Maria Raquel Freire
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.
ORCID
Projetos
MEDIATIZED EU
Mediatized Discourses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Freire, Maria Raquel (2024), Russia's Africa Policy and Its Growing Military Presence in Africa: Foreign Policy Drivers and Implications in Relations with the EU and China, in Li, Leandro, Silva & Rodrigues (org.), The Palgrave Handbook on China-Europe-Africa Relations. Palgrave Macmillan
Book Chapter
Sofia José, Santos; Freire, Maria Raquel (2024), To conquer and protect: Unpacking the Russian instrumentalisation of gendered rhetoric in digital RT amidst the Russian-Ukraine war, in Amaral, Simões & Santos (org.), Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres. London: Routledge
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Freire, Maria Raquel (2024), "Reconfiguring dynamics of bordering/debordering in EU-Eastern neighbours' relations: The EU as locus of resistance", New Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X241240984
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