Advisor to the National Defence Institute. Senior Researcher of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, Lisbon Nova University. Born in Lisbon on 11 October 1950. Holder of Law and History Degrees, Lisbon University. Master in Political Science and International Relations, Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques. Former advisor to President Ramalho Eanes (1977 -1986), President Mário Soares (1986-1996) and President Jorge Sampaio (1996-2006). Director of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, Lisbon Nova University (2006-2011). Advisor to the Board of Fundação Oriente. Guest lecturer at Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Speaker at the Higher Military Studies Institute and the Portuguese Catholic University. Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Member of the European-China Research and Academic Network. Member of the LSE Ideas Africa International Affairs Program. Board member of the European Movement.
Focus areas: Theories of International Relations. International Security. Alliances. International planning models. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. European Union. Foreign and national defence policy.
Head of the Multidisciplinary Team of IDN’s Centre for Studies and Research, Director of the National Defence Course and Representative at the Executive Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College.
PhD in Political Science from the University of Twente and a Postdoc in International Relations from the University of Groningen. Researcher at the OBSERVARE Research Centre - UAL.
She was the Assistant Director of the National Defence Institute between 2006 and 2008 and Head of Division of the Research Department of this Institute between 1996 and 2006. She worked in the International Relations Department of the Directorate-General for National Defence Policy between 1991 and 1996. She joined the Ministry of National Defence in 1989 as an advisor to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for National Defence. She directs the journal “Nation & Defence” issued by the National Defence Institute and takes the role of external reviewer in the journals “Journal of Common Market Studies” and “International Relations”.
Areas of expertise: International Relations and Security Studies (theories of international relations, European foreign security and defence policy and foreign policy of small states).
Studies Advisor to the National Defence Institute, Assistant Director of the National Defence Course and Director of the Cybersecurity and Crisis Management in Cyberspace Course.
Master in Business Administration (MBA) with specialisation in Information Management (UCP, 1997); Degree in Military Sciences - Artillery Branch (Military Academy, 1984) and Decision-Making Systems Engineering (COCITE, 1999); Post-Graduation Degree in Operational Research and Systems Analysis (USA, 1990).
With over 40 years of military career, he carried out duties in several units of the Portuguese Army and NATO, namely: Chief of Staff (JALLC/NATO, 2009 - 2013); Head of Operations Division (JALLC/NATO, 2007 -2009); Director of the Army Computer Centre (CIE, 2006 -2007); Assistant Director (CIE, 2004 - 2006); Head of the Projects Office (CIE, 2002 - 2004); Head of the Information Systems Office (EME, 1999-2002); Systems Administrator (CINCSOUTHLANT, 1994 - 1999); Operations Officer (GAC/BMI, 1993-1994); Planning Staff Officer (EME, 1990-1993) and Battery Commander (RAC, 1984-1990).
He has been a lecturer at several universities and polytechnics for over 20 years, in the fields of Information Technologies and Information Security, Operational Research and Statistics.
Areas of expertise: Information Management, Information Security and Information and Communication Technologies.
Infantry Colonel, Advisor to the National Defence Institute.
He served in the Infantry Training School in Mafra as an instructor, staff officer and commander at several levels and also as head of the Army Trainers Pedagogical Training area. He participated in missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina as EU Monitor (ECMM), in Angola as military advisor to the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) within the TMC programme, in East Timor as 2nd Commander of an FND (National Deployed Force) within the UN and in Afghanistan as a NATO deployed element and Military Advisor within an FND. Member of NATO’s Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC); JALLC representative for the implementation and development of ISAF/Afghanistan Lessons Learned system; Team Leader for the establishment and operation of a Kandak-level (Battalion) Lessons Learned system in the Afghan National Army (ANA). As Head of the Army’s Lessons Learned Office (RepLA), he implemented and developed the Lessons Learned capacity within the Portuguese Army.
He is responsible, at IDN, for the Civil Crisis Management Course, IDN Youth Seminars and IDN’s representation in the Ibero-American Defence College and the 5+5 Defence College.
She is a lecturer at ISCSP, Lisbon University, since 1995, as an Assistant Professor. She holds a degree (1994) and a Master’s degree (1999) in International Relations from ISCSP, as well as a PhD degree in Social Sciences from the same Institute (2009). She was an Assistant Professor at the International University, Lisbon Centre, between 1994 and 1999. She was a Lecturer at the Naval War College (2003-2006), the Naval School (2006) and the Coimbra University School of Economics, in the International Relations Course of (2011), and is invited regularly as a guest lecturer at several higher education institutions.
She is a researcher at the Centre for Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) of ISCSP, the National Defence Institute and the Research and Development Centre of the Military University Institute (CIDIUM).
She was an advisor to the Military Higher Education Council (2011 -2016).
She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Geopolitics”, the Editorial Board of the journal “Security & Defence”, the Editorial Board of the “Portuguese Journal of International Affairs” and the Editorial Board of “Janus.net”. Member of the Advisory Board of the journal “Proelium”.
Areas of expertise: United Nations and the use of force, conflict resolution, security and defence organisations, public security policies, arms control, human rights and international criminal justice.
Researcher at the National Defence Institute and Integrated Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She was an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Lusiada University. She was the Coordinator and Head of the International Relations Section of the Portuguese Political Science Association, from 2012 to 2016. Her research focuses on Germany’s foreign policy, the Atlantic Alliance, the EU common security and defence policy, major powers and the international order.
Her latest publications include: “Euro-Atlantic Security after Trump: relations between the EU and NATO”, 2017, Atena Collection, IDN; “The Erosion of the Transatlantic Security Community” (with Carlos Gaspar), Nation and Defence, IDN, 2019; “European Defence and German Defence Cooperation”, Nation and Defence, IDN, 2018; “German foreign policy, the Ukraine Crisis, and the Euro-Atlantic order: Assessing the dynamics of Change”; and “Germany’s Eastern Challenge and the Russia-Ukraine Crisis: A new Ostpolitik in the Making?”, with Vladimir Handl, German Politics, 2018.
Pedro Seabra is an Assistant Professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, Deputy Director of the Center for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) and a Advisor at the National Defence Institute (IDN). He is also Director of the PhD program in History, Security Studies and Defence. He holds a PhD in Political Science, with a specialization in International Relations from the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS, ULisboa).
Between April 2022 and April 2024, he worked as an Adviser in the Cabinet of the Minister of National Defence of the XXIII Constitutional Government of Portugal. Previously, he was a Nuclear Security Fellow at the School of International Relations-Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), a SUSI Fellow of the US State Department and a Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellow of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). In 2022 he was selected as a Paris Young Defence Leader by the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire (IRSEM) and as Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund of the US (GMF). In 2019 he was a Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Relations-University of Brasília, Brazil (IREL-UnB) and at Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII). Between 2013 and 2016, he was a Visiting Researcher at IREL-UnB, at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, South Africa (GovInn-UP) and at ICS, ULisboa.
His main research interests focus on international relations, international security, South Atlantic geopolitics, and security capacity-building in Africa and his publications verse on such topics as well as on Brazilian and Portuguese foreign and defense policy, Africa and Lusophone countries.
Lecturer of International Relations at the Lusiada University, Advisor to the National Defence Institute and Researcher at the Portuguese Institute for International Relations (IPRI- UNL). PhD in Political Science from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. His study areas cover International Relations; Strategy, Geopolitics and Geostrategy; Europe, North America and Russia; Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
He is the author of several publications including “Nuclear Iran: The Incomplete Report”, IDN Newsletter No. 22, November/December 2007; “The Iranian Crossroads: Nuclear Weapons and Geostrategic Consequences”, Summer 2007, in partnership with Bernardo Pires de Lima; “Elections in Nigeria”, IDN Newsletter No. 19, May/June 2007; “Africa. Security and Access to Petroleum Resources”, IDN Newsletter No. 14, August 2006; “Lebanon: the Syria Equation”, IDN Newsletter No. 2, April/May 2005; “The Elections in Palestine and the Peace Roadmap", IDN Newsletter No. 1, March 2005; “The Armed Forces and Portuguese Democracy, 1974 -1982”, summer 2000; “The Road to Memory: Chronicles of the Communist Crisis”, Quetzal Editora in partnership with Carlos Gaspar; " Crossroads: Portugal, Europe and the United States", Bertrand, 2004, in partnership with João Marques de Almeida.