Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries Amazon.com: Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries eBook : Curto, Diogo Ramada: Kindle Store

My dear friend Diogo Ramada Curto passed away this Saturday. An excellent historical sociologist, he held for eight years the Vasco da Gama Chair in the History of European Expansion at the European University Institute, Florence. He was director of the National Library of Portugal since 2024.

Competitive authoritarian regimes embedded in a transnational democratic community like the EU have greater difficulty in consolidating full autocracies, and it may happen that, as General Franco said before he died, Orban's political system is "tied up and well tied up" and yet it unravels. But...

Coffee wiith some of the participants in the Workshop "BUILDING AUTHORITARIAN EMPIRES: WAR AND AXIS RULE ACROSS EUROPE AND ASIA", CEU, Vienna, last week: Jeremy Taylor, University of Notingham, Constantin Iordachi, CEU, Daniel Hedinger, University of Leipzig, Enriketa Papa, University of Tirana.

Opening Lecture, Workshop "BUILDING AUTHORITARIAN EMPIRES: WAR AND AXIS RULE ACROSS EUROPE AND ASIA", Central European University, Vienna, Co-organized with Constantin Iordachi.

Celebrating 50 years of the Portuguese democratic constitution. It is aging well, despite threats from the populist radical right.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Representation ‘Bringing together a wide range of leading international scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of classic and contemporary theories on political representation. These issues are at t...

I'm glad that this book-project of the late André Freire finally came out.

I've reviewed this excellent book.

"The single biggest influence on The Sympathizer was António Lobo Antunes’ The Land at the End of the World" says Viet Thanh Nguyen. I was not aware of this influence because The Sympathizer is one of the best novels I've read in the last couple of years.

António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83

"António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83".

The North American base in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, has regained its strategic importance, being used in the current operation to attack Iran.The Portuguese government accepted this, even though it was within the limits of the agreement.

Warning to the Crocodiles (Portuguese Literature) Warning to the Crocodiles (Portuguese Literature) - Kindle edition by Antunes, Antonio Lobo, Sotelino, Karen C. Sherwood. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Warning to the Crocodiles (Portuguese Literature).

The Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes died today. He was by far the best contemporary portraitist of Portuguese society, its imperial past and decolonization, its dictatorship and democratization.

Democracy Under Siege: Global Fascism, Populism, Illiberalism // Eight Convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies // Org. ComFas | ICS - ULisboa ICS-ULisboa / Lisbon / 18-20 June 2026 The debate on the similarities and differences between fascism, authoritarianism, and populism has been present in political discourse since the first half of th...

Call for papers open until March 15, 2026.

Conference on the "politics of the past" of the Portuguese populist radical right at the Convegno "Dopo le Dittature", University of Bologna in Buenos Aires, citing the late Leonardo Morlino and a book I've co-edited with him.

This week in Argentina for this conference at the Campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.

El cordón sanitario en las presidenciales no frena el auge de Chega, más fuerte que nunca en Portugal La victoria de Seguro ha dado un respiro en la llegada de los ultras al poder, pero problemas como la vivienda, los bajos salarios o el desencant

El cordón sanitario en las presidenciales no frena el auge de Chega, más fuerte que nunca en Portugal www.infolibre.es/1_20ba0c

Nota de pesar pelo falecimento do professor José Álvaro Moisés O docente foi um dos fundadores dos estudos da cultura política no país e, durante muitos anos, foi colunista da Rádio USP. O velório acontece neste domingo, dia 15, no prédio da Administração da Facu...

Um amigo e grande ciêntísta político brasileiro da Universidade de S. Paulo.

António Costa’s legacy: The far right in Portugal The ultranationalist Chega party is thriving by campaigning on issues the president of the European Council failed to address while prime minister.

Not at all sure of this title but see bellow.

O rescaldo da vitória sem espinhas do Portugal moderado visto por António Costa Pinto Vamos fazer o rescaldo de uma das eleições presidenciais mais importantes de sempre como o professor António Costa Pinto.

O rescaldo da vitória sem espinhas do Portugal moderado visto por António Costa Pinto.