Paula Duarte Lopes

Contacts
pdl@fe.uc.pt

Biography

Paula Duarte Lopes is a Research on Peace Studies (International Relations) and a Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (FEUC). She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University with the thesis Water without Borders. She also has a MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from FEUC. She lectures at the undergraduate and graduate programmes in International Relations, including the Masters in Peace, Security and Development Studies and the PhD in International Politics and Conflict Resolution. She received the 2017 Teaching Award by FEUC. She was the Vice-President of CES Scientific Board (2016-2018). She coordinated the research project "PPWater - Public and private responses to the lack of water supply payments: the Portuguese case" funded by FCT, as well as the team who drafted the Development Education National Strategy (2017-2022). Currently she coordinates the Portuguese team in the project ""e-NOTE - European Network on Teaching Excellence" funded by Erasmus +. Her research interests focus on global interventionism dynamics, including peace missions, development aid politics and international water governance. She conducted research in Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, France, Portugal, Mozambique and Timor-Leste.


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Lopes, Paula Duarte (2022), A União Europeia como Ator de Paz e Segurança: Dos Debates Concetuais à Prática, in Maria Raquel Freire; Daniela Nascimento (org.), União Europeia como Ator Internacional: Paz e Segurança nas Narrativas e Práticas. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 24-55

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Book Chapter

Freire, Maria Raquel; Lopes, Paula Duarte; Nascimento, Daniela; Simão, Licínia (2022), EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership: Policies, Instruments and Perceptions, in Maria Raquel Freire; Paula Duarte Lopes; Daniela Nascimento; Licínia Simão (org.), EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 1-12

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Book

Freire, Maria Raquel; Lopes, Paula Duarte; Nascimento, Daniela; Simão, Licínia (orgs.) (2022), EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership. Springer International Publishing

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