Sónia Sénica

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With a PhD in International Relations from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), Sónia is Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH and Assistant Professorat Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, where she is also associated researcher at Observare - Observatory of Foreign Relations. Academic coordinator for TEPSA Academy 2022, she coordinated a research project for the Luso-American Foundation for Development (2016), and participated in the courses "Diplomatic Protocol" of the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris (2008) and "Russia and the contemporary world" of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow (2003). Sónia holds a postgraduation in "Theory and Diplomatic Practice" from Lusíada University (2004). 

Research Fields:

Russian Federation.
Foreign Policy
International Policy.
International Relations Theory.
Cold War and Post-Cold War.

Recent Publications:

"Institute for Security Studies of the European Union", in Institutions, Bodies and Bodies of the European Union, Coord. Joana Covelo de Abreu and Liliana Reis, September 2020, Almedina.

"The Bear has taken the honey: Putin's Russia predictability", in Trends and Transformation in World Politics, Coord. by Ozgur Tufekci and Rahman Dag, Lexington Rowan (delivered to the coordination in March 2021).

"Latin Union", III volume of the Dictionary Multilateral Portugal, Coord. Nuno Severiano Teixeira & Alice Cunha, Portuguese Institute of International Relations, Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Luso-American Foundation for Development (delivered to the coordination in April 2021).