Paulo Afonso B Duarte
Biographic Data
| ID | 4607686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paulo Afonso B Duarte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paulo Afonso B |
| FAMILY NAME | Duarte |
| SIGNATURE | DUARTE P A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1675-2840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Environmental Diplomacy of the Belt and Road Initiative
This article examines China’s environmental diplomacy through the Green Silk Road (GSR), a relatively recent yet strategically significant aspect of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While existing literature has extensively analysed the economic and geopolitical dimensions of the BRI, the environmental narrative remains underexplored, especially concerning China’s international role. Drawing on Role Theory and Moral Realism, this study investi…
Disability welfare in the age of techno-feudalism
This article examines how techno-feudal dynamics are reshaping disability-related welfare through digital surveillance, automated eligibility and platform-driven fiscal constraints. It fills a gap by connecting techno-feudal theory with empirical research on digitalised disability welfare and Basic Income, using Keohane and Nye’s transnational international relations lens to show how digital infrastructures reconfigure sovereign authority and to …
The Smart City illusion
This study analyzes the application of the Smart City concept to small towns. Current research on Smart Cities primarily focuses on metropolitan areas, creating a significant gap in our understanding of how these concepts can be effectively implemented in less urbanized regions. This work addresses this gap by linking territorial marketing and Smart City paradigms with a focus on cooperation. Based on a qualitative analysis, the study identifies …
Brazil and China's Digital Silk Road
Given the scarce studies on the security issues raised by the Digital Silk Road (DSR), we aim to add novelty regarding the repercussions of this dimension of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by focusing on the case of Brazil. As a major Latin American nation with strong ties to China, Brazil is an extraordinary case study when it comes to assessing the effects of any BRI‐related dimension. Despite Brazil's reluctance in officially joining the B…
China’s Ice Securitization
Given the scarce number of studies on China’s presence and intentions in Antarctica compared to other remote regions, such as the Arctic, this paper draws on securitization theory to demonstrate that, despite China’s discursive efforts to legitimize its Antarctic initiatives through the altruistic narrative of scientific exploration and the protection of the global commons, China’s securitization of the South Pole follows a different approach. In…
Timor-Leste’s foreign policy options within China’s Belt and Road 2.0
Armenia’s Foreign Policy Options Within China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Within the intricate tapestry of global geopolitics, small states occupy a distinctive and nuanced position, encountering a myriad of unique challenges and opportunities. This article critically explores Armenia’s complex engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through the lens of small state theory, accentuating the geopolitical consequences arising from potential border openings following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. Integratin…
Multilateralism and Soft Power Made-in-China
This article addresses the specificities of the new multilateralism made-in-China under Xi Jinping. We argue that China has been investing in a combination of Soft Power and Multilateralism to foster a friendly worldwide environment whilst promoting China’s geopolitical reemergence. Drawing on role theory, we assess whether there has been a shifting trend on China’s soft power and multilateralism, to cope both with international expectations on C…
Rethinking the low profile
The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
A ‘Soft’ Balancing Ménage à Trois? China, Iran and Russia Strategic Triangle vis-à-vis US Hegemony
The recent rapprochement among China, Iran and Russia reveals the emergence of a new, unexpected, regional strategic triangle with the potential to balance the United States’ dominant position. By focusing on the evolution of this strategic triangle in the post-Cold War period, this article investigates the driving forces that bring the three states together, namely the US power and unilateralism as materialised in NATO’s eastward expansion, the …
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…
The Belt and Road Initiative
Monetary policy, inequality and political instability
Voters in the industrialised countries are increasingly expressing dissatisfaction by dissenting from the established political parties and candidates. Based on the concepts of justice by Hayek, Rawls and Buchanan, we argue that the growing dissatisfaction is rooted in the asymmetric pattern of monetary policies since the mid‐1980s for two reasons. First, the structurally declining interest rates and the unconventional monetary policy measures ha…
China’s Momentum
Whose Silk Road
This chapter analyses the convergence, possible overlapping and/or competition of interests between China, the US, Russia and the European regional integration projects and initiatives in Central Asia. In all of these projects, economics plays a key role. The main postulate is that the New Silk Road is in itself an ambiguous concept that encompasses different views on Central Asian regionalism according to the interests of each country. Among the…
Soft China
O presente artigo analisa outra vertente (por vezes ignorada ou subestimada) do conceito de poder, o soft power, relacionando-o com o caso concreto de uma potência em ascensão: a China. Inicia-se por definir a noção de soft power, distinguindo-a, para este efeito, dos conceitos de hard power e de smart power. Se, numa primeira fase se recorrerá, sobretudo, à teoria para destacarmos as principais características do soft power, a segunda etapa, ess…
The Old and the New World
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…
The Old and the New World
Soft China
O presente artigo analisa outra vertente (por vezes ignorada ou subestimada) do conceito de poder, o soft power, relacionando-o com o caso concreto de uma potência em ascensão: a China. Inicia-se por definir a noção de soft power, distinguindo-a, para este efeito, dos conceitos de hard power e de smart power. Se, numa primeira fase se recorrerá, sobretudo, à teoria para destacarmos as principais características do soft power, a segunda etapa, ess…
Whose Silk Road
This chapter analyses the convergence, possible overlapping and/or competition of interests between China, the US, Russia and the European regional integration projects and initiatives in Central Asia. In all of these projects, economics plays a key role. The main postulate is that the New Silk Road is in itself an ambiguous concept that encompasses different views on Central Asian regionalism according to the interests of each country. Among the…
Monetary policy, inequality and political instability
Voters in the industrialised countries are increasingly expressing dissatisfaction by dissenting from the established political parties and candidates. Based on the concepts of justice by Hayek, Rawls and Buchanan, we argue that the growing dissatisfaction is rooted in the asymmetric pattern of monetary policies since the mid‐1980s for two reasons. First, the structurally declining interest rates and the unconventional monetary policy measures ha…
China’s Momentum
The Belt and Road Initiative
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…
The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
A ‘Soft’ Balancing Ménage à Trois? China, Iran and Russia Strategic Triangle vis-à-vis US Hegemony
The recent rapprochement among China, Iran and Russia reveals the emergence of a new, unexpected, regional strategic triangle with the potential to balance the United States’ dominant position. By focusing on the evolution of this strategic triangle in the post-Cold War period, this article investigates the driving forces that bring the three states together, namely the US power and unilateralism as materialised in NATO’s eastward expansion, the …
Multilateralism and Soft Power Made-in-China
This article addresses the specificities of the new multilateralism made-in-China under Xi Jinping. We argue that China has been investing in a combination of Soft Power and Multilateralism to foster a friendly worldwide environment whilst promoting China’s geopolitical reemergence. Drawing on role theory, we assess whether there has been a shifting trend on China’s soft power and multilateralism, to cope both with international expectations on C…
Rethinking the low profile
Brazil and China's Digital Silk Road
Given the scarce studies on the security issues raised by the Digital Silk Road (DSR), we aim to add novelty regarding the repercussions of this dimension of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by focusing on the case of Brazil. As a major Latin American nation with strong ties to China, Brazil is an extraordinary case study when it comes to assessing the effects of any BRI‐related dimension. Despite Brazil's reluctance in officially joining the B…
China’s Ice Securitization
Given the scarce number of studies on China’s presence and intentions in Antarctica compared to other remote regions, such as the Arctic, this paper draws on securitization theory to demonstrate that, despite China’s discursive efforts to legitimize its Antarctic initiatives through the altruistic narrative of scientific exploration and the protection of the global commons, China’s securitization of the South Pole follows a different approach. In…
Timor-Leste’s foreign policy options within China’s Belt and Road 2.0
Armenia’s Foreign Policy Options Within China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Within the intricate tapestry of global geopolitics, small states occupy a distinctive and nuanced position, encountering a myriad of unique challenges and opportunities. This article critically explores Armenia’s complex engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through the lens of small state theory, accentuating the geopolitical consequences arising from potential border openings following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. Integratin…
The Environmental Diplomacy of the Belt and Road Initiative
This article examines China’s environmental diplomacy through the Green Silk Road (GSR), a relatively recent yet strategically significant aspect of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While existing literature has extensively analysed the economic and geopolitical dimensions of the BRI, the environmental narrative remains underexplored, especially concerning China’s international role. Drawing on Role Theory and Moral Realism, this study investi…
Disability welfare in the age of techno-feudalism
This article examines how techno-feudal dynamics are reshaping disability-related welfare through digital surveillance, automated eligibility and platform-driven fiscal constraints. It fills a gap by connecting techno-feudal theory with empirical research on digitalised disability welfare and Basic Income, using Keohane and Nye’s transnational international relations lens to show how digital infrastructures reconfigure sovereign authority and to …
The Smart City illusion
This study analyzes the application of the Smart City concept to small towns. Current research on Smart Cities primarily focuses on metropolitan areas, creating a significant gap in our understanding of how these concepts can be effectively implemented in less urbanized regions. This work addresses this gap by linking territorial marketing and Smart City paradigms with a focus on cooperation. Based on a qualitative analysis, the study identifies …
Political science (11 works) · China (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 works) · Economy (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Soft power (5 works) · Business (4 works)