José Filipe Pinto

Universidade Lusófona | ULHT · Faculdade de Ciências Sociais, Educação e Administração

The European Union is the heir of an ideal of peace and cooperation. However, internal divergences and vicissitudes have made it difficult to materialize the founding vision, allowing the entrance and granting space to populists opposing it. Presenting themselves as heralds of virtue, use the dissatisfaction of parts of the population to insinuate...

Leadership research has often been critiqued for its tendency towards oversimplified and excessive positivity. However, leadership is widely acknowledged to have a political dimension across various entities, from small businesses to multinational corporations and governmental bodies. Utilizing the cultural biopsychological model facilitates a more...

History has shown that leadership is a constant element deeply embedded in our nature due to our prolonged dependency period. In the hunter-gatherer period, leadership fell to the best hunter or the strongest warrior. As human settlements emerged, the selection of leaders continued a practice that remains as humanity still relies heavily on leaders...

The definition of terrorism is not consensual, even within the same country. Indeed, in the United States of America, a country where the fight against terrorism is one of the present political priorities, the definition varies depending on whether the source is the Department of Defense (DoD), the US Code, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

The definition of terrorism is not consensual, even within the same country. Indeed, in the United States of America, a country where the fight against terrorism is one of the present political priorities, the definition varies depending on whether the source is the Department of Defense (DoD), the US Code, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are plutopopulist who are often seen as the creators of a political model or theory. However, this vision represents a fallacy because both Trump and Putin are more the result than the cause of the political system. History proves that populism is not recent both in Russia and in the United States. Indeed, it had its...

Once restricted to Europe and America, nowadays, populism is spreading globally and becoming an undeniable reality almost all over the world. Nowadays, in many of its seven modalities, populism is migrating from the margins to the center of the political system because many populist leaders and parties have become incumbent or, at least, play an im...

Rapoport posited that the world is confronting the fourth wave of global terrorism. The so-called religious terrorism poses a threat to the Western since it leads to an increasing lack of confidence in the institutions. The battle against terrorism is a fight for the survival of “Western Civilization” and the core values underpinning the 1948 Unive...

The European Union, the highest level of regional integration, is facing a problematic situation due to the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, this is a longstanding problem. From an organization based on the common economic interest of six countries, it has evolved into a political community gathering an increasing number of countries and nati...

Margaret Canovan states that populism accompanies democracy as a shadow, but populism does not emerge only in democratic countries. It also appears in populist totalitarian and authoritarian regimes that control civil society through censorship, misinformation and fake news inside their countries while, at the same time, they try to increase their...

In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and this act represents a turning point in the world order because it was a step toward the expansionism of Putin’s Eurasian Order to challenge the hegemony of the Liberal Order ruled by the United States of America. The so-called special military operation aims not only to force Ukraine to reject any approa...

Centuries ago, Machiavelli wrote his most famous book, The Prince, and offered it to Lourenço de Medici, hoping that it would be useful to persuade him to accept the challenge of unifying Italy and becoming a new prince. In the second decade of the twentieth century, Gramsci, arrested in the fascist prison, refused the image of a man as new prince,...

Centuries ago, Machiavelli wrote his most book, The Prince, and offered it to Lourenço de Medici, hoping that it would be useful to persuade him to accept the challenge of unifying Italy and becoming a new prince. In the second decade of the twentieth century, Gramsci, arrested in the fascist prison, refused the image of a man as new prince, and pr...

2022 was a turning point and a challenge to the previous world order. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is shaking the unipolar world and the West is worried about the emergence of this new order. This book discusses questions such as: • Which will be the main actors in world politics? • Does the decline of the United States of America and the West p...

For a long period, populist parties were labeled as anti-systematic because mainstream political forces considered that they refused to share the values of the political order within which they operate, and they were regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Thus, mainstream parties have built a cordon sanitaire between them and the populis...

When some of the leading Portuguese experts on European affairs gathered to discuss The Future of the European Union (EU) at a meeting at Lusófona University, the challenge seemed insurmountable. Due to the escalation of the conflict in Europe, the growing influence of populist movements, attacks on the rule of law, the inflationary spiral, and the...

Myths, Fallacies, and Realities of Populism: Towards a New Typology José Filipe Pinto Abstract Since the middle of the nineteenth century, when Herzen created the word in Tsarist Russia, populism remains as a sort of Cinderella’s shoe or Teumessian fox never destined to be caught. In fact, almost all scholars refuse and criticize the existing defin...

COVID-19’s pandemic represents a threat to humanity, as the new virus is affecting more than two hundred countries and the number of infected people and deaths is continuously increasing. This situation is not new in history because mankind has often faced devastating plagues. However, the current pandemic represents a new challenge because it occu...

During some decades, Europe was separated because of the iron curtain that Churchill has identified from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, and only after the fall of Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union many of the Eastern and Central European countries succeeded to recover their complete political independence. For thes...

Trump: Plutopopulism no longer accepts to bow! Donald Trump's refusal to accept defeat against Joe Biden was highly predictable. A pre-announced reaction during the election campaign, but a history that goes back to the struggle that brought him to power in 2016. In fact, Donald Trump achieved the Republican nomination and the subsequent victory ov...

Since its birth in Greece, democracy has evolved mainly with regard to the role people or citizens must play in the system. That evolution explains not only the various modalities of democracy but also the formation of political parties and their change over time. There is no democracy without the parties, but the parties are not the owners of the...

This is the front page of my fourteenth book It is a reflexion on the European Union, identifying its threats - like populism, terrorism, and the lack of a common idea about the role of the community - but also believing that the future os necessary and possible.

A União Europeia vive momentos difíceis. Sonhada para acabar definitivamente com a Europa sangrenta e erguer-se como farol da Humanidade enfrenta ameaças que colocam em risco a sua sobrevivência e o seu futuro. Neste livro o autor apresenta as ideias que presidiram à formação da Comunidade, analisa a sua evolução, perspetiva o seu futuro debruçando...

Populism is not a fad or an epiphenomenon. As the election results prove, populism is increasing almost all over the world, and populists rule the four most crowed democracies. Populist parties are gaining ground in the majority of the EU countries and in the two latest American presidential elections two populists-Donald Trump and Bolsonaro-achiev...

Terrorism is an ancient phenomenon, as it comes from classical Antiquity. However, its global version only started in the last decades of the 19th century, after the fall of Paris Commune and the murder of the Russian tzar, Alexander the second. Global terrorism is a phenomenon in which, according to Rapoport, we can consider four waves, with relig...

Uma temática que nos toca a todos numa conjuntura em que o mundo vive sob a ameaça do terrorismo global que invoca motivações religiosas. A mulher como personagem central. Uma realidade tridimensional: a terrorista, a vítima do terrorismo e a agente contra-terrorista. O que é o terrorismo religioso global? O que leva a mulher a tornar-se terrorista...

Terrorism, global terrorism, and global religious terrorism represent three different levels of the phenomenon. Despite the word «terrorism» being associated with a period of the French Revolution of 1789, terrorism is much older. However, global terrorism only dates back to almost 150 years, as it began with the anarchist wave (Rapoport, 2001) in...

In November 2016, against most expectations, even among some Republican Party’s members, and despite his lack of political experience, as he had never held any public office, Donald Trump won the presidential election in the USA through a campaign conducted against the political elite. During the campaign he presented himself as an outsider, as som...

What do we mean when we say populism? Is populism a threat for democracy or a contribution to improve a system whose performance falls below our expectations? This essay seeks to find an answer to these questions. Keeping the available literature in mind, it shall reflect on populism myths before presenting a new concept of populism. A concept base...

Populism is usually seen in an ambivalent perspective, as it is conceived both as a threat for the representative democracy and as an opportunity for the renewal of the democratic institutions. This essay intends to show the evolution of the populist phenomenon in Latin America, since its initial phase in the 30s of the 20th century until the neo-p...

The foundation of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) resulted of the action of the first colony to emancipate from the Portuguese Empire, Brazil, and in particular of its Ambassador José Aparecido de Oliveira, in spite of the existence of some antecedents of Portuguese responsibility, specially the two Congresses of the Communiti...

No Portugal de Abril, o sistema de governo ainda não encontrou solução para o relacionamento dos portugueses com o mais alto representante nacional. Um problema antigo decorrente da quebra de confiança. Daí o Regicídio. Por isso a instabilidade da Primeira República e o enclausuramento do Estado Novo. A Constituição de 1976, depois de sete revisões...

Em Portugal, passados 40 anos sobre o fim do Estado Novo, os partidos parecem apenas apostados numa espécie de captura do Poder, pois continuam a considerar a Assembleia da República como um feudo ao qual os independentes apenas têm acesso se eleitos em listas partidárias. Este livro analisa a realidade do sistema político pós-25 de Abril, numa con...

Ao longo da sua História, Portugal tem contraído empréstimos estrangeiros com tal frequência que o ato de pedir deixou de ser exceção, para acorrer a necessidades pontuais de carência, e tornou-se uma regra da vida nacional. Numa conjuntura em que a palavra crise se colou aos lábios, aos ouvidos e aos bolsos dos portugueses, este livro ajuda a medi...

Há cinco séculos, quando nicolau Maquiavel ofereceu O Príncipe a Lourenço de Médicis, não logrou, no imediato, os seus intentos. no entanto, essa obra seria a chave para a imortalidade do seu pensamento politico. na conjuntura atual, depois da implosão do Bloco de Leste e do fracasso do modelo unipolar estadunidense, a Humanidade continua à procura...

Há mais de meio século que a Base das Lajes representa um elemento indispensável para a compreensão das relações entre Portugal e os Estados Unidos. Este livro conta os principais — muitos até agora ignorados — episódios desse relacionamento e mostra de que forma Salazar usou a presença norte-americana como moeda de troca para o apoio à política co...

The foundation of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) in 1996 was seen as the institutionalization of Lusophony. However, after nearly fifteen years about this Act, the CPLP, despite several statutory changes, has not yet reached the visibility that seemed possible. This article seeks to identify the reasons for that situation and...

A Ilusitânia, a aglutinação possível das palavras «Ilusão» e «Lusitânia», traduz por inteiro a falta de autenticidade do Estado Novo, um regime que cultivou as aparências e aprisionou a liberdade, encarando-a como uma ameaça e nunca como um bem social primário. Nesta luta sem tréguas pela ocultação da realidade, a Censura representou um instrumento...

O ULTRAMAR SECRETO E CONFIDENCIAL assume-se como um estudo sobre a forma portuguesa de administrar um Império que sobreviveu quase três décadas ao disfuncionamento do sistema em que se inseria - o Euromundo. Verba volant, scripta manent - as palavras voam, os escritos ficam - talvez seja a frase apropriada para explicar o tipo de fontes que esta in...

This article tries to show the political evolution of the PALOP in the post-colonial period and to prove that, in spite of the great opening to the multiparty system, in the most part of these countries there isn't a culture of democracy. It also shows that, without good governance, hard work and peace, there won't be development.

Linha de Investigação de Africanologia Lusofonia UEICTS ULHT RESUMO O estudo das relações entre a Europa e a África mostra que o ponto de vista europeu prevaleceu sempre sobre o africano. Na ver-dade, durante o período colonial, esta relação nunca foi entre iguais e, no presente, a situação não é muito diferente. Este artigo tenta traçar a evolução...