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European citizenship in quest of a political culture: supranational by law or t...

The present article raises crucial questions regarding European citizenship. How has European citizenship been constructed and manifested within the legal and political domains of the European integration project, and how European citizens perceive their rights and duties across supranational and transnational manifestations of European citizenship? The main argument of this article is that European citizenship...

Estratégia Europeia em Busca de uma “Consciência Planetária”: Uma Cidadania Eco...

This article examines the European environmental strategy and, in particular, the nature of a European ecological citizenship. It argues that the European environmental strategy, despite its importance, is mainly based on a model of nature management, giving citizens a central role in this management. The current legal-political framework does not demonstrate a new paradigm of ‘planetary consciousness’ capable ...

Crisis of the Political and the Human Rights

This volume intends to contribute to a re-evaluation on the current political crisis and the need for human rights-centred political alternatives.

The EU Human Rights paradigm: Re(politicizing) European Integration Evanthia Balla

This work contributes towards the discussion of bringing values and human rights at the centre of the debate over the future European political model. In this context, the first section of this chapter presents the foundational values of the EU and the main critiques and scepticisms on human rights related to the EU’s nature. The following section explores the evolution of the EU’s constitutional framework and ...

The European Union’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

This chapter empirically explores and theoretically analyzes the EU’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. In this regard, an overview of the Syrian refugee crisis is presented, followed by an analysis of the EU’s Response to this humanitarian and security calamity. Thereafter the pros and cons of the European response through the lenses of European integration theories are discussed. Overall, it is argued th...

Reflexões sobre a Guerra na Ucrânia: Novas ilusões ou verdadeiras promessas par...

No dia 24 de fevereiro a invasão da Ucrânia pela Rússia coloca fim a um período de três décadas de uma ‘paz fria’, como descrito por Bugajski (Bugajski 2004). Na realidade, após o fim da guerra fria, o Oriente e o Ocidente distanciaram-se sistematicamente. Entre 1999 e 2020 a OTAN (Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte), desconsiderando as promessas verbais que a administração americana sob a liderança de G...

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Conferência "Gestão de crises e missões de apoio à sociedade civil"

Relatório da Conferência realizada na Universidade de Évora no dia 29 de novembro de 2022, integrada no Ciclo de eventos públicos no quadro da revisão do Conceito Estratégico de Defesa Nacional, por Rita Costa, Jacinta Sampaio

Reflexões sobre a guerra na Ucrânia: novas ilusões ou verdadeiras promessas par...

A União depara-se com uma nova realidade trágica e inesperada, ou como Timothy Gardon Ash, o conhecido historiador e professor de Estudos Europeus da Universidade de Oxford relata, ‘vestida apenas com os fragmentos das nossas ilusões perdidas’. No seu artigo publicado um dia após a invasão, Timothy Gardon Ash coloca uma pergunta, simples, mas ao mesmo tempo desafiante devido a problemática que expõe: porque é q...

European Crises and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Lega Nord

This study adopts a threefold narrative. Firstly, it offers a conceptual analysis of right-wing populism in a post-truth age. This section focuses on the definitions and links between European right-wing populism and the post-truth. The second section discusses the relationship between the crises, the rise of populism and the post-truth age. It shows that since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Eur...