IEPAS2021 – Invited Speakers
Prof. Ken Booth
Dr Sandra Fernandes
Sandra Fernandes is an Assistant Professor and researcher at the Research Centre of Political Science (CICP) at the University of Minho (Portugal). She holds a PhD in Political Science, specialising in International Relations, from Sciences Po (Paris). Her research interests include European studies, the post-Soviet space, the European Union’s external action, the relationship between the European Union and Russia, foreign policy analysis, international security and multilateralism.
She collaborated with the Portuguese Embassy to the Russian Federation during the Portuguese Presidencies of the EU in 2007 and 2021 in Moscow. In 2009, she participated in a training session in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) on the EU’s foreign policy, organised for diplomats and senior officials from the Persian Gulf countries. She also contributed to the “EU Study Week”, organised by the Delegation of the European Commission in Voronezh (Russia). In 2010, she participated in a round table in Geneva (Switzerland) with experts and official authorities to discuss the prospects for European security architecture. She also participates regularly in the “Baltic EU Conversations” at the Latvian Parliament.
She has a wide range of published works, nationally and internationally, including Intra-European Union Dynamics: The Interplay of Divergences and Convergences. In Romanova, Tatiana and David, Maxine (eds). The Routledge Handbook of EU-Russia Relations. Structures, Actors, Issues. Abingdon, UK: Routledge (2021). She has also been a speaker at national and international scientific conferences, colloquiums and lectures, in addition to interviews with national and foreign media.
Dr Sónia Sénica
She is a researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA). She was coordinator of a research project at the Luso-American Development Foundation (2016). Participant in the course “Diplomatic Protocol” of the École Nationale d’Administration in Paris (2008). Postgraduate in “Theory and Diplomatic Practice” at the Lusíada University of Lisbon (2004). Participant in the course “Russia and the contemporary world” of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow (2003). Guest lecturer with several participations in the national and international media.
Latest Publication:
“The Bear has taken the honey: Putin’s Russia predictability”, in Trends and Transformation in World Politics, Eds. by Ozgur Tufekci and Rahman Dag, Lexington Books (2021 forthcoming).
Prof. Scott Lucas
