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Defence and climate change: An introduction Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of security, including by states and by traditional providers of national security within states: Defence and the military. This article introd...

Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📚 Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa (Iscte | Academia Militar)
Formação doutoral em História, Segurança e Defesa, com seminários no 1.º ano, ciclo de conferências e regime pós-laboral.

📌 2.ª fase de candidaturas até 25 de fevereiro
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#CEI #PhD

Africa in 2026: Global uncertainty demands regional leadership Africa can no longer rely on intermittent international attention to safeguard peace, democracy and economic resilience.

Conflicts across Africa, such as in Sudan, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, remain unresolved as international attention and mediation efforts are stretched or focused elsewhere. https://bit.ly/4bwFXVi

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
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Ten African Security Trends from 2025 in Graphics Africa experienced growing regionalization of conflicts, militant Islamist group offensives, military coups, and external actor rivalries.

Close out 2025 with a look at 10 key security trends in Africa, told through 23 graphics. These graphics tell a story of increasingly regionalized conflicts, seizures of power, external interventions, demographic pressures—and progress in economy and infrastructure.

📣The #EISAPEC26 will take place at Iscte from 1 to 4 September! The local host for this event is CEI-Iscte.

The general call for papers is open! Find all the information about submissions 👇
eisa-net.org/pec-2026/

@europeanisa.bsky.social

Já se encontram abertas as candidaturas para os Doutoramentos do Iscte.
📅 1.ª fase até 14 jan 2026

Explore os 4 programas geridos pelo CEI-Iscte e candidate-se.
iscte-iul.pt/estudar/dout...

2ª Edição do Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações Climáticas - CEI-Iscte O Instituto da Defesa Nacional (IDN) e o Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa organizam a 2ª edição do Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações ...

📢 Candidaturas abertas!
2.ª edição do Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações Climáticas (org. CEI-Iscte e Instituto da Defesa Nacional).

💶 Propina: 200€
🎓 30% desconto p/ estudantes, alumni e entidades públicas
📅 Até 9 jan 2026

🔗 Info:
cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/11/curs...

1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

📣 Abstract submission for #EISAPEC26 is now open!

🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026

🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz

Abertura do Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual – 8.ª Edição - CEI-Iscte Candidaturas com o CEI-Iscte como instituição de acolhimento O Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Iscte (CEI-Iscte) informa que está a aceitar manifestações de interesse para acolhimento instituciona...

O CEI-Iscte está a aceitar manifestações de interesse para acolhimento na 8.ª edição do concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual (FCT).

📅 Prazo para manifestações: 22/12/2025

🔗 cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/12/aber...

📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social & Sofie Rose
@egmontinstitute.bsky.social

"From the Donbas to Africa: How Returning Fighters Could Fuel a New Mercenary Wave"

#RussiaUkraineWar #DDR #SecurityPolicy #Mercenaries #PMC #WagnerGroup #AfricaSecurity

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/4u26f84k

Causa e Efeito Cimeira do G20 e Cimeira da UE-UA - Na última semana, o continente africano recebeu dois importantes encontros de líderes internacionais. A cimeira

O investigador @pseabra.bsky.social esteve no programa Causa e Efeito da RTP, analisando as recentes cimeiras do G20 na África do Sul e UE–União Africana em Angola 🌍

👉 rtp.pt/play/p14377/...

#ceinosmedia

📣 Entre Continentes: Repensar as Relações UE-África
🗓 4 dezembro | 18h | Auditório 306, Edifício 4, Iscte

Com intervenção de Rita Laranjinha (MNE) e mesa-redonda com António Raimundo, Luís Mah, Carina Franco e Ana Vanessa Veiga.
Moderação: @pseabra.bsky.social

Entrada livre.

#UEAfrica

Middle power dreaming: The geopolitics of Angola’s emergence | ECFR Angola is increasingly active in the world. Here is how Europeans can cooperate with this rising middle power.

‼️📢 New @ecfr.eu brief
Our programme director, Alex Vines wrote a piece on #Angola, host of the current AU-EU Summit. The country is pursuing a strategy of purposeful non-alignment and is becoming an increasingly important “middle power” in the world.
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Europe, Angola and the UAE: Navigating competition on Africa’s Atlantic coast Angola’s close cooperation with the UAE demonstrates Africa’s diversification of external partners. Europe needs to overcome internal disunity, temper its reliance on the US and engage with emerging…

My new commentary ahead of the #AUEUSummit
🌍𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐚 is a 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞's global relevance. Europe should integrate projects and scale on the minerals value chain, rebalance relations with the US and engage new players like the UAE.
👉https://bit.ly/4p2x9dJ
@ecfr.eu @ecfrafrica.bsky.social

🌿Após o sucesso da I edição, o @cei-iscte.bsky.social e o Instituto da Defesa Nacional abrem inscrições para o II Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações Climáticas, de janeiro a março de 2026! Programa de topo, inscrições até 9 de janeiro aqui 👉https://shorturl.at/k87Lz Mais info👇

Portugal na COP30: arrumar a casa cumprindo a Lei de Bases do Clima Portugal, que se quer afirmar como exemplo de ambição climática, não deveria chegar a Belém com a casa desarrumada, com falhas de credibilidade para pedir aos outros aquilo que se comprometeu a fazer.

www.publico.pt/2025/11/13/a...

Assessing 25 Years of Partnership between Africa and Europe: Closer Cooperation in Peace and Security At the seventh AU-EU summit, the focus in the area of peace and security should be on crisis prevention and mediation, cybersecurity, the...

25 Years of Partnership between the #AU and #EU:
How can we strengthen peace and security?

@julianbergmann.bsky.social calls for closer cooperation in conflict prevention, peace mediation, and cyber resilience ahead of the #AUEU25 summit.

🔍 Read more in his spotlight: t1p.de/f0bsl

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira: “As elites angolanas não confiam no futuro do país” As estratégias de diversificação económica não foram bem-sucedidas e “um dia destes” em Angola “não haverá dinheiro para alimentar as massas críticas do regime”, que estão “alienadas” e “zangadas”.

www.publico.pt/2025/11/11/m...

📣 Reminder: make sure to submit your workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 and section proposals for #EISAPEC26 soon!

✅ PEC section chair deadline: 17 November 2025

✅ EWIS workshop proposal deadline: 24 November 2025

U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence

U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

📢 New study alert!

Leverage and Limits: What African Actors Make of the New #Multipolarity explores how #Africa navigates a new world order.

18 authors, 8 chapters, and 1 deep dive into security, democracy, trade, infrastructure, minerals, digital policy and urban development. 🧵

Once Again, the U.N. Will Have to Adapt to Survive The U.N. will have to tap into its ability to shape-shift, which has been key to its resilience for the past 80 years.

New from me @wpr.bsky.social on UN Day.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/un-day-guter...

📢 Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence - check out our policy advice. 🖥️⛔ @ecfr.eu
1️⃣ Follow Africa's way
2️⃣ Develop a compelling narrative
3️⃣ Boost funding for independent media
More here 👉 buff.ly/y6VuG2a

📢 Amanhã decorre a abertura do Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa.

A oradora convidada é Raquel Beleza da Silva (investigadora CEI-Iscte) com a comunicação "Narrativa, Memória e Resistência: Repensando a segurança em tempos de violência do Estado."

A entrada é livre 👇

Cover image for Review of International Studies detailing: RIS Review of International Studies 80 years of the UN with the RIS logo.

Review of International Studies #freetoread articles for the UN's 80th anniversary! 🎉

Exploring all aspects of the UN from its creation to it's failures to measure up to its ideals and values 📚

Read here: https://ow.ly/P2FJ50X7NPZ
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR Jonas Tallberg

Two Cables and the Hidden Subsea Battle Between US and China A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic.

A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic.

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A Rogue Nation on the High Seas Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.

“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. #EISAPEC26

PEC 2026 Local hosts and programme chairs. 1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Giulia Daniele, Local Host. Ana Mónica Fonseca, Local Host. Elizaveta Gaufman, Programme Chair. Nizar Messari, Programme Chair.

📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026!

⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R

🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025

Russia Is Shrewdly Playing the Long Game in Africa What if Moscow’s most dangerous moves right now aren’t in Europe, but along the Gulf of Guinea? With its resources sunk deep into Ukraine, the Russian

After Ukraine, Moscow may turn its attention south. Africa Corps is already paving the way.