Carlos Artur Gallo (Universidade de Pelotas); Filipa Raimundo (Iscte-IUL); Elena Barahona (Universidade de Salamanca); Joana Rebelo Morais (ICS-IUL); Vincent Druliolle (University of Deusto)
"Transitional Justice after Clean Breaks: The Case of Portugal" offers a nuanced exploration of how national political actors shape transitional justice in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes. The book tackles two primary objectives: understanding the mechanisms linking the opening of a window of opportunity with transitional justice choices and unraveling the lasting effects of early decisions on justice after democracy consolidates.
Filipa Raimundo and Joana Rebelo Morais present a comprehensive theoretical framework, intertwining institutional and attitudinal factors to explain the processes of coming to terms with the past that emerge out of clean break transitions. The lens provided by Portugal’s unique case study illustrates the effect of preemption and strategic calculation as well as the enduring impact of early choices in shaping the trajectory of transitional justice.
Focusing on democracies emerging from collapsed regimes, this book contends that the delegitimization of the autocratic elite and its exit from power are as relevant as the anti-dictator bias and the authoritarian stigmas in shaping transitional justice debates and decision-making.
APCP President, Madalena Meyer Resende
ISCTE Vice Dean, Prof Helena Carreiras
Local Organisation, ISCTE, Pedro Seabra
Local Organisation, ISCTE, Filipa Raimundo
CIES-ISCTE Director, Teresa Patrício
CEI-ISCTE Director, Ana Mónica Fonseca
William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth. He is the author or editor of eleven books and some 70 articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the Cold War and its end to unipolarity and contemporary U.S. grand strategy. He received his doctorate in Political Science from Yale and before coming to Dartmouth taught at Georgetown and Princeton. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Strategic Studies at Yale, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, and the Hoover Institution. His most recent book, with Jilll Kastner, is A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion (Oxford, 2025).
In this keynote Prof. Wohlforth will honour Nuno Monteiro with a discussion of the theory of unipolarity.
Video testimonials: Hermann Schmitt (University of Manchester) and José Ramón Montero (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
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André Freire (Lisbon, April 25, 1961 - October 30, 2024) was a distinguished political scientist, professor and researcher. With a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Lisbon, he stood out for his pioneering contribution to studies on electoral behaviour and political representation in Portugal. Freire was a professor at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where he directed the PhD programme in Political Science. As a researcher at CIES-Iscte, he led projects that analysed the attitudes and behaviour of voters and elected representatives, institutions and political representation, and also created the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation. He has published more than 30 books and around 100 academic articles on topics such as left-right ideology, electoral systems and political elites. In addition to his academic activities, Freire actively collaborated in the country's public and political life, where he stood out for his defence of civil, social and political rights. He was a regular presence in the media, collaborating regularly with the newspaper Público and Jornal de Letras. At this APCP Congress, we will remember his legacy to Portuguese Political Science.
Tiago Fernandes Round Table Communication
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE
Victor Pereira Round Table Communication
Professor na Universidade de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour e Investigador do Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC); Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- International Relations Section - Room C401, 4th Floor, Building 2, Iscte-IUL
- African Studies Section - Room C402, 4th Floor, Building 2, Iscte-IUL
- Governance and Local Policy Section - Room C406, 4th Floor, Building 2, Iscte-IUL
- European Studies Section - Room C407, 4th Floor, Building 2, Iscte-IUL
- Governance and Public Policy Section - Room C408, 4th Floor, Building 2, Iscte-IUL
- Political Parties Section - Room C405, 4th Floor, Building 2, Iscte-IUL
Manuel de Lucena (Lisbon, February 7, 1938 - February 7, 2015) was a social scientist, political actor and writer. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Social Sciences Office, later the Social Sciences Institute, led by Adérito de Sedas Nunes. He was one of the first political scientists to be recognised internationally. He spoke with figures such as Juan Linz, Emilio Gentile and Philippe Schmitter about fascism and corporatism, themes that dominated his later research, which also covered totalitarianism, corporatism and the institutionalisation of Portuguese democracy. As a unique researcher, he led three major research projects: the dismantling of the farmers' guilds (and later the economic coordination bodies), interest associations and decolonisation.
On the 10th anniversary of his death, we will remember his work and his legacy to the social sciences.
Olukunle P. Owolabi is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, where he teaches courses on Comparative Politics, African Politics, comparative democratization, and the developmental legacies of colonialism in the Global South. His most recent book, Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects (Oxford University Press, 2023), examines the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. Dr. Owolabi holds degrees from the University of Toronto, Oxford University, and the University of Notre Dame, and he was a visiting fellow at Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies in 2016.
Dr. Owolabi’s keynote will examine the growing relevance of social science research on the developmental legacies of colonialism in the Global South, offering insights from Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects, and other recent titles on this subject.
Paula Duarte Lopes Round Table Communication
Universidade de Coimbra
Vasco Martins Round Table Communication
Teresa Almeida Cravo Round Table Communication
Associate Professor & Researcher - University of Coimbra
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