João Mourato Pinto graduated in International Relations from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and holds a master’s degree in International Relations – European Studies from both this university and Sciences Po Bordeaux (France). Currently, João Mourato Pinto is a professor of diplomacy and a Ph.D. candidate based at the University of Minho studying the global actorness of the European Union, especially towards Brazil and South America. He was a member of a research project on the EU’s Strategic Partnerships funded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT) and has worked at the European Research Council (European Commission). Additionally, he is a former President of the Erasmus Student Network (2017-2019), where he has worked to increase access to and the quality of higher education student exchanges worldwide. João Mourato Pinto is a member of the Research Center in Political Science at the University of Minho and collaborates with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). His main research interests are EU external action, Brazilian foreign policy, South American regionalism, and diplomacy.
(Forthcoming) EU Soft Power in Lusophone Africa amidst the Chinese Challenge: Delving into the Erasmus Programme in Angola and Cabo Verde
Publication date: 2024
Type of publication: Book Chapter
The Portuguese Science Diplomacy and EU’s External Activities with Lusophone Africa: Looking at the Co-building Approach
Publication date: 2023
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Portuguese Science Diplomacy and the Networks of Portuguese Professionals, Researchers and Graduate Students abroad: from The Escape to The Circulation of Brains
JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Issue
Global Diplomacy and International Society, written by Yolanda Kemp Spies
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
Soft Power in the European Union’s Strategic Partnership Diplomacy: The Erasmus Plus Programme
The European Union’s Strategic Partnerships
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Soft Power in the European Unions Strategic Partnership Diplomacy: The Erasmus Plus Programme
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Book Chapter
ESNsurvey 2018 Research Report: Mapping the Challenges and Enablers of Mobility for Students with Disabilities
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Report
ESNsurvey 2019 Research Report: Active Citizenship and Student Exchange in Light of the European Elections
Publication date: 2019
Type of publication: Report
#ErasmusUpgrade Manifesto – a vision for the Erasmus+ Programme
Erasmus Student Network
Publication date: 2018
Type of publication: Report
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order
Europe-Asia Studies
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Journal Article
The Fire Below. How the Caucasus Shaped Russia
Europe-Asia Studies
Publication date: 2015
Type of publication: Journal Article
Federal Dynamics: Continuity, Change and the Varieties of Federalism, by A. Benz and J. Broschek (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780199652990); xiv+394pp., £62.00 hb.
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
Publication date: 2015
Type of publication: Journal Article
The European Union and emerging powers in the 21st century: how Europe can shape a new global order
European Security
Publication date: 2013
Type of publication: Journal Article
In Search of the Federal Spirit: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives in Comparative Federalism, by M. Burgess (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780199606238); vi+347pp., £55.00 hb.
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
Publication date: 2013
Type of publication: Journal Article
A construção do sistema político federal russo : análise sociopolítica da relação entre actores
Publication date: 2011
Type of publication: Dissertation
AAC – The Faces of Power
Publication date: 2009
Type of publication: Journal Article
EU’s Eastern Partnership, the Russia-led Integration Initiatives in the post-Soviet Space, and the Options of the ‘States-in-Between’
IPRIS Viewpoints
Type of publication: Journal Article