Cursos / 2º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: International Relations

POLÍTICA EXTERNA PORTUGUESA (TEMAS AVANÇADOS) - 2019/2020

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 7.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Pedro Mendes
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Pedro Mendes

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 1 Horas
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

The main objective is to develop a reflection on the main continuities and discontinuities of Portuguese foreign policy. Starting from a theoretical framework, we will discuss the historical pattern of contemporary Portuguese foreign policy, its formulation process, its internal and external constraints, as well as the ideational and normative factors present in the definition of national interests and the strategic axes of Portuguese diplomatic activity.

Specific Aims/Objectives

The specific objectives of this curricular unit are the knowledge and understanding of the main concepts, contexts, doctrines, and instruments of Portugal’s Contemporary Foreign Policy.

Skills to be acquired

Acquire the appropriate skills to identify and select the relevant information about the role of Portugal in the World (XX and XXI centuries). To apply, critically and imaginatively, the concepts and approaches studied, allowing developing aptitudes to investigate Portuguese foreign policy issues to conduct master´s theses.

Teaching Procedures

Teaching based on participatory classes, with mandatory interventions on specific cases of Portuguese foreign policy. Study and discussion of case-study and foreign policy situations in a seminar regime. The orientation of the research papers.

Programme

1. Portuguese Foreign Policy: geographical, identity, and historical constraints.
1.1. The historical pattern of contemporary Portuguese foreign policy.
1.2. Portuguese foreign policy in the Estado Novo: the Salazarist period.
1.3. Portuguese foreign policy in the Estado Novo: the Marcellist period.

2. The Portuguese Foreign Policy in the Democratic Regime (1974-2016):
2.1. From the revolutionary period to the institutionalization of the democratic regime (1974 -1976);
2.1.2. The transition to democracy;
2.1.2. Decolonization;
2.1.3. The European option;
2.2. The foreign policy of European and Democratic Portugal (1976-1987);
2.2.1. Portugal and accession to the EEC;
2.2.2. Portugal and the Atlantic;
2.2.3. Portugal´s relations with Spain within the European framework;
2.3. The Foreign Policy of Portugal to the present: the affirmation of national identity in the European and world context (1987-2016);
2.3.1. Overall characterization;
2.3.2. European affairs;
2.3.3. Development cooperation;
2.3.4. Promotion of Portuguese Communities;
2.3.5. The case of Timor;
2.3.6. The Portuguese Language in the World;
2.3.7. Portuguese foreign policy in the context of Latin America
2.3.8. Portuguese foreign policy in the context of Mediterranean and Middle East;
2.3.9 Portuguese foreign policy in the context of the Asia-Pacific region.
2.3.10 Portuguese foreign policy in the context of The Atlantic alliance
3. Continuities and discontinuities in the foreign policy of democratic Portugal
3.1 Comparative analysis of Portugal’s government programs on foreign policy.
4. The general balance of the Portuguese Foreign Policy.

Evaluation Type

A final exam. Continuous assessment Methodology. An individual final research paper about Portuguese foreign policy in the XXI century, with 4000 to 8000 words.

Teaching Resources

In classes are used the audiovisual and computer media made available by the University, namely, through the use of the overhead projector, data show, television and video.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Portugal,
Foreign Policy Analysis,
Empire
Democracy
Europe

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography