Laura C Ferreira-Pereira
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura C Ferreira-Pereira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferreira-Pereira |
| SIGNATURE | FERREIRA-PEREIRA L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4701-1113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Brazil’s foreign policy identity
The Euroscepticism of CHEGA and VOX
The present article seeks to deepen the understanding of CHEGA and VOX by illuminating their particular opposition to major dimensions of the European integration process. Drawing on the analytical model proposed by Vasilopoulou (2009. Varieties of Euroscepticism: The case of the European extreme right. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 5(1), 3–23; 2011. European integration and the radical right: Three patterns of opposition. Government…
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America
EU policy opposition within the post-2008 European parliament
Euroscepticism is a well-established phenomenon in the European Parliament's (EP) fold. Despite the increase of Eurosceptic actors within this institution during the past decade, the knowledge and understanding of the policy space in which Eurosceptic political groups compete with each other remain undeveloped in scholarly literature. This article addresses this gap by examining how the policy opposition led by these political groups has evolved …
Small European states and Brexit
Conceptions of a rogue state in a comparative perspective
This article seeks to understand how the conception of North Korea as a rogue state influenced the relations of Washington and Brussels with this eastern Asian country between 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001) and the outbreak of the pandemic crisis (2020). This is done by drawing on the analytical framework offered by Miskimmon, O'Loughlin, and Roselle that allows one to compare the US and EU strategic narratives vis-à-vis North Korea. Besides addin…
Small EU member states and Brexit
This Special Issue seeks to provide a better understanding of the strategic responses to Brexit from small EU member states. To this end, it links different streams of research and presents innovative inquiries into how ten states positioned themselves in the face of the British exit and with what foreign policy ramifications. More specifically, the collection examines the different countries’ coping strategies vis-à-vis Brexit, the underlying dr…
Portugal’s strategic response to Brexit
Portugal is an often neglected country in the literature on small European states and one which is significantly exposed to the effects of Brexit. While being a core EU member, Portugal has a historic alliance with the United Kingdom, sharing with it an Atlanticist outlook. Drawing on the literature on small states, New Institutionalism and Europeanisation, this article deals with the effects of Brexit on Portugal’s European strategy. More specif…
The Soft Power of China and the European Union in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative and Global Strategy
Soft power has emerged as a topic of growing interest in Chinese foreign policy and its expression gained new salience when it was anchored within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This article proposes a comparative analysis of the soft power of China and the European Union (EU) in the context of the BRI and Global Strategy of June 2016. Drawing on the role theory, this study seeks to fill a gap in previous scholarly works, fo…
Brazil’s quest for autonomy in Asia
This article aims at examining the strategic partnerships Brazil developed with China and Japan, between 2003 and 2020, and assessing how these privileged rapports contributed to the country’s quest for autonomy. This will be made through the lenses of Pragmatic Institutionalism and against the backdrop of major developments in global and regional governance that impacted on the Brazilian autonomist project
Hedging its bets? Portugal’s diplomatic strategies for a post-Brexit Europe
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has deeply impacted politics in the continent. While affecting all European countries, the strategic challenges raised by Brexit have been particularly acute for smaller EU members due to their vulnerability and greater dependence on the Union. This article explores the diplomatic strategies smaller EU member states have pursued to meet the challenges stemming from Brexit. Drawing on the the…
Introduction
Against the backdrop of recent and growing 'conditionality assertiveness' by both the EU and Russia vis-à-vis their neighbouring states, the present contribution critically reviews the existing state of the art on EU conditionality as well as on Russia's emerging conditional approaches within and beyond the Eurasian Economic Union. It proposes an alternative reading of conditionality, accounting for its perception and translation by the individua…
Introduction
[Excerpt] In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the European Union (EU) finds itself in an unprecedented polycentric world while facing a continual necessity to build bridges with different regional poles of political, economic and commercial power. At the same time, the implementation of the foreign and security policy related innovations enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty, devised to empower the EU’s international persona, has been a ch…
The European Union’s partnership policy towards Brazil
This article focuses on the evolving nature of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU) towards Brazil, which gained momentum and became more dynamic and denser after the establishment of a formal strategic partnership (SP) in 2007. It provides a historical overview of the institutional relations between Brussels and Brasília, before proceeding with an analysis of the main drivers behind this novel development. The study goes on to offer a c…
A União Europeia como Ator na Vizinhança do Leste
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e discutir o protagonismo da União Europeia (UE) na sua vizinhança do Leste, visando demonstrar que as relações UE-Ucrânia têm sido instrumentais no aprimoramento da condição de ator internacional desta organização. Tomando como ponto de partida a conceitualização de actorness proposta por Bretherton e Vogler (2006), e sob o pano de fundo da evolução positiva que tem pautado as relações UE-Ucrânia, o presente …
Ukraine in the European Union's Partnership Policy
The relations between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine have been predominantly explained in the light of the European Neighbourhood Policy that ascribes a central role to political conditionality. This analytical approach, however, overlooks the fact that since the 1990s, the EU has been developing a partnership policy that needs to be taken into consideration. This partnership policy was enshrined in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement …
Vietnam's strategic hedging vis-à-vis China
Against the backdrop of China's assertive policies in the South China Sea, the present study evaluates how Vietnam has sought to mitigate the increasingly unequal regional power distribution vis-à-vis China. It argues that Vietnam tends to cope with China mainly by engaging itself in hedging strategies on the basis of diversified and strong relationships with different players. Appraising the roles of Russia and the European Union (EU), the study…
Mutual solidarity’ within the EU common foreign and security policy
International Relations in Portugal
This paper appraises the evolution of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline in Portugal before engaging in an examination of the present state of the field. It is concerned with historical issues, associated with the discipline's journey towards its standing as a social science in its own right in Portuguese intellectual life. It considers institutional developments including those recently generated by the implementation of the …
Portugal and the 2007 EU Presidency
Between Scylla and Charybdis
This article provides a portrait and evaluation of the Portuguese EU policy in the specific domains of security and defence. Based on the negotiation strategy adopted by Lisbon's representatives during the revision process of the successive treaties, it will attempt to illuminate Portugal's commitment to the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) which tends to be conditional upon the respect of four major precepts: the state sovereignty cor…
Inside the Fence but Outside the Walls
The primary focus of this article is the foreign and security policies adopted by Austria, Finland and Sweden during the first post-Cold War decade. The main aim is to examine the policy responses of these three countries in the 1989–99 interval, to the developments that occurred within the principal European security institutions. From a foreign policy standpoint, the argument is that the militarily non-allied states altered their pattern of int…
The Militarily Non-Allied States in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
This article aims to address the adaptation of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union throughout the 1990s. This is done in the light of official positions adopted during the IGC 1996/97 leading up to the signing of the Amsterdam Treaty, and also within the context of the Cologne Summit of June 1999. This article argues that while those militarily non-allied states affected the progress of Maastricht'…
Introduction
[Excerpt] In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the European Union (EU) finds itself in an unprecedented polycentric world while facing a continual necessity to build bridges with different regional poles of political, economic and commercial power. At the same time, the implementation of the foreign and security policy related innovations enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty, devised to empower the EU’s international persona, has been a ch…
Portugal and the 2007 EU Presidency
Ukraine in the European Union's Partnership Policy
The relations between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine have been predominantly explained in the light of the European Neighbourhood Policy that ascribes a central role to political conditionality. This analytical approach, however, overlooks the fact that since the 1990s, the EU has been developing a partnership policy that needs to be taken into consideration. This partnership policy was enshrined in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement …
Vietnam's strategic hedging vis-à-vis China
Against the backdrop of China's assertive policies in the South China Sea, the present study evaluates how Vietnam has sought to mitigate the increasingly unequal regional power distribution vis-à-vis China. It argues that Vietnam tends to cope with China mainly by engaging itself in hedging strategies on the basis of diversified and strong relationships with different players. Appraising the roles of Russia and the European Union (EU), the study…
The Soft Power of China and the European Union in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative and Global Strategy
Soft power has emerged as a topic of growing interest in Chinese foreign policy and its expression gained new salience when it was anchored within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This article proposes a comparative analysis of the soft power of China and the European Union (EU) in the context of the BRI and Global Strategy of June 2016. Drawing on the role theory, this study seeks to fill a gap in previous scholarly works, fo…
Hedging its bets? Portugal’s diplomatic strategies for a post-Brexit Europe
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has deeply impacted politics in the continent. While affecting all European countries, the strategic challenges raised by Brexit have been particularly acute for smaller EU members due to their vulnerability and greater dependence on the Union. This article explores the diplomatic strategies smaller EU member states have pursued to meet the challenges stemming from Brexit. Drawing on the the…
Inside the Fence but Outside the Walls
The primary focus of this article is the foreign and security policies adopted by Austria, Finland and Sweden during the first post-Cold War decade. The main aim is to examine the policy responses of these three countries in the 1989–99 interval, to the developments that occurred within the principal European security institutions. From a foreign policy standpoint, the argument is that the militarily non-allied states altered their pattern of int…
Introduction
Against the backdrop of recent and growing 'conditionality assertiveness' by both the EU and Russia vis-à-vis their neighbouring states, the present contribution critically reviews the existing state of the art on EU conditionality as well as on Russia's emerging conditional approaches within and beyond the Eurasian Economic Union. It proposes an alternative reading of conditionality, accounting for its perception and translation by the individua…
EU policy opposition within the post-2008 European parliament
Euroscepticism is a well-established phenomenon in the European Parliament's (EP) fold. Despite the increase of Eurosceptic actors within this institution during the past decade, the knowledge and understanding of the policy space in which Eurosceptic political groups compete with each other remain undeveloped in scholarly literature. This article addresses this gap by examining how the policy opposition led by these political groups has evolved …
Portugal’s strategic response to Brexit
Portugal is an often neglected country in the literature on small European states and one which is significantly exposed to the effects of Brexit. While being a core EU member, Portugal has a historic alliance with the United Kingdom, sharing with it an Atlanticist outlook. Drawing on the literature on small states, New Institutionalism and Europeanisation, this article deals with the effects of Brexit on Portugal’s European strategy. More specif…
Brazil’s quest for autonomy in Asia
This article aims at examining the strategic partnerships Brazil developed with China and Japan, between 2003 and 2020, and assessing how these privileged rapports contributed to the country’s quest for autonomy. This will be made through the lenses of Pragmatic Institutionalism and against the backdrop of major developments in global and regional governance that impacted on the Brazilian autonomist project
The European Union’s partnership policy towards Brazil
This article focuses on the evolving nature of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU) towards Brazil, which gained momentum and became more dynamic and denser after the establishment of a formal strategic partnership (SP) in 2007. It provides a historical overview of the institutional relations between Brussels and Brasília, before proceeding with an analysis of the main drivers behind this novel development. The study goes on to offer a c…
Between Scylla and Charybdis
This article provides a portrait and evaluation of the Portuguese EU policy in the specific domains of security and defence. Based on the negotiation strategy adopted by Lisbon's representatives during the revision process of the successive treaties, it will attempt to illuminate Portugal's commitment to the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) which tends to be conditional upon the respect of four major precepts: the state sovereignty cor…
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America
International Relations in Portugal
This paper appraises the evolution of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline in Portugal before engaging in an examination of the present state of the field. It is concerned with historical issues, associated with the discipline's journey towards its standing as a social science in its own right in Portuguese intellectual life. It considers institutional developments including those recently generated by the implementation of the …
The Militarily Non-Allied States in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
This article aims to address the adaptation of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union throughout the 1990s. This is done in the light of official positions adopted during the IGC 1996/97 leading up to the signing of the Amsterdam Treaty, and also within the context of the Cologne Summit of June 1999. This article argues that while those militarily non-allied states affected the progress of Maastricht'…
The Militarily Non-Allied States in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
This article aims to address the adaptation of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union throughout the 1990s. This is done in the light of official positions adopted during the IGC 1996/97 leading up to the signing of the Amsterdam Treaty, and also within the context of the Cologne Summit of June 1999. This article argues that while those militarily non-allied states affected the progress of Maastricht'…
Inside the Fence but Outside the Walls
The primary focus of this article is the foreign and security policies adopted by Austria, Finland and Sweden during the first post-Cold War decade. The main aim is to examine the policy responses of these three countries in the 1989–99 interval, to the developments that occurred within the principal European security institutions. From a foreign policy standpoint, the argument is that the militarily non-allied states altered their pattern of int…
Between Scylla and Charybdis
This article provides a portrait and evaluation of the Portuguese EU policy in the specific domains of security and defence. Based on the negotiation strategy adopted by Lisbon's representatives during the revision process of the successive treaties, it will attempt to illuminate Portugal's commitment to the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) which tends to be conditional upon the respect of four major precepts: the state sovereignty cor…
Portugal and the 2007 EU Presidency
International Relations in Portugal
This paper appraises the evolution of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline in Portugal before engaging in an examination of the present state of the field. It is concerned with historical issues, associated with the discipline's journey towards its standing as a social science in its own right in Portuguese intellectual life. It considers institutional developments including those recently generated by the implementation of the …
Mutual solidarity’ within the EU common foreign and security policy
Vietnam's strategic hedging vis-à-vis China
Against the backdrop of China's assertive policies in the South China Sea, the present study evaluates how Vietnam has sought to mitigate the increasingly unequal regional power distribution vis-à-vis China. It argues that Vietnam tends to cope with China mainly by engaging itself in hedging strategies on the basis of diversified and strong relationships with different players. Appraising the roles of Russia and the European Union (EU), the study…
A União Europeia como Ator na Vizinhança do Leste
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e discutir o protagonismo da União Europeia (UE) na sua vizinhança do Leste, visando demonstrar que as relações UE-Ucrânia têm sido instrumentais no aprimoramento da condição de ator internacional desta organização. Tomando como ponto de partida a conceitualização de actorness proposta por Bretherton e Vogler (2006), e sob o pano de fundo da evolução positiva que tem pautado as relações UE-Ucrânia, o presente …
Ukraine in the European Union's Partnership Policy
The relations between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine have been predominantly explained in the light of the European Neighbourhood Policy that ascribes a central role to political conditionality. This analytical approach, however, overlooks the fact that since the 1990s, the EU has been developing a partnership policy that needs to be taken into consideration. This partnership policy was enshrined in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement …
The European Union’s partnership policy towards Brazil
This article focuses on the evolving nature of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU) towards Brazil, which gained momentum and became more dynamic and denser after the establishment of a formal strategic partnership (SP) in 2007. It provides a historical overview of the institutional relations between Brussels and Brasília, before proceeding with an analysis of the main drivers behind this novel development. The study goes on to offer a c…
Introduction
[Excerpt] In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the European Union (EU) finds itself in an unprecedented polycentric world while facing a continual necessity to build bridges with different regional poles of political, economic and commercial power. At the same time, the implementation of the foreign and security policy related innovations enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty, devised to empower the EU’s international persona, has been a ch…
Introduction
Against the backdrop of recent and growing 'conditionality assertiveness' by both the EU and Russia vis-à-vis their neighbouring states, the present contribution critically reviews the existing state of the art on EU conditionality as well as on Russia's emerging conditional approaches within and beyond the Eurasian Economic Union. It proposes an alternative reading of conditionality, accounting for its perception and translation by the individua…
The Soft Power of China and the European Union in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative and Global Strategy
Soft power has emerged as a topic of growing interest in Chinese foreign policy and its expression gained new salience when it was anchored within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This article proposes a comparative analysis of the soft power of China and the European Union (EU) in the context of the BRI and Global Strategy of June 2016. Drawing on the role theory, this study seeks to fill a gap in previous scholarly works, fo…
Brazil’s quest for autonomy in Asia
This article aims at examining the strategic partnerships Brazil developed with China and Japan, between 2003 and 2020, and assessing how these privileged rapports contributed to the country’s quest for autonomy. This will be made through the lenses of Pragmatic Institutionalism and against the backdrop of major developments in global and regional governance that impacted on the Brazilian autonomist project
Hedging its bets? Portugal’s diplomatic strategies for a post-Brexit Europe
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has deeply impacted politics in the continent. While affecting all European countries, the strategic challenges raised by Brexit have been particularly acute for smaller EU members due to their vulnerability and greater dependence on the Union. This article explores the diplomatic strategies smaller EU member states have pursued to meet the challenges stemming from Brexit. Drawing on the the…
Portugal’s strategic response to Brexit
Portugal is an often neglected country in the literature on small European states and one which is significantly exposed to the effects of Brexit. While being a core EU member, Portugal has a historic alliance with the United Kingdom, sharing with it an Atlanticist outlook. Drawing on the literature on small states, New Institutionalism and Europeanisation, this article deals with the effects of Brexit on Portugal’s European strategy. More specif…
Small EU member states and Brexit
This Special Issue seeks to provide a better understanding of the strategic responses to Brexit from small EU member states. To this end, it links different streams of research and presents innovative inquiries into how ten states positioned themselves in the face of the British exit and with what foreign policy ramifications. More specifically, the collection examines the different countries’ coping strategies vis-à-vis Brexit, the underlying dr…
EU policy opposition within the post-2008 European parliament
Euroscepticism is a well-established phenomenon in the European Parliament's (EP) fold. Despite the increase of Eurosceptic actors within this institution during the past decade, the knowledge and understanding of the policy space in which Eurosceptic political groups compete with each other remain undeveloped in scholarly literature. This article addresses this gap by examining how the policy opposition led by these political groups has evolved …
Small European states and Brexit
Conceptions of a rogue state in a comparative perspective
This article seeks to understand how the conception of North Korea as a rogue state influenced the relations of Washington and Brussels with this eastern Asian country between 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001) and the outbreak of the pandemic crisis (2020). This is done by drawing on the analytical framework offered by Miskimmon, O'Loughlin, and Roselle that allows one to compare the US and EU strategic narratives vis-à-vis North Korea. Besides addin…
The European Parliament’s democracy promotion activities in the face of autocratization in South America
Brazil’s foreign policy identity
The Euroscepticism of CHEGA and VOX
The present article seeks to deepen the understanding of CHEGA and VOX by illuminating their particular opposition to major dimensions of the European integration process. Drawing on the analytical model proposed by Vasilopoulou (2009. Varieties of Euroscepticism: The case of the European extreme right. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 5(1), 3–23; 2011. European integration and the radical right: Three patterns of opposition. Government…
Political science (21 works) · Politics (18 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · International trade (15 works) · European union (14 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Foreign policy (11 works)