Raquel Vaz Pinto

Raquel Vaz-Pinto is Assistant Professor of University Autonóma of Lisbon and, since 2012, President of the Portuguese Political Science Association.

She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Catholic University of Mozambique and was Country Researcher for the European Union – Gulf Cooperation Council 2014 report within the Middle East and North Africa Programme (MENA) of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She was also the Portuguese member of the Study of the U. S. Institute on Foreign Policy 2013: American Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy that took place at Bard College, New York.

Raquel Vaz-Pinto is a Member of the Board Commission MA Human Rights, Law Faculty, University of Minho, Portugal and a founding member of the Global Young Academy as well as co-signatory of the 2008 Tianjin Statement of Global Young Scientists «Passion for Science, Passion for a Better World».

She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Aveiro, an MSc in International Politics of Asia and Africa from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a BA in International Relations from University Lusíada. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2006-2009) at the Catholic University of Portugal, where she was also Assistant Professor (2009-2014) and taught several courses at the BA, MA and PhD programmes. Both the PhD and the Post-Doctoral Programmes were conducted with a Grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy and strategy, religion in international relations and US Grand Strategy.

Some publications:

Os Portugueses e o Mundo, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos e Relógio-de-Água, Lisbon, 2014

«Peaceful Rise and the Limits of Chinese Exceptionalism», in RBPI – Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Special Edition: China Rising - Strategies and Tactics of China’s growing presence in the world, Vol. 57, 2014, pp. 210-224.

A Grande Muralha e o Legado de Tiananmen, a China e os Direitos Humanos, Tinta-da-china, Lisbon, 2010

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