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Profile of the programme
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Geopolitics of Sub-Saharan Africa –“Multilateralism and Power Politics“– 8th edition - 22nd to 26th of June 2026
Duration: 20 hours of classes
Language: English
Mode: online (Zoom)
Certificate of participation: issued to students who attend 80% of the classes.
Credit: 6 ECTS awarded by FCSH/UBI (optional, upon the positive evaluation of an essay with 6000 words).
Frequency fee: 200 euros
Discount: 50% for students and staff of the institutions involved in the scientific committee and Portuguese public entities
Application deadline: 07/06/2026 |
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Key learning outcomes
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Programme
Monday – 22 June
14:00 – 16:00- Multilateralism and Power Politics
Rita Laranjinha (Portugal) - Special Envoy for Africa
16:00 – 18:00 - Great Power Competition in the Sahel
Norman Sempijja (Morocco)
Tuesday – 23 June
14:00 – 16:00 - Power Politics vs. Regional Conflict Resolution: The Horn of Africa Conflict Complex
Aleksi Ylönen (Portugal)
16:00 – 18:00
Africa+1 Summits: Between Multilateral Diplomacy and International Competition
Hasan Aydin (Turkey)
Wednesday – 24 June
14:00 – 16:00
The Horn of Africa–Red Sea Geopolitical Nexus: Regional Cooperation and Rivalry in a Changing World
Yonas Tariku (Ethiopia)
16:00 – 18:00
Mega Dams, Canals and Pipelines: Water as Part of Large Geopolitical Chess Games
Ana Elisa Cascão (Portugal)
Thursday – 25 June
14:00 – 16:00
The African Way of Waging War and Its Geopolitical Dimension
Igor Castellano da Silva (Brazil)
16:00 – 18:00
Africa in the Post-Liberal Order
Vasco Rato (Portugal)
Friday – 26 June
14:00 – 16:00
Africa’s Strategies of Development and International Insertion: The Hybridity of Agenda 2063
Guilherme Ziebell (Brazil)
16:00 – 18:00
Geopolitical Shifts and Regime Survival: Guinea-Bissau’s Foreign Policy in a Changing Global Order
Ricardo Sousa (Portugal) |
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Occupational profiles of graduates
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Organizers:
• Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Beira Interior (FCSH/UBI)
• OBSERVARE, Observatory of External Relations, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL)
• Centre of International Studies, Iscte – Lisbon University Institute (CEI-Iscte/IUL)
• Institute of National Defense (IDN), Ministry of Defense, Portugal.
Scientific committee:
• Alberto Neves Marinheiro (IDN), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Aleksi Ylönen (CEI-Iscte/IUL), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Mürsel Bayram - Department of African Studies at the Institute for Area Studies at the Social Sciences of Ankara University, Turkey;
• Fernando Jorge Cardoso – Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;
• Francisco Leandro - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, China;
• Isabel Ferreira Nunes (IDN), Lisbon, Portugal;
• Gilberto Oliveira – Institute of International Relations and Defense (IRID) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil;
• Ricardo Sousa (FCSH/UBI), Covilhã and OBSERVARE/UAL, Lisbon, Portugal;
• Yoannes Tekalign Beza, Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS)
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. |
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Learning facilities
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Online |