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State, International Society, Human Action

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Law, Political Science, International Relations, and Political Economy belong to the same branch of science, which aims to study humans as beings socially framed by norms, rules, procedures, and standards of behavior. Historically, Political Philosophy and Law have coexisted intimately and for a long time. However, Economics, as classical Political Economy that studies human action, and International Relations, seen as the analysis of International Society and the behavior of its subjects, have only recently become autonomous from these other fields of knowledge. Today, many of the subjects they are dedicated to remain common or related, making thematic overlaps frequent, necessary, and useful, despite the unmistakable multidisciplinary nature and ontological and methodological specificity of each of these sciences.

 

The research line in State, International Society, Human Action falls within these domains of knowledge, viewing them from a humanistic perspective. It considers Law, Political Science, International Relations, and Economics as results of cooperative human action, which they inherently presuppose. Consequently, the work of researchers in this line at CEAD will be conducted within the domains of the city, the international order, and the market in its broadest sense (local, regional, or global). From this perspective, the topics to be explored may traverse, develop, and interconnect the Theory of the State, the History of Political Ideas, Society and International Law, Political Theory and History, Political and Constitutional Law, Political Economy, International Organizations, the European Union, Transnational Constitutionalism, Diplomacy, new concepts of State and Sovereignty, Globalization, European Citizenship and its associated new fundamental rights, changes in the International Order, among other themes that researchers at CEAD may be interested in pursuing at any given moment.

Researchers:

António Gameiro; António Tavares; Dilson Bernardo; Domingos Pereira Sousa; Fábio Veiga; Filipe Grilo; Frederico Faria; Henrique Varajidás; João Tavares; Lígia Carvalho Abreu; Luísa Bárrios; Manuel Serens; Maria do Rosário Anjos; Maria Inês Gameiro; Maria João Melo; Mário Nuno Neves; Maria Odete Oliveira; Mélanie M. Tiago; Nuno Miguel Magalhães; Paulo Duarte; Paulo Vicente; Pedro Cruz Silva; Rui Albuquerque; Rui Costa; Teresa Soares; Vasco Becker-Weinberg.

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