Maria Raquel Freire

Contacts
rfreire@fe.uc.pt

Biography

Maria Raquel Freire, PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK, is researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She is also Visiting Professor in the Post-Graduate Programme in International Relations, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She was the Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PRONE, and held a Jean Monnet Chair, at the University of Coimbra. She is currently involved in the research projects Mediatized EU (H2020), Warn (Erasmus+) and CARSI (Marie Curie Staff Exchange). She was a visiting professor and/or researcher at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (FLAD Visiting Professor); Osaka University, Japan; KULeuven, Belgium, among others. In 2019 she was awarded the 'FEUC Science' prize. Her research interests focus on peace studies, foreign policy, international security, European Union, and Eurasia. She has published extensively on these topics.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Freire, Maria Raquel; Santos, Sofia José; Crivelente, Moara Assis; Bezerra, Luiza Almeida (2023), "EU Representations in Portuguese Media and Populism: Embodying Political Antipodes?", Media and Communication, 11, 4

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Article in Scientific journal

Pérez-Escoda, Ana; Freire, Maria Raquel (2023), "Digital literacy and technopolitics, core enablers in a disintermediated digital political communication age", Profesional De La información, 32, 4

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Book Chapter

Freire, Maria Raquel (2023), Organização para a Segurança e Cooperação na Europa, in Nuno Severiano Teixeira e Alice Cunha (org.), Dicionário Portugal Multilateral - Volume III. Lisboa: Edições Almedina, 110-128