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Pedro Seabra

@pseabra.bsky.social
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Deputy Director at @cei-iscte.bsky.social • Assistant Professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon • Rising powers, international security, Africa & the Atlantic

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 14/09/2026
NEW SPECIAL BRIEFING | Ten Challenges for the UN in 2026-2027 Leaders gathering at #UNGA will find a United Nations in need of revival. A new Secretary-General cannot resolve the world’s crises overnight, but they should work to address immediate challenges. www.crisisgroup.org/sbr/global/s...
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s a wrap on PEC 2026! ✨ Thanks to all the attendees of this year’s #PEC, and an extra special thanks to all the organisers for making the event possible. We hope to see many of you next year in Ljubljana! 🇸🇮 #EISA #PEC2026 #Lisbon
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ready for #PEC2026? Swipe through and be prepard for tomorrow! 🙌 #EISA #PEC #Lisbon
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📅 De 1 a 4 de setembro, o Iscte recebe a EISA Pan-European Conference 2026. A app oficial da conferência já está disponível, onde poderá consultar o programa da conferência e aceder a informação útil sobre as sessões e a participação no evento. 📱 bit.ly/46joNGQ #EISAPEC2026 #EISA #CEI #Iscte
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📱 PEC 2026 attendees - the conference app is now available to download! ➡️ Find detailed instructions on how to use it here: bit.ly/46joNGQ 🔗 Download: bit.ly/46joNGQ
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IPPS-Iscte @ipps-iscte.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📊Portugal atingiu, pela primeira vez, a meta de 2% do PIB em Defesa, mas essa é apenas uma parte da discussão. #IPPS #Iscte #MelhoresPolíticasPúblicas
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🛡️ Já está disponível o relatório O Estado da Nação e as Políticas Públicas 2026: Governar com um Parlamento Fragmentado, coordenado pelo @ipps-iscte.bsky.social. O investigador @pseabra.bsky.social Seabra é autor do capítulo dedicado à Defesa. #CEI #Defesa #PolíticasPúblicas #Investigação
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Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📢 CEI-Iscte is accepting expressions of interest for the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships Applications must align with CEI's research groups. 🗓️ Deadline: July 19, 2026 🔗 cei.iscte-iul.pt/en/2026/05/m... #CEI #MSCA #postdoc #MarieCurie
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships - CEI-IUL
The Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) invites Expressions of Interest from researchers wishing to apply for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📢 O CEI-Iscte recebe manifestações de interesse para as Bolsas Marie Skłodowska-Curie 2026 As candidaturas deverão enquadrar-se nos grupos de investigação do CEI. 🗓️ Deadline: 19 julho 2026 🔗 cei.iscte-iul.pt/2026/05/bols... #CEI #MSCA #postdoc #MarieCurie
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Bolsas de Pós-Doutoramento Marie Skłodowska-Curie - CEI-Iscte
O Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-Iscte) convida os investigadores/as interessados a manifestarem o seu interesse em candidatar-se às Bolsas de
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
✉️ Check your inboxes! Decision emails for #EISAPEC26 were sent yesterday, and registration for participants is now open. 🗓️ Register by: 29 April 🔗 Guidelines: buff.ly/W78yOvD
1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University of Lisbon, Portugal.
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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🚨 Call for experts The Institute is building a pool of experts on global security threats for its EU-funded project SCOPE. Diverse profiles wanted, from counterterrorism & CBRN to critical infrastructure & climate security. 🔗 More info: ow.ly/a89A50YBPmJ
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🗓️ Abstract acceptance and registration for EISA PEC 26 have been postponed to Wednesday, 1 April 2026. 💻 We have received a record number of submissions and are working to ensure that as many colleagues as possible can be accommodated in the programme.
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🎙️ O investigador Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social esteve na RFI a analisar o “momento agudo de tensões” que atravessa a Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, na sequência do alegado golpe de Estado na Guiné-Bissau. Oiça aqui 👇 rfi.fr/pt/programas... #CEInosmedia #CPLP #lusofonia
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Chatham House Africa @africaprog.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🎙️| @chathamhouse.org's Carlos Lopes reflects on the tests facing AU leadership and how Africa can navigate through changes in the global order on #AfricaAware ↓ Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/chathamhouse... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2c4C...
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Matt McDonald @mattuq.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Defence and climate change: An introduction
Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of security, including by states and by traditional providers of national security within states: Defence and the military. This article introd...
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📚 Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa (Iscte | Academia Militar) Formação doutoral em História, Segurança e Defesa, com seminários no 1.º ano, ciclo de conferências e regime pós-laboral. 📌 2.ª fase de candidaturas até 25 de fevereiro iscte-iul.pt/cursos/curso... #CEI #PhD
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 18/01/2026
Conflicts across Africa, such as in Sudan, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, remain unresolved as international attention and mediation efforts are stretched or focused elsewhere. bit.ly/4bwFXVi
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Africa in 2026: Global uncertainty demands regional leadership
Africa can no longer rely on intermittent international attention to safeguard peace, democracy and economic resilience.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
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The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
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Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Close out 2025 with a look at 10 key security trends in Africa, told through 23 graphics. These graphics tell a story of increasingly regionalized conflicts, seizures of power, external interventions, demographic pressures—and progress in economy and infrastructure.
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Ten African Security Trends from 2025 in Graphics
Africa experienced growing regionalization of conflicts, militant Islamist group offensives, military coups, and external actor rivalries.
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
📣The #EISAPEC26 will take place at Iscte from 1 to 4 September! The local host for this event is CEI-Iscte. The general call for papers is open! Find all the information about submissions 👇 eisa-net.org/pec-2026/ @europeanisa.bsky.social
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Já se encontram abertas as candidaturas para os Doutoramentos do Iscte. 📅 1.ª fase até 14 jan 2026 Explore os 4 programas geridos pelo CEI-Iscte e candidate-se. iscte-iul.pt/estudar/dout...
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📢 Candidaturas abertas! 2.ª edição do Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações Climáticas (org. CEI-Iscte e Instituto da Defesa Nacional). 💶 Propina: 200€ 🎓 30% desconto p/ estudantes, alumni e entidades públicas 📅 Até 9 jan 2026 🔗 Info: cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/11/curs...
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2ª Edição do Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações Climáticas - CEI-Iscte
O Instituto da Defesa Nacional (IDN) e o Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa organizam a 2ª edição do Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações ...
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📣 Abstract submission for #EISAPEC26 is now open! 🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026 🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz
1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
O CEI-Iscte está a aceitar manifestações de interesse para acolhimento na 8.ª edição do concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual (FCT). 📅 Prazo para manifestações: 22/12/2025 🔗 cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/12/aber...
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Abertura do Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual – 8.ª Edição - CEI-Iscte
Candidaturas com o CEI-Iscte como instituição de acolhimento O Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Iscte (CEI-Iscte) informa que está a aceitar manifestações de interesse para acolhimento instituciona...
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Egmont Institute @egmontinstitute.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social & Sofie Rose @egmontinstitute.bsky.social "From the Donbas to Africa: How Returning Fighters Could Fuel a New Mercenary Wave" #RussiaUkraineWar #DDR #SecurityPolicy #Mercenaries #PMC #WagnerGroup #AfricaSecurity 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/4u26f84k
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
O investigador @pseabra.bsky.social esteve no programa Causa e Efeito da RTP, analisando as recentes cimeiras do G20 na África do Sul e UE–União Africana em Angola 🌍 👉 rtp.pt/play/p14377/... #ceinosmedia
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Causa e Efeito
Cimeira do G20 e Cimeira da UE-UA - Na última semana, o continente africano recebeu dois importantes encontros de líderes internacionais. A cimeira
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣 Entre Continentes: Repensar as Relações UE-África 🗓 4 dezembro | 18h | Auditório 306, Edifício 4, Iscte Com intervenção de Rita Laranjinha (MNE) e mesa-redonda com António Raimundo, Luís Mah, Carina Franco e Ana Vanessa Veiga. Moderação: @pseabra.bsky.social Entrada livre. #UEAfrica
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ECFR Africa @ecfrafrica.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
‼️📢 New @ecfr.eu brief Our programme director, Alex Vines wrote a piece on #Angola, host of the current AU-EU Summit. The country is pursuing a strategy of purposeful non-alignment and is becoming an increasingly important “middle power” in the world. 📑🌍👇
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Middle power dreaming: The geopolitics of Angola’s emergence | ECFR
Angola is increasingly active in the world. Here is how Europeans can cooperate with this rising middle power.
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Maddalena Procopio @madprocopio.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My new commentary ahead of the #AUEUSummit 🌍𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐚 is a 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞's global relevance. Europe should integrate projects and scale on the minerals value chain, rebalance relations with the US and engage new players like the UAE. 👉https://bit.ly/4p2x9dJ @ecfr.eu @ecfrafrica.bsky.social
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Europe, Angola and the UAE: Navigating competition on Africa’s Atlantic coast
Angola’s close cooperation with the UAE demonstrates Africa’s diversification of external partners. Europe needs to overcome internal disunity, temper its reliance on the US and engage with emerging…
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Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🌿Após o sucesso da I edição, o @cei-iscte.bsky.social e o Instituto da Defesa Nacional abrem inscrições para o II Curso de Especialização em Segurança, Defesa e Alterações Climáticas, de janeiro a março de 2026! Programa de topo, inscrições até 9 de janeiro aqui 👉https://shorturl.at/k87Lz Mais info👇
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Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Portugal na COP30: arrumar a casa cumprindo a Lei de Bases do Clima
Portugal, que se quer afirmar como exemplo de ambição climática, não deveria chegar a Belém com a casa desarrumada, com falhas de credibilidade para pedir aos outros aquilo que se comprometeu a fazer.
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Megatrends Afrika @megatrends-afrika.de · 11/11/2025
25 Years of Partnership between the #AU and #EU: How can we strengthen peace and security? @julianbergmann.bsky.social calls for closer cooperation in conflict prevention, peace mediation, and cyber resilience ahead of the #AUEU25 summit. 🔍 Read more in his spotlight: t1p.de/f0bsl
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Assessing 25 Years of Partnership between Africa and Europe: Closer Cooperation in Peace and Security
At the seventh AU-EU summit, the focus in the area of peace and security should be on crisis prevention and mediation, cybersecurity, the...
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Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Ricardo Soares de Oliveira: “As elites angolanas não confiam no futuro do país”
As estratégias de diversificação económica não foram bem-sucedidas e “um dia destes” em Angola “não haverá dinheiro para alimentar as massas críticas do regime”, que estão “alienadas” e “zangadas”.
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📣 Reminder: make sure to submit your workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 and section proposals for #EISAPEC26 soon! ✅ PEC section chair deadline: 17 November 2025 ✅ EWIS workshop proposal deadline: 24 November 2025
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Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
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U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence
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Megatrends Afrika @megatrends-afrika.de · 08/10/2025
📢 New study alert! Leverage and Limits: What African Actors Make of the New #Multipolarity explores how #Africa navigates a new world order. 18 authors, 8 chapters, and 1 deep dive into security, democracy, trade, infrastructure, minerals, digital policy and urban development. 🧵
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Richard Gowan @richardgowan1.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New from me @wpr.bsky.social on UN Day. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/un-day-guter...
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Once Again, the U.N. Will Have to Adapt to Survive
The U.N. will have to tap into its ability to shape-shift, which has been key to its resilience for the past 80 years.
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ECFR Africa @ecfrafrica.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
📢 Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence - check out our policy advice. 🖥️⛔ @ecfr.eu 1️⃣ Follow Africa's way 2️⃣ Develop a compelling narrative 3️⃣ Boost funding for independent media More here 👉 buff.ly/y6VuG2a
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CEI-Iscte @cei-iscte.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📢 Amanhã decorre a abertura do Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa. A oradora convidada é Raquel Beleza da Silva (investigadora CEI-Iscte) com a comunicação "Narrativa, Memória e Resistência: Repensando a segurança em tempos de violência do Estado." A entrada é livre 👇
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Review of International Studies #freetoread articles for the UN's 80th anniversary! 🎉 Exploring all aspects of the UN from its creation to it's failures to measure up to its ideals and values 📚 Read here: ow.ly/P2FJ50X7NPZ Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR Jonas Tallberg
Cover image for Review of International Studies detailing: 
RIS Review of International Studies 
80 years of the UN with the RIS logo.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 03/10/2025
A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic. Read more ⤵️
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Two Cables and the Hidden Subsea Battle Between US and China
A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/09/2025
“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
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A Rogue Nation on the High Seas
Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026! ⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R 🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025
1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. #EISAPEC26PEC 2026 Local hosts and programme chairs. 1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Giulia Daniele, Local Host. Ana Mónica Fonseca, Local Host. Elizaveta Gaufman, Programme Chair. Nizar Messari, Programme Chair.
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
After Ukraine, Moscow may turn its attention south. Africa Corps is already paving the way.
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Russia Is Shrewdly Playing the Long Game in Africa
What if Moscow’s most dangerous moves right now aren’t in Europe, but along the Gulf of Guinea? With its resources sunk deep into Ukraine, the Russian
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Egmont Institute @egmontinstitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @ninawilen.bsky.social @egmontinstitute.bsky.social “The Cost of Forgetting Africa in Security Strategy” #Africa #Security #Geopolitics #EUdefence 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 tinyurl.com/mr226je2
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Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org · 15/09/2025
The UN80 Initiative, a plan to restructure the United Nations, aims to make it more agile in responding to global challenges—but its proposed budget cuts and agency consolidations have drawn scrutiny. Here’s a rundown ⬇️
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The UN80 Initiative: What to Know About the United Nations’ Reform Plan
As the UN General Assembly convenes for its eightieth session, one major topic of debate is the secretary-general’s internal reform plan, which proposes significant budget cuts and agency consolidati…
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
According to the new War.gov site, we have a lot more military bases in China and Russia than I realized. www.war.gov/About/
World map supposedly showing dots where the US has 4,600 military installations in over 160 countries, but dots seem widely misplaced and include all over Siberia and China.
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Pedro Seabra @pseabra.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
📢 🌍 It's official: following Bologna’s turn last week, the next 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations from @europeanisa.bsky.social will be taking place in Lisbon, between 1 and 4 September 2026, with @cei-iscte.bsky.social as the local organizer! Start sharpening those abstracts!
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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
✈️ Russia's charm offensive in Africa Africa has become one of the most visited regions by Putin & Lavrov since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, alongside the Middle East & South Asia. More in #UnpowerRussia: ow.ly/MgPL50VWxzx
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defenceWeb @defenceweb.co.za · 28/08/2025
Renewed insurgent activity in the Palma district of Mozambique during the first two weeks of August has forced subcontractors working for TotalEnergies in the region to suspend some activities. www.defenceweb.co.za/land/land-la...
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Attacks by Islamic State-backed insurgents stall TotalEnergies subcontractors in Palma - defenceWeb
Renewed insurgent activity in the Palma district of Mozambique during the first two weeks of August has forced subcontractors working for TotalEnergies in the
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