting moment last year, Nairobi was Washington’s darling, and Kenya was designated a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA), the first in sub-Saharan Africa. Just over a year later, that all lies in tatters. Why?

📢 Call for Applications: 1 Assistant Researcher in Social Sciences (International Relations, International Studies or related areas) at CEI-Iscte. 📌 Permanent contract under private law (3-year trial) 🔗 Details & apply: recrutamento.iscte-iul.pt/jobs/652 #ceiiscte #AcademicJob

🎓 6ª Fase de Candidaturas Aberta Encontra-se aberta, até 27 de agosto, a 6ª fase de candidaturas ao Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa, um programa em parceria com a Academia Militar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Ez...

🎓 Candidaturas abertas às bolsas de doutoramento do Iscte 🗓️ Até 17 de setembro, pode candidatar-se a duas modalidades de bolsas de doutoramento. Bolsas destinadas a estudantes que: 🔹Se inscrevam pela 1.ª vez num doutoramento da ESPP 🔹 Frequentem o 1.º ano em 24/25 ℹ️ recrutamento.iscte-iul.pt/jobs

🗓️ It’s official: @cei-iscte.bsky.social will host #ECAS2027 - one of largest conferences in the world on African Studies - in Lisbon, from June 30 to July 3, 2027 🌍

📢 Encontra-se aberta 1 #BolsadeInvestigação (nível Mestre) do SocioDigital Lab – Iscte, no âmbito da revista Portuguese Journal of Social Science📚 🗓️ Candidaturas até 6 julho 2025 🔗 Info: sociodigitallab.iscte-iul.pt/post/bolsa-d... #iscte #sociodigitallab #PJSS

🎙️Investigadores do CEI no "Por África, Com África" da RTP África @pseabra.bsky.social, Vasco Martins e Luís Bernardino falaram sobre o Futuro da CPLP e os desafios da comunidade lusófona. 📺 Veja aqui: rtp.pt/play/p14720/... #CEI #CPLP #RTPÁfrica #Investigação #PolíticaInternacional

📢 For the first time ever @cei-iscte.bsky.social is a institutional partner of the NATO Public Forum, which will take place during the #NATOSummit on June 24–25 Register to follow the proceedings here👉 lnkd.in/d6ggSewU I will be at the Hague for the next few days, so DM if you are in town as well!

🎓 Até 25 de junho candidate-se à 5ª fase de candidaturas ao Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa do Iscte - parceria com a Academia Militar. 🔗 www.iscte-iul.pt/curso/codigo... #CEI #ISCTE #História #Segurança #Defesa #PhD

🟣Tomada de Posse da Comissão Científica do CEI-Iscte Iniciou funções a nova Comissão Científica do @cei-iscte.bsky.social, integrada pelas investigadoras Ana Lúcia Sá, Cátia Miriam Costa e Cristina Sousa. A Subdireção mantém-se com Giulia Daniele e Pedro Seabra. 📄 cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/05/toma...

@pseabra.bsky.social e Ana Lúcia Sá - @cei-iscte.bsky.social - publicaram um novo artigo na Contemporary Politics sobre a entrada da Guiné Equatorial na CPLP e os limites das organizações internacionais na promoção da democracia 📝 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CEI #publicacaocientífica

How to account for alleged democratization drives led by IOs in the face of resilient authoritarian applicants? Me and Ana Lúcia Sá explore this puzzle in the case of Equatorial Guinea and the CPLP through an article just published in Contemporary Politics!👇🏻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📖 Encontra-se disponível o n.º 85 da R:I (Março 2025), organizado por Bruno Cardoso Reis e @pseabra.bsky.social, investigadores do @cei-iscte.bsky.social, sobre "A invasão da Ucrânia e o futuro das Relações Internacionais". 🔗 ipri.unl.pt/index.php/pt... #CEI #Ucrania #geopolitics

📖Os Investigadores @pseabra.bsky.social e Vasco Martins, publicaram o capítulo “Angola” no Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2025). Uma análise da evolução das FAA no pós-guerra civil. 🔗 academic.oup.com/book/59717/c... #CEI #publicacaocientifica #OxfordUP

📢 The deadline for submitting proposals to the 23rd Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Studies Association in Lisbon has been extended to 17 May. 📅The event takes place from 14 to 16 July at Iscte. More information: transatlanticstudies.com #TSA2025 #CEI #CallForPapers

"The waning African support for Ukraine underscores the limits of urging African leaders to reconsider their neutral stance invoking respect for territorial integrity" says Suzanne Tisserand in her first @ecfr.eu commentary. 📑👇 buff.ly/9uvfPaL

In March, the EU and #SouthAfrica held their first joint summit in seven years. The EU success depends on its ability to effectively balance principles with interests. It needs to sustain its usual agenda while adapting to the complexities of a multipolar world.🌍🤝 @ecfr.eu buff.ly/SpdTKgj

🎉 O CEI-Iscte foi classificado como "Excelente" pela FCT na avaliação de Unidades de I&D! Este reconhecimento destaca a qualidade científica, o impacto social e a dinâmica colaborativa do centro. Parabéns a toda a equipa 👏 #CEI #Iscte #Investigação cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/04/cei-...

📢Call for Papers - Cadernos de Estudos Africanos Special issue on ‘Sound Revolutions’, marking 50 years of independence in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Angola. 📅Submissions until 15/07 to [email protected] 🔗 bit.ly/3G3HLrh #CEI #CallForPapers

The US has cut off military aid & defense cooperation with South Africa, per a recent executive order. This includes Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and International Military Education & Training (IMET) programs. /1

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

O Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa (Iscte + Academia Militar) proporciona uma formação rigorosa para compreender os desafios da segurança num mundo global. 📅 3ª fase de candidaturas até 1 de abril. 🔗 bit.ly/41y0jZf #CEI #PhD #historia #defesa

📢 Call for Papers - Political Violence and Popular Culture 📅 20-21 Nov 2025 | 📍 Iscte - Lisbon Submit your abstract by 15 May 2025. cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/03/call... #CEI #CFP #PoliticalViolence #popularculture

🎙️O subdiretor do @cei-iscte.bsky.social, @pseabra.bsky.social, falou recentemente ao @publico.pt sobre a evolução dos investimentos da União Europeia em defesa. Veja o artigo completo 👇 publico.pt/2025/03/09/m... #CEI #media #defesa

Estão abertas as inscrições para o Curso de Curta Duração "Acesso a Carreiras Europeias e Internacionais", do @ipps-iscte.bsky.social, em colaboração com o @cei-iscte.bsky.social, Instituto Diplomático e Yepso!. 💻 Ensino online Mais informações👉http://bit.ly/43wN3oG #CEI #CarreirasInternacionais