Maria Raquel Freire
Biography
Maria Raquel Freire, PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK, is researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She is also Visiting Professor in the Post-Graduate Programme in International Relations, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She was the Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PRONE, and held a Jean Monnet Chair, at the University of Coimbra. She is currently involved in the research projects ProTest (Horizon Europe) and CARSI (Marie Curie Staff Exchange). She was a visiting professor and/or researcher at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (FLAD Visiting Professor); Osaka University, Japan; KULeuven, Belgium, among others. Her research interests focus on peace studies, foreign policy, international security, European Union, and Eurasia. She has published extensively on these topics.
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Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Freire, Maria Raquel; Santos, Sofia José; Crivelente, Moara Assis; Bezerra, Luiza de Almeida (2025), Mediatized discourses on Europeanization in Portugal, in Lika Tsudaldze, Tanya Lokot, Sonia Boulos (org.), Mediatized Discouses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions. Madrid: Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 253-280
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Freire, Maria Raquel (2025), Repensar a segurança europeia: desafios e possibilidades para a UE enquanto ator de segurança, in Isabel Camisão, Dulce Lopes, Licinia Simão (org.), A Construção Europeia 40 Anos de Reflexão em Coimbra. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 409-426
Article in Scientific journal
Freire, Maria Raquel (2025), "Um alargamento geopolítico num contexto contestado. Dinâmicas de fronteira no reposicionamento da União Europeia a leste", R:I Relações Internacionais, 86, 31-46
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