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IEP Comunication
Universidade Católica Portuguesa has developed a set of measures aimed at the phased resumption of academic and non-academic activities, presented in the “Phased Reactivation Plan of UCP”, available in the COVID-19 area.
The Institute for Political Studies is implementing the replacement of the minimum face-to-face services that cannot be provided at distance, which will work on a prior booking basis, made to the following email (secretariado.iep@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt).
Estoril Political Forum 2020
The 28th edition of the Estoril Political Forum was postponed to 19-21 October 2020. This edition's theme will be "New Authoritarian Challenges to Liberal Democracy".
More information and registrations: summerschool.iep@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt
The Advanced Programme in Diplomacy 2020 (4th edition) has started on July 1 until July 29. For more information, please contact: daniela.nunes@ucp.pt
PROGRAMME
In the last edition of the competition for the diplomatic career (2019), where 1594 applications were registered, 6 IEP alumni are among the 27 admitted candidates. In the penultimate edition (2017), where 1820 applications were registered, 7 IEP alumni are among the 30 admitted candidates.
Click here the announcement of the Diplomatic Portal about the opening of the external competition to enter the diplomatic career
Click here the regulation of the external contest for admission to the diplomatic career - dispatch nº5946 / 2020
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
24 Jun. to 7 Jul.
Examination period of the Spring Semestre (1st Cycle)
1 Jul.
Online Debate - "Democracy in a Digital Era" with Nuno Sampaio (IEP-UCP, Lisbon), Christopher Walker (Vice President for Studies and Analysis National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, DC) and Catherine Marshall (CY Cérgy-Paris Université)
6.30pm (Lisbon/London time)
More information and registrations: secretariado.iep@ucp.pt
2 Jul.
PhD Dissertation Project in Political Science and International Relations: Security and Defense: "Technocrats Or Politicians? The Legitimacy Of Central Banking In Europe", Luís Leal de Faria, MA
Jury: Prof. Fernando Almeida Alexandre, Prof. Orlando Samões
Venue and time (online): Zoom ID 752 191 1951 (to attend, please send an e-mail to posgrad.iep@ucp.pt) - 4.00pm (Lisbon/London time)
3 Jul.
PhD Dissertation Project in Political Science and International Relations: Security and Defense: "Família Igualitária: da subalternização paternal ao declínio da natalidade", Daniela Silva, MA
Jury: Prof. Filipe Faria, Prof. José Tomaz Castello Branco
Venue and time (online): Zoom ID 752 191 1951 (to attend, please send an e-mail to posgrad.iep@ucp.pt) - 4.00pm (Lisbon/London time)
8 Jul.
Online Session: "China, Sharp Power and Economic Statecraft" with Francisco Proença Garcia (Professor, IEP-UCP), William Hasselberger (Professor, IEP-UCP) and Zachary Cooper (Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the German Marshall Fund)
3.00pm (Lisbon/London time)
More information and registrations: secretariado.iep@ucp.pt
8 Jul.
Exam - International Seminars/European Studies (1st Cycle)
9 e 10 Jul.
Registrations for Upgrading Exams 2019/2020
14 Jul.
MA Dissertation in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies: “A case of American exceptionalism: Why is there no socialist tradition in the United States?”, Constança Matos, BA
Jury: Prof. João Carlos Espada, Prof. Marc Plattner, Prof. José Tomaz Castello Branco
Venue and time (online): Zoom ID 745 239 3338 (to attend, please send an e-mail to posgrad.iep@ucp.pt) - 5pm (Lisbon/London time)
17 Jul.
Registrations for Upgrading Evatuation of International Seminars/European Studies 2019/2020
20 to 24 Jul.
Upgrading Evaluation (1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles)
27 to 29 Jul.
Registrations for academic year 2020/2021 (online)
30 Jul.
Registrations for atypical situations
31 Jul.
End of 2019/2020 academic year
Applications for MA and PhD programmes
Academic Year 2020/2021
1st Phase - 27 April to 3 July
1st call
- Written Exam: 17 June
- Interview: 19 June
2nd call
- Written Exam: 8 July
- Interview: 10 July
- Enrollment: 21 to 31 July
2nd Phase - 6 July to 31 August
- Written Exam: 2 September
- Interview: 4 September
- Enrollment: 7 to 9 September
Applications for the BA Programme in Political Science and International Relations will be announced very soon! Stay tuned to our website and our social networks: Facebook and Instagram!
IEP-UCP course coordinators are available to clarify candidates and meet via Zoom or Skype with prior reservation:
- Coordinator of the BA in Political Science and International Relations: Prof. Orlando Samões - samoes@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt
- Coordinator of the MA in Political Science and International Relations: Security and Defense: Prof. Ivone Moreira - imoreira@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt
- Coordinator of the MA in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies: Prof. José Tomaz Castello Branco - jtcb@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt
- Coordinator of the PhD in Political Science and International Relations: Security and Defense: Prof. Mónica Dias - moni@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt
IT HAPPENED LAST MONTH
2 Jun.
OPEN CLASS: European Studies seminar
Conversations on Europe - "The External Relations of the European Union: a Testimony" with José Manuel Durão Barroso and Herman Van Rompuy (6.30pm-7.45pm Lisbon/London time)
5 Jun.
The IEP-UCP Open Day is, since 2013, organized under the format of a simulation of a “Summit of Democracies” led by the event's Director, Prof. Mónica Dias. This is an initiative that invites secondary school students to debate the current political situation and democracy worldwide. In 2020, due to the impossibility of bringing together students, professors and guests in person, the Open Day was held in an online format, joining us through the Zoom platform. Click here to read the Summit of Democracies 2020 Programme.
The Summit of Democracies 2020 was attended by 10 teams of Secondary Schools from North to South of the country (from Moimenta da Beira to Porto, passing through the regions of Coimbra, Lisbon, Cascais, Milfontes to Faro), as well as several students and professors from schools without a team, and 103 participants joined the Opening Session.
The Summit also had the presentation of the Coordinator of the BA in Political Science and International Relations, Prof. Orlando Samões, during the Open Class.
The Institute for Political Studies is very grateful to the European Parliament Representation in Portugal for its kind support, in the person of Dr. Pedro Valente da Silva, Head of the European Parliament's Office in Portugal, who awarded the EUROSCOLA Prize. The prize consists of a trip from the selected school to Strasbourg, to participate in the Euroscola Sessions that take place the following academic year.
Click here to read the news about the Summit of Democracies 2020 on Observador and Expresso.
Welcome Address of the Summit by the Director, Prof. João Carlos Espada
Open Class - Director, Prof. João Carlos Espada, intervention
8 Jun. | The Institute for Political Studies hereby congratulates and commends...
The Institute for Political Studies hereby congratulates and commends Anna Vajas, MA, on defending her MA degree (Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies) dissertation on the theme: "The Challenges and the Nature of Consociationalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries: The Case of Belgium and the Netherlands", on June 8. The candidate was approved with the final classification of 17, Summa cum Laude.
Jury: Prof. José Tomaz Castello Branco, Prof. Nuno Sampaio, Prof. Éva Kőváriné Ignáth
15 Jun.
The Institute for Political Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa congratulates Ana Catarina Caria (student, MA in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies), who on June 15 received a Fulbright Research Grant on International Relations with the support of FLAD.
17 Jun.
Online Debate - "Strategic Challenges in the post COVID-19 World" with Zdzislaw Mach (Jagiellonian University, Krakow), Lívia Franco (IEP-UCP, Lisbon) and Miguel Monjardino (IEP-UCP, Lisbon)
5.00pm (Lisbon/London time)
19 Jun.| Reappointment of the Director of the Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies
The Institute for Political Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa congratulates Prof. André Azevedo Alves, who on June 19 was reappointed as Director of the Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies.
24 Jun. | Conversation on the Estoril Political Forum
On the afternoon of June 24th, when under normal circumstances we would have been at Estoril’s Hotel Palácio well-into the 3rd and final day of the 28th Estoril Political Forum, around 55 participants - including many of this year’s speakers- logged onto a Zoom Session entitled “Conversation on the Estoril Political Forum”. This session's aim was both to look back on past conferences as well as to present the programme of this year’s Estoril Political Forum, which due to the COVID-19 pandemic had to be postponed from the original June 22-24 dates, to those of October 19-21.
We were delighted to have had such a high affluence and to have heard such touching remarks from both the speaker of the session, Dr. Marc Plattner, as well as from other regular speakers and participants of the Estoril Political Forum.
Even though we were not able to be personally together in Estoril, the online Conversation was a very touching and inspiring tribute to the tradition of the Estoril Political Forum and definitely renewed our eagerness for, and made us look forward with a renewed spirit to, October’s Event.
Please click here to read the various statements on the Estoril Political Forum experience
Please click here to see the Estoril Political Forum 2020's programme
Estoril Political Forum, 2019
Arrábida, 1996
IEP ALUMNI CLUB
The main objective of the IEP Alumni Club is to create lasting relationships by supporting the insertion in the job market, mentoring, collaboration among alumni, and through the organization of academic, cultural, social and recreational activities. It is our belief that this will contribute to the recognition of the IEP as an institution of excellence and the quality of its students.
Read the President's full message here.
More information about the IEP Alumni Club: alumni.iep@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt
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"Palestra Anual Alexis de Tocqueville 1998-2018" (Alexis de Tocqueville Annual Lecture 1998-2018) Book
Essentially, the book brings together the Alexis de Tocqueville Annual Lectures, which began in 1998. These are formal ceremonies to award diplomas which are preceded by a lecture by a distinguished guest speaker and followed by a formal dinner.
The name Alexis de Tocqueville may not be widely known, but it was -and continues to be- a name that expresses with particular elegance and distinction the project dreamt by IEP-UCP: a project of university autonomy, of orderly and quiet defense of freedom, of refusal of what Tocqueville called a "sterile conflict between Old Regime and Revolution" or "perpetual oscillation between serfdom and abuse".
- Price: 29.90€ -
Nova Cidadania Journal nº 70 - Acsess exceptionally open
Information: The distribution of Revista Nova Cidadania N.º 70 is dependent on the preventive COVID-19 measures. There may be delays in the delivery to subscribers and points of sale.
Exceptionally, access the entire journal on this page or on the Nova Cidadania page.
Please click here to access the entire journal.
Subscribe and get the Journal at your door!
Also available in the following bookstores:
Almedina, Livraria Jurídica, Férin, Papelaria do Alto (Estoril), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Wook, Pingo Doce stores and directly from IEP-UCP!
20-year IEP Booklet
As part of the 20th Anniversary celebrations of the Institute for Political Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, we are pleased to launch the "IEP-UCP 20-Year Booklet" which provides a retrospective of what we have come to do.
On sale at IEP: 5€
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During the past month, IEP acquired for its library the following books:
- Ackerman, Bruce. Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Berry, David. A People’s History of Tennis. London: Pluto, 2020.
- Bregman, Rutger. Humankind: A Hopeful History. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
- Butterfield, David. 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator 1828–2020. London: Unicorn, 2020.
- Connelly, John. From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
- Gerwarth, Robert. November 1918: The German Revolution. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2020.
- Hankins, James. Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Murphy, James. Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
- Neiman, Susan. Learning from the Germans. London: Allen Lane, 2020.
- Pryce-Jones, David. Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime. New York: Encounter, 2020.
- Sandbu, Martin. The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
- Vanagaitè, Rúte and Efraim Zuroff. Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
Our Fellows' Book Releases
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, by Anne Applebaum (Guest-Speaker, IEP Estoril Political Forum 2005)
The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission, by George Weigel (Guest-Speaker, IEP Tocqueville Lecture, 2002)
Política, Ciência e Consciência, by Pedro Ferro (Guest-Professor, IEP-UCP)
Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood, by James Murphy (Guest-Speaker, Estoril Political Forum, 2015)
Revisiting Richard Rorty, edited by Pedro Góis Moreira (Alumnus, IEP-UCP), with contributions from José Colen (Guest-Professor, IEP-UCP) et al.
A Força das Ideias: História de uma Eleição, by Carlos Guimarães Pinto (Guest-Professor, IEP-UCP)
O Olhar do Outro — Estrangeiros em Portugal: do Século XVIII ao Século XX, by Maria Filomena Mónica (IEP Guest-Professor, 2008)
Visitas ao Poder, by Maria Filomena Mónica (IEP Guest-Professor, 2008)
The Light that Failed- A Reckoning, by Ivan Krastev (IEP International Advisory Board) and Stephen Holmes
A Nossa Época, by Adriano Moreira (Professor, IEP-UCP; Member of the Strategic Council, IEP-UCP)
Inventário, by Jose Cutileiro (IEP Guest-Speaker 2003/2004)
Escola Austríaca, Ética & Liberdade, edited by André Azevedo Alves (Professor IEP-UCP; Scientific Coordinator CIEP; Member of the Board of Directors, IEP-UCP) and Daniela Silva (PhD Student, IEP-UCP)
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, by Archie Brown (Guest-Speaker, 1st Annual Churchill Lecture and Dinner, 2015)
The Conservative Sensibility, por George Will (IEP Guest-speaker, Estoril Political Forum 2020)
Conservative Critics of Political Utopia, ed. Máté Botos (contribuições de Daniela Silva, Prof. Ivone Moreira, Prof. João Pereira Coutinho, José Perez, e Jorge Miguel Teixeira)
A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition, by Ferenc Hörcher (Guest-Speaker, Michael Oakeshott Association's 10th Anniversary Conference 2019)
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons From Those Who Made History, by Andrew Roberts (Guest-Speaker, 5th Annual Churchill Lecture and Dinner 2019)
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilizations, by Samuel Gregg (Guest-Speaker, IEP Estoril Political Forum 2010)
The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880), by Catherine Marshall (Guest Speaker, IEP Estoril Political Forum 2017 and 2019; IEP Guest Lecturer, 2018; IEP Advisory Board)
Retratos Contemporâneos, by Manuel Braga da Cruz (Member of the Board of Directors, IEP-UCP)
A Filosofia Política de Edmund Burke, by Ivone Moreira (Professor, IEP-UCP)
Churchill - Caminhando com o Destino, by Andrew Roberts (Guest-Speaker, 5th Annual Churchill Lecture and Dinner 2019)
Francisco Suárez nos 400 Anos da sua Morte, coordinated by Manuel Braga da Cruz (Member of the Board of Directors, IEP-UCP) and António Vaz Pinto, s. j.
Liberdade como Tradição, by João Carlos Espada (Director, IEP-UCP, Director, Nova Cidadania)
Linhas Direitas - Cultura e Política à Direita, coordinated by Miguel Morgado (Professor, IEP-UCP) and Rui Ramos (Guest Professor IEP-UCP; Member of the Nova Cidadania journal's Editorial Board)
Natal Todo o Ano, by João César das Neves (Member of the Board of Directors, IEP-UCP; Professor CLSBE and IEP-UCP)
O Esplendor da Liberdade no Enigma Conservador: sobre a teoria política de Michael Oakeshott, by Carlos Marques de Almeida (Professor, IEP-UCP)
