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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nice to get the first copy of the Italian version of the book I've edited, "An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America" (London, Routledge, 2022), just published in Milan by Mimesis Press.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Foi um prazer participar neste debate organizado pela FIBE, sobre a Governabilidade em Portugal e no Brasil, hoje, na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa.

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FIBE DEBATE: O Futuro da Governabilidade

YouTube video by Fórum de Integração Brasil Europa – FIBE

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right, by Luca Manucci, is out and with free download in the next two weeks. Series "The History and Politics of Fascism". Cambridge University Press.

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The Fascist Zeitgeist

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Fascist Zeitgeist

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Public presentation of the study "Who Governs Portugal? Ministerial recruitment in a comparative perspective" I've co-edited with Marcelo Camerlo. A version in English will be published next year.

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Portugal lidera em número de ministros, peritos e especialistas

Portugal lidera a lista europeia no número de ministros, peritos e especialistas ao longo dos últimos 50 anos de democracia.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today we begin presenting this study on the ministerial elite of Portuguese democracy, a project supported by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, developed at the ICS-University of Lisbon and coordinated by the political scientist Marcelo Camerlo (ISCTE-IUL) and myself.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A new and important book on the rise of a radical right wave in Latin America. As I write in the foreword: " this book identifies the common thread of Latin America conservatism: a belief in organic social hierarchies, traditional values (often religious), and a skepticism of social engineering."

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Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far Right

Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far Right is a comparative study that focuses on contemporary conservatism in Latin America and its historical development, seeking to identify and anal...

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Je n'ai pas pu assister au colloque à l'Université de Lausanne, mais j'ai tout de même réussi à contribuer à l'ouvrage.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Free for the next two weeks! "The year 2024 marked a century since socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti's assassination. Widely commemorated in Italy, he's often remembered within a national narrative of antifascist resistance. But how was this narrative built and how has the far right responded?"

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The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Profondément attristé par la nouvelle du décès soudain de Didier Musiedlak, Prof. émerite à L'université Paris X-Nanterre, italianiste français et auteur d'ouvrages de référence sur le fascisme, le corporatisme et les élites politiques. Il a participé à plusieurs de mes projets, et réciproquement.

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Lo stato fascista e la sua classe politica 1922-1943

Lo stato fascista e la sua classe politica 1922-1943 : Musiedlak, Didier, De Ritis, A.: Amazon.it: Books

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

On Saturday 20, in Lisbon, Goffredo Adinolfi and I had the pleasure of presenting our edited volume Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule: War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes at the Eighth Convention of COMFAS, discussed by Angel Alcalde from the the University of Melbourne.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Introducing Janis Mimura, from Stonybrook University, at the COMFAS Convention, University of Lisbon, the she presented a plenary lecture on the "Fascist Origins of Axis".

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania, Keynote lecture, introduced by Mario Sznajder, Emeritus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, COMFAS Convention, ICS-University of Lisbon.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I thank my colleagues and friends who organized this tribute to my work as a researcher and professor in the context of the COMFAS Convention at ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa yesterday.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Discussion of my book, The Fascist Zenith, with comments by Janis Mimura, from the State University of New York, at the COMFAS Convention in Lisbon, yesterday.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Coming soon at the Series "The History and Politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press, editors of the series, Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.

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The Myth of Rebirth in Fascist Ideology

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Myth of Rebirth in Fascist Ideology

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Stephen Sawyer, from the American University Paris, today at LusoGlobe Annual Event on Global Challenges, Lusófona University-Campus of Lisbon. I strongly recommend his book, Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880, The University of Chicago Press, 2018

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Octavio Amorim-Netto, from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, giving the opening Lecture "Beyond the Civil-Military Divide: Patterns of National Defense Leadership Selection Around the World", today at LusoGlobe Annual Event on Global Challenges, Lusófona University-Campus of Lisbon.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you are in Lisbon next week, participating in the Eighth Convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Coming soon: Luca Manucci, The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right; Series "The History and Politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press, editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.

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The Fascist Zeitgeist

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Fascist Zeitgeist

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

LASA-Paris, this time with Philippe Schmitter (Emeritus EUI-Florence), Andrés Malamud (ICS-University of Lisbon), Gerardo Munck (University of Southern California) and Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida (USP-Brazil).

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On the occasion of the awarding of the LASA "Guillermo O'Donnell Democracy Award" to Philippe Schmitter, with Terry Karl (Stanford University); Andrés Malamud (ICS-Ulisboa) and Enrique Peruzzotti (Torquato Di Tella University).

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Panel "Antifascism: National and Transnational Frameworks", at Lasa-Latin American studies Association, in Paris, with Jorge A. Nallim, University of Manitoba; Sebastian Rivera, El Colegio Mexiquense, and Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas, El Paso.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

LASA-Latin American Studies Association, Paris. An unexpected encounter. Ronald Chilcote was already a veteran Marxist scholar of Brazilian and Portuguese politics, and African liberation movements, when I met him in the USA. He began in 1967 with the book Portuguese Africa. A long academic life...

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

International Congress of the Latin America Studies Association (LASA), Paris. Replacing the Official Reception with an excellent gastronomic experience.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

João Abel Manta, the greatest cartoonist of the Portuguese democratization, has died. When I published my first academic book in English on Salazar's "Estado Novo" I asked him one of his caricatures for the cover. The publisher's designer converted the caricature of the Dictator into a negative.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Seminar-book presentation by Odilon Caldeira Neto, from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, on the Radical Right in Brazil, at the ICS - Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Survey on the attitudes towards democracy in Portugal. in a nutshell: satisfied with April 25th, dissatisfied its functioning today. The themes of dissatisfaction are classic, notably perception of corruption, but the fear of "party extremism" is new and interesting. Report bellow.

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Sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados»

A sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados» foi desenvolvida por uma equipa do CESOP – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, coordenada por João António e Antóni...

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My dear friend Diogo Ramada Curto passed away this Saturday. An excellent historical sociologist, he held for eight years the Vasco da Gama Chair in the History of European Expansion at the European University Institute, Florence. He was director of the National Library of Portugal since 2024.

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Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries

Amazon.com: Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries eBook : Curto, Diogo Ramada: Kindle Store

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Competitive authoritarian regimes embedded in a transnational democratic community like the EU have greater difficulty in consolidating full autocracies, and it may happen that, as General Franco said before he died, Orban's political system is "tied up and well tied up" and yet it unravels. But...

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Coffee wiith some of the participants in the Workshop "BUILDING AUTHORITARIAN EMPIRES: WAR AND AXIS RULE ACROSS EUROPE AND ASIA", CEU, Vienna, last week: Jeremy Taylor, University of Notingham, Constantin Iordachi, CEU, Daniel Hedinger, University of Leipzig, Enriketa Papa, University of Tirana.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Opening Lecture, Workshop "BUILDING AUTHORITARIAN EMPIRES: WAR AND AXIS RULE ACROSS EUROPE AND ASIA", Central European University, Vienna, Co-organized with Constantin Iordachi.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Celebrating 50 years of the Portuguese democratic constitution. It is aging well, despite threats from the populist radical right.

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