Teresa Almeida Cravo

University of Coimbra | UC · Centre for Social Studies

This article examines the rise of cash transfer programs and their embrace, since the 1990s, as a central element in global public policy on economic and social development and poverty reduction. Focusing on the example of Mozambique, an early adopter of such programs, it analyses the relationship between international organizations, development ai...

In the past several decades, various actors have sought to promote peace in the periphery, their actions framed by the dominant logics of global interventionism. Amongst these, former colonial powers, such as Portugal, have intervened in spaces that were once under its colonial yoke and where long and complex processes of violence have occurred. Th...

Peacebuilding has become a guiding principle of international intervention in the periphery since its inclusion in the Agenda for Peace of the United Nations in 1992. The aim of creating the conditions for a self-sustaining peace in order to prevent a return to armed conflict is, however, far from easy or consensual. The conception of liberal peace...

A consolidação da paz tornou-se num princípio norteador do intervencionismo internacional na periferia desde a sua inclusão na Agenda para a Paz da Organização das Nações Unidas, em 1992. O objetivo de criação de condições para uma paz auto-sustentável de forma a prevenir um retorno ao conflito armado está, no entanto, longe de ser fácil ou consens...

The rule of law and security sector reform have become central to peacebuilding initiatives in the past decade and a half, accompanying a surge in international interventions in the periphery. Considered of critical importance to the re-establishment of order and the promotion of peace and development, these two areas of reform have gained importan...

An atypical case of decolonisation, East Timor’s road to self-determination lasted some twenty-five years, throughout which the country has maintained an unusually close relationship with its former colonial Power, Portugal. While under Indonesian occupation, this small East Asian country relied heavily on Portuguese support on the international st...

Definida como a nova prioridade da ONU em 1992, a consolidacao da paz procurou responder ao desafio de um numero crescente de guerras civis particularmente violentas e tornou-se, desde entao, numa das mais visiveis e exigentes areas de atuacao da organizacao. O empenho na promocao ativa da resolucao desses conflitos foi, no entanto, revelando grave...

Historically established as critical knowledge and thus an alternative to normal science in International Relations, Peace Studies came to be co-opted, in the 1990s, by the regulatory structures of the international system as a cornerstone of many of the options put into practice especially in post-war reconstruction processes. In this context, rec...

Portuguese Foreign Policy : Europeanism, Atlanticism or Both ? The downfall of the authoritarian regime in 1974 induced fundamental changes in the dynamics of Portuguese foreign policy. It was not simply a transition from authoritarianism to democracy, but also a major changeover from an Atlanticist orientation towards European integration. Previou...

Historically constituted as critical knowledge and, thus, as an alternative to normal science in International Relations, Peace Studies came to be coopted, in the 1990s, by the regulatory structures of the international system as the foundation for many of the options put into practice, especially in postwar reconstruction processes. In this contex...