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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alexandra Magnólia Dias

Citation names

  • Dias, Alexandra
  • Dias, Alexandra M.
  • Dias, Alexandra Magnólia
  • Dias, A.M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F215-B3B0-A33A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8798-0835
Researcher Id
AAG-6321-2021
Education
Degree Classification
2008/03/01 - 2009/05
Attended
 Nationalism and Islamism in the Horn of Africa (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in Nacionalismo e Islamismo no Corno de África: análise do papel de actores internacionais na reconciliação na Somália
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
2002/09/11 - 2008/02/03
Concluded
 International Relations (Doctor)
Major in Social Sciences
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
 passed with no corrections
1997/04/12 - 2001/01/27
Concluded
 Mestrado em Estudos Africanos (Mestrado)
Major in African Studies
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 Good with Distinction
1992/09/14 - 1996/09/11
Concluded
 Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura)
Major in Culturais e Políticas
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 14/20
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/03/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009/06/01 - 2014/06/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
2005/09/08 - 2006/01/07 Assistant (University Teacher) London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
The London School of Economics and Political Science Department of International Relations, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2010/01 - 2013/06 Monitorização de Conflitos no Corno de África
PTDC/AFR/100460/2008
 Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
2008/03/01 - 2009/05/31 NACIONALISMO, ISLAMISMO E CONFLITOS NO CORNO DE ÁFRICA
SFRH/BPD/38486/2007
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2002/10/01 - 2006/09/30 POST-SETTLEMENT PEACE BUILDING AND INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT - CASE-STUDY: ETHIOPIA/ERITREA AND THE PROSPECTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SELF-SUSTAINING PEACE
SFRH/BD/8406/2002
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 The Effects of Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: Justice, Electricity and Transport Infrastructures
PTDC/CPO-CPO/2823/2021
10.54499/PTDC/CPO-CPO/2823/2021
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigacao e Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e Sociedade, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Portuguese Institute of International Relations - NOVA University Lisbon
UID/CPO/04627/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 3122 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/AFR/UI3122/2011
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01/02 - 2013/06/30 Identities and Borders in Africa
PTDC/AFR/098339/2008
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01/04 - 2013/06/03 Monitoring Conflicts in the Horn of Africa
PTDC/AFR/100460/2008
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005/07/01 - 2008/06/30 Social Dynamics in the Structuration of Politics in African Rural Contexts
POCI/AFR/59228/2004
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - 2020/01/30 FCT Support to the Research Unit
UIDB/04627/2020
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Alexandra Magnólia Dias. State and Societal Challenges in the Horn of Africa. 2013.
Book chapter
  1. Dias, Alexandra M.. "The Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: the interplay between domestic, regional and global dynamics in the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea". In Routledge Handbook on the Horn of Africa: The Horn of Africa as an Innovative Political Space, edited by Bach, Jean-Nicolas, 1-18. Routledge, 2022.
    Accepted
  2. Alexandra Magnolia Dias; Yared Debebe Yetena. "Anatomies of protest and the trajectories of the actors at play". In Ethiopia 2015-2018, edited by Sanches, {Edalina Rodrigues, 181-199. Routledge, 2022.
    10.4324/9781003177371-11
  3. Alexandra Magnolia Dias; Dias, Alexandra M.. "The Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula". In The interplay between domestic, regional, and global dynamics in the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea, edited by Jean-Nicolas Bach, 139-150. Routledge, 2022.
    Published • 10.4324/9780429426957-15
  4. Alexandra Magnolia Dias. "The Trajectory of Liberation". In Insurgencies from Portuguese Colonialism and Their Contribution to Pan-Africanism and Solidarism Within an Emerging African International Society, edited by Matteo Grilli; Frank Gerits, 183-211. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-52911-6_8
  5. Alexandra Magnolia Dias; Dias, Alexandra M.. "The Trajectory of the Liberation Insurgencies from Portuguese Colonialism and their Contribution to Pan-Africanism and Solidarism within an Emerging African Regional Society". In Visions of African Unity: New perspectives on the history of Pan-Africanism, OAU/AU and African regional unification projects, edited by Frank Gerits; Matteo Grilli; Gerits, Frank; Grilli, Matteo, 183-211. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
    Published
  6. Alexandra Magnolia Dias. "A evolução da sociedade internacional africana e as suas implicações para a política externa portuguesa (The evolution of Africa’s international society and its implications for Portugal Africa’s Foreign Policy)". In Política Externa Portuguesa e África: Tendências e Temas Contemporâneos. (Portugal Foreign Policy and Africa: Contemporary Trends and Issues, edited by Raimundo, António, 49-71. Lisbon, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, 2019.
    Published
  7. Dias, A.M.; Dorman, Sara Rich; Dias, Alexandra; Dorman, Sara. "We didnt fight for this: The pitfalls of state and nation building in Eritrea". In Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment, edited by L. de Vries; P. Englebert; M. Schomerus, 395-422. New York, United States: Palgrave, 2018.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-90206-7_14
  8. Alexandra Magnolia Dias. "Introduction". In L'originalité de la Corne de l'Afrique, edited by Patrick Ferras, 8-15. Observatoire de la Corne de l’Afrique, 2015.
  9. Alexandra Magnólia Dias. "Introduction: Understanding conflict and processes of state formation, reconfiguration and disintegration in the Horn of Africa". 2013.
  10. Alexandra Magnólia Dias. "International intervention and engagement in Somalia (2006-2013): yet another external state reconstruction project?". 2013.
  11. Alexandra Magnólia Dias. "Borderless World vs Borders as Walls: insights from a borderland group in northern Ethiopia". 2012.
  12. Alexandra Magnólia Dias. "Processo de Reconstrução do Estado, Dinâmicas e Actores Sociais na Estruturação de Espaços Políticos em Áreas Rurais (Trans/) Fronteiriças (Tigrai/Etiópia)". 2010.
Conference abstract
  1. Alexandra Magnolia Dias. "The Horn of Africa Pattern of Power". 2018.
  2. Alexandra Magnolia Dias. "Portuguese speaking Africa, "lusophony" and solidarism across African and global international societies". 2018.
Conference paper
  1. Dias, Alexandra M.. "Dias, A. M. (2021) Borders Are not Mere Lines on Maps: Insights from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Northern Ethiopia .". Paper presented in World Congress 2021 International Political Science Association. 26th World Congress ‘’New Nationalisms in an Open World., Online Virtual, 2021.
    Accepted
  2. Dias, Alexandra M.. "The Horn of Africa and The Arabian Peninsula: regional and national interests in a changing security complex". Paper presented in New Gulf Streams Middle East and Eastern Africa intersected, Lisbon, 2021.
    Accepted
  3. Dias, Alexandra M.. "Dias, A. M. (2021) The Horn of Africa in a changing international order. Implications for the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea.". Paper presented in Virtual workshop "Non-Western Actors in Africa: Interests, Conflicts and Agency”, Virtual online, 2021.
    Accepted
  4. Alexandra Magnolia Dias. "Human Security, Stability and Cooperation". 2017.
Journal article
  1. Alexandra Magnolia Dias; Carmen Amado Mendes. "A China e África em ascensão: Trajetórias mutuamente reforçadas ou novas dependências (Rising China and Africa: mutually reinforcing strategies or new dependencies?". R:I / Relações Internacionais 65 (2020): 5-12. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/7beb901c-355a-4085-8b04-ea1bcbf62c2a.
    Published • 10.23906/ri2020.65a01 • Editor
  2. Dias, Alexandra M.. "Dias, A. Radicalization processes in the Sahel and the trajectory of militant islamist movements in Mali.". Nação e Defesa. Special Issue: Islamist Movements in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel. 48 (2017): 82-94. https://comum.rcaap.pt/bitstream/10400.26/32256/5/DIAS_Alexandra_Magnolia_Radicalization%20processes%20in%20the%20Sahel_Nacao%20e%20Defesa_N_148_2017_p_82_94.pdf.
    Published
  3. Alexandra Magnolia Dias. "Ressurgência da autodeterminação nacional no Corno de África". Janus Anuário 17 (2015): 88-89. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/8f2d61d8-9e32-4a72-9175-9c897ed79b1b.
  4. Alexandra Magnólia Dias. "Desafios Transnacionais de Segurança em África no Século XXI". Cadernos de Estudos Africanos (2011): http://journals.openedition.org/cea/402.
  5. Alexandra Magnólia Dias. "The Conduct of an Inter-state War and Multiple Dimensions of Territory: 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia war". Cadernos de Estudos Africanos (2011): http://journals.openedition.org/cea/384.
    10.4000/cea.384
  6. Dias, Alexandra M.. "Dias, Alexandra Magnólia. "A trajectória de um movimento islamita na Somália (2006-2010)." The trajectory of an islamist movement in Somalia". Relações Internacionais 26 (2010): 83-93. http://www.ipri.pt/images/publicacoes/revista_ri/pdf/ri26/n26a08.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  7. Dias, Alexandra M.. "Battling terrorism in the horn of Africa". African Affairs (2007): https://publons.com/publon/40831904/.
    10.1093/AFRAF/ADM035
  8. Dias, Alexandra M.. "US foreign policy and the horn of Africa". African Affairs (2007): https://publons.com/publon/40831906/.
    10.4324/9781315548654
Journal issue
  1. Dias, Alexandra M.; Branco, Carlos M.,. "Dias, Alexandra Magnólia & Branco, Carlos Martins (eds.) ‘’ O Mar no espaço da CPLP ’’ The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries and the Sea". Revista Nação e Defesa ( N&D) do Instituto de Defesa Nacional 128 (2011): http://www.idn.gov.pt/index.php?mod=1321&cod=131.
    Published • Editor
Report
  1. Alexandra Magnolia Dias; Carmen Fonseca. 2015. Portugal e CPLP. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/12918989-ba3e-409a-9aab-d4cdcc5de7b6.
Activities

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2012/02/06 - 2014/05/31 Between September 2011 and June 2014. History Department. Invited Assistant Professor. One semester Course : Regional Geo-Political Frameworks (MSc in History and International Relations). History and International Relations (Mestrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2011/09/12 - 2014/05/31 Between September 2011 and June 2014. History Department. Invited Assistant Professor. Course Taught: International Politics (Bsc in Political Science) Licenc (Licenciatura) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/09/12 - 2014/05/30 Research Seminar in International Relations . 01739 PhD Programme in Political Science- Specialization International Realations ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal