Maria do Céu Pinto Arena is an Associate Professor with Habillitation of the Department of Political Science in School of Economics and Management at University of Minho. Her areas of expertise are Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and International Organizations, with a focus on the United Nations (UN) and peacekeeping activities in general, including that of the UN and other regional organizations.
She holds a Ph.D. from the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Durham, UK, 1997.
Maria do Céu Pinto Arena is the author of the following publications in books and journals (among others): “Consequences of Third-Generation Peacekeeping for the United Nations”, in F. Antonelli et al. (eds), Il porto del disincato. Scritti in onore di Maria Luisa Maniscalco (Franco Angeli: Milan, 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 (Lisbon: Letras Itinerantes, 2014); As Nações Unidas e a manutenção da paz, Coimbra, Almedina, 2006; O Islão na Europa (coord.), Lisbon, Prefácio, 2006; Islamist and Middle Eastern Terrorism: A Threat to Europe? (CeMISS/Rubbettino: Rome, 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
Multiculturality against radicalisation in Belgium and Portugal
International Review of Sociology
Publication date: 2023
Type of publication: Journal Article
Portugal’s Challenging Relationship with China under Tense US/EU-China Relations
The International Spectator
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
The Impact of Ethnic Goups on International Relations
Mapping Non-State Actors in International Relations
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Book Chapter
URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91463-9
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
Glocal Jihad: An Analysis of Jihadism in Iberia
Critical Perspectives from Africa and Europe
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Book Chapter
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
URL: https://observare.autonoma.pt/publicacoes/resolucao-de-conflitos-estudos-de-casos/
As missões de peacebuilding da ONU
Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Wladimir Brito
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Book Chapter
URL: https://www.almedina.net/estudos-em-homenagem-ao-professor-doutor-wladimir-brito-1606234295.html
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
A reconfiguração dos equilíbrios de poder no Médio Oriente
Estudos de Relações Internacionais
Publication date: 2019
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Italys 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
‘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
The Portuguese Foreign Fighters Phenomenon
Journal of Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Publication date: 2018
Type of publication: Journal Article
“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
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
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
Devising New European Policies To Face The Arab Spring (coord./org.)
Letras Itinerantes
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Book
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
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
“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
“Portugal”
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
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
Thinking Out of the Box: Devising New European Policies to Face the Arab Spring (coord.)
Publication date: 2014
Type of publication: Book
“A Small State’s Search for Relevance”
International Peacekeeping
Publication date: 2014
Type of publication: Journal Article
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
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
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