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Álvaro de Vasconcelos

Nationality:

  Portuguese 

Languages:

  Portuguese, English, French, Spanish

Areas of expertise:

  Global governance, European integration and Mediterranean issues

Álvaro de Vasconcelos has been Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies since May 2007.

Prior to this, he headed the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (IEEI) in Lisbon, of which he is a co-founder, from 1981 to 2007 where he launched several networks including the Euro-Latin American Forum and EuroMeSCo.

As well as being a regular columnist in the Portuguese and international press, he is author and co-editor of many books, articles and reports, notably in the areas of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Euro-Mediterranean relations and on the theme of world order, such as Portugal: A European Story, La PESC: Ouvrir l'Europe au Monde, The European Union, Mercosul and the New World Order, and A European Strategy for the Mediterranean.

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Publications

  • ESPAS Report ‘Global Trends 2030 - Citizens in an Interconnected and Polycentric World’

    Global Trends 2030 - Citizens in an Interconnected and Polycentric World assesses the long-term, international and domestic, political and economic environment facing the European Union over the next 20 years.

  • Listening to Unfamiliar Voices – The Arab Democratic Wave

    Written by the Director of the EUISS, Álvaro de Vasconcelos, this new book assesses how the Arab democratic wave is part of a wider shift towards a post-Western world in which the global agenda is no longer defined by the West alone and other ‘unfamiliar’ voices may be heard.

  • Egyptian democracy and the Muslim Brotherhood

    This publication examines the current context and future prospects in Egypt ahead of the first round of parliamentary elections in November, with special attention to the role and position of the Muslim Brotherhood. The contributors examine the various options, opportunities and challenges facing both domestic and external actors with regard to the country’s future and the Muslim Brotherhood’s political trajectory.

  • Global governance — building on the civil society agenda

    This volume examines the role of civil society actors in global governance. It explores how civil society organisations are contributing to the global dialogue on key issues such as humanitarian assistance, peacebuilding and development. The book explores the impact of civil society on governance and the democratisation process.

  • The Agenda for the EU-US strategic partnership

    This volume brings together contributions based on reports originally presented at the 2010 EU Washington Forum and is divided into four main chapters which focus specifically on Europe’s ‘unfinished business’ in the Western Balkans and the eastern neighbourhood, the Middle East, transatlantic cooperation on the economy and nuclear non-proliferation.

  • A camp for Syrian refugees in Hatay province, Turkey, 24 June 2011.

    Syria: the BRICs must help enact the Responsibility to Protect

    The brutal repression unleashed by Assad’s regime has reached levels that can no longer be tolerated by the international community. The violent crackdown clearly amounts to a crime against humanity. It is imperative that the international community acts before it is too late.

Activities