Maria do Céu Pinto Arena é Professora Associada com Agregação do Departamento de Ciência Política da Universidade do Minho. As suas áreas de especialização são Estudos do Médio Oriente e Islâmicos e Organizações Internacionais, com foco nas Nações Unidas (ONU) e atividades de manutenção de paz em geral, incluindo da ONU e outras organizações regionais.
Maria do Céu é doutorada pelo Centro de Estudos do Oriente Médio e Islâmicos, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Durham, Reino Unido, 1997.
Maria do Céu Pinto Arena é autora das seguintes publicações em livros e revistas científicas (entre outros): “Consequences of Third-Generation Peacekeeping for the United Nations”, em F. Antonelli et al. (eds), Il porto del disincato. Scritti em onore di Maria Luísa Maniscalco (Franco Angeli: Milão, 2016); “Portugal: An Instrumental Approach to Peace Support Operations”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2014; “A Small State’s Search for Relevance: Peace Missions as Foreign Policy”, International Peacekeeping, 2014; As Nações Unidas e os desafios da governação global (Lisboa: Letras Itinerantes, 2014); As Nações Unidas e a manutenção da paz, Coimbra, Almedina, 2006; O Islão na Europa (coord.), Lisboa, Prefácio, 2006; Islamist and Middle Eastern Terrorism: A Threat to Europe? (CeMISS / Rubbettino: Roma, 2002); Political Islam and the United States: A Study of U.S. Policy Towards the Islamist Movements in the Middle East (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1999); “Relations with North Africa: A New Priority in Portuguese Bilateral Foreign Policy?”, Mediterranean Politics, 2016; “Portugal: An Evaluation of the Jihadist Threat”, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2012; “Some U.S. Concerns Regarding Islamist and Middle Eastern Terrorism”, Terrorism and Political Violence, 1999.
Organizações políticas internacionais: os desafios da cooperação internacional: Breve estudo sobre dez organizações internacionais
Publication date: 2023
Type of publication: Book
Portugal’s Challenging Relationship with China under Tense US/EU-China Relations
The International Spectator
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
Narratives modes and foreign policy change: the debate on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Journal Article
A contribuição da governance transitória da ONU nas sociedades pós-conflito
Resolução de Conflitos – Estudos de Casos
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Glocal Jihad: An Analysis of Jihadism in Iberia
Critical Perspectives from Africa and Europe
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Book Chapter
As missões de peacebuilding da ONU
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Pode a crise da COVID-19 acelerar a revisão da ordem global atual? A luta pela liderança do sistema internacional no séc. XXI
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Book Chapter
‘Italy’s involvement in PSO: between self-interest and the logic of appropriateness’
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Publication date: 2019
Type of publication: Journal Article
As Nações Unidas: a sociedade internacional e os desafios da governança global
Uminho Editora
Publication date: 2019
Type of publication: Book
A reconfiguração dos equilíbrios de poder no Médio Oriente
Estudos de Relações Internacionais
Publication date: 2019
Type of publication: Book Chapter
“Glocal Jihad”
Exporting Jihad: Critical Perspectives from the ‘Periphery’
Publication date: 2018
Type of publication: Book Chapter
“The Portuguese Foreign Fighters Phenomenon”
Journal of Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Publication date: 2018
Type of publication: Journal Article
Islamic Terrorism in the West and International Migrations: The ‘Far’ or ‘Near’ Enemy Within? What Is the Evidence
European University Institute
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Working Paper
Devising New European Policies To Face The Arab Spring (coord./org.)
Letras Itinerantes
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Book
The Rationale of Small and Medium-Sized States for Involvement in PSO: The Case of Italy and Portugal
European University Institute, EUI RSCAS; 2017/15, ISSN: 1028-3625, 2017.
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Working Paper
SPECIAL ISSUE: Os Estudos da Paz na Agenda de Investigação das Relações Internacionais
Perspectivas – Journal of Political Science
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Journal Issue
Editorial: Os Estudos da Paz: entre a reflexão estratégica e a tradição crítica”
Perspectivas – Journal of Political Science
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Journal Article
“Changing Foreign Policy”
RBPI – Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Journal Article
Revisiting Italian Mediterranean Policy in the 1950s: Internal or Externally-driven? The Interplay of External Pressures and Domestic Constraints
European University Institute
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Working Paper
“A Blurring of Roles”
Perspectivas – Portuguese Journal of Political Science an International Relations
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Journal Article
“Relations with North Africa”
Mediterranean Politics
Publication date: 2016
Type of publication: Journal Article
“Nacionalismo árabe e Pan-arabismo”
Janus 2015/2016
Publication date: 2015
Type of publication: Book Chapter
“A Small State’s Search for Relevance”
International Peacekeeping
Publication date: 2014
Type of publication: Journal Article
As Nações Unidas e os desafios da governação global
Letras Itinerantes
Publication date: 2014
Type of publication: Book
“Portugal”
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Publication date: 2014
Type of publication: Journal Article
Thinking Out of the Box: Devising New European Policies to Face the Arab Spring (coord.)
Publication date: 2014
Type of publication: Book
População e Sociedade n.º 11
CEPESE / Edições Afrontamento
Publication date: 2012
Type of publication: Book
Desafios da Democratização no Mundo Global
CEPESE / Edições Afrontamento
Publication date: 2012
Type of publication: Book
URL: https://www.cepese.pt/portal/pt/publicacoes/obras/desafios-da-democratizacao-no-mundo-global
The U.S. and Democratization in the Middle East?
Publication date: 2012
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Mapping the Obama administration’s response to the Arab Spring | A evolução da resposta da Administração Obama à Primavera Árabe
Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional
Publication date: 2012
Type of publication: Journal Article
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84873153934&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Portugal’s Intelligence Evolution in the Post-9/11 World
Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
Publication date: 2012
Type of publication: Journal Article
The Bush and Obama Administration seen by Islamists
Publication date: 2012
Type of publication: Book Chapter
O peacekeeping de terceira geração: uma ameaça à imparcialidade das missões e à credibilidade da ONU?
Publication date: 2011
Type of publication: Book Chapter
O papel das Nações Unidas na construção de uma nova ordem mundial
Publication date: 2011
Type of publication: Book