Estoril Political Forum 2019
27th International Meeting in Political Studies [Est. 1993]
Hotel Palácio, Estoril - June 24-26
"The Transatlantic Alliance: 75 Years After D-DAY; 70 Years After the Founding of NATO; 30 Years After Tiananmen; 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall”
Papers:
Opening Session
Opening Address by Isabel Capeloa Gil
Opening Address by Pedro Norton
Opening Address by Carlos Carreiras
Opening Address by João Carlos Espada
Opening Address by Rita Seabra Brito
Central and Eastern Europe: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
"Thirty Years of Transition" by Dóra Győrffy
"Thirty Years after 1989 Revolutions: Roles Reversed?" by Ghia Nodia
Adolfo Suarez Memorial Debate: Iberoamerican perceptions of the future world order
"The NATO and democracy seen from Spain" by Angel Rivero
Lusophone Africa: The Challenges Ahead
"Desafios de Moçambique Após os Ciclones IDAI e Kenneth" by Alfandega Majoro
"Desafios e Perspectivas Políticas Actuais em Angola" by Raúl Tati
Tribute to Professor Adriano Moreira
Tribute to Professor Adriano Moreira by Manuel Braga da Cruz
Oratio Sapientiae, Adriano Moreira
Security in Asia: The Challenges Ahead
"The Emerging Security Landscape in Southeast Asia" by Narayanan Ganesan
"The Security Architecture in East Asia" by Gen Kikkawa
Breakout Session IEP Research Centre (CIEP)
"Pope John Paul II, the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe’s future" by Cristina Sá Carvalho
"Towards a Strategic EU-NATO Security Partneship in Africa" by Marco Marsili
"A urgência na adaptação a novos desafios num complexo contexto" by Nuno Amado
Faith and Liberty Lifetime Tribute
Award Presentation by Manuel Braga da Cruz
Speech by Award Recipient João Alberto Pinto Basto
Konrad Adenauer Memorial Dinner
Speech by Daniela Schlegel
Photo gallery available soon
Ever since 1993, the Annual International Political Studies Meetings (Estoril Political Forum) have brought together academics, students, politicians, business leaders, opinion makers and journalists in an open debate on the issues surrounding politics and international relations.
This international forum is recognised as a program of excellence endowing students and other participants the opportunity to learn and engage with some of the most renowned specialists in the field while simultaneously building up a broad reaching network of international contacts.
The Estoril Political Forum is considered unique within the Portuguese scenario and has already established its position as a landmark in international terms, especially in Anglo-American circles. The Forum is associated with the summer program run by the Boston College, University of Colorado at Boulder, the College of Europe (Natolin/ Warsaw), EUROPAEUM (a consortium of the ten longest established European universities, headquartered in Oxford), Jagiellonian University (Krakow), King’s College (London) and the Royal Institute of Philosophy (London).
This international debating forum is designed for all IEP undergraduate, master and doctoral degree students (under the credit regime) and all other entities and individuals interested in the themes key to Political Science and International Relations.
Throughout the intervening years, the IEP summer courses have attracted over a 6800 participants and speakers.
"These International Meetings, as well as the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal which has hosted them, have been the product of a gradual evolution. They were not made, they have grown, as F.A. Hayek would certainly say. They are the product of an interaction, or a conversation, as Michael Oakeshott would have put it, through which we have been able to build an institution that is larger and more complex than any single mind could have conceived, not to mention, designed.
It all started back in 1993, at the lovely Monastery of Arrabida, and we were then no more than 20 people. From there we have grown gradually. Throughout these last 20 years, a group of international friends has gradually joined our Annual Meetings in Political Studies, while also teaching intensive courses at our Institute."
Prof. João Carlos Espada,
Opening Address of XX Estoril Political Forum (June 2012)
More information: summerschool.iep@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt