PhD Raquel Barras Tejudo

Political Scientist and Professor

Short vita

Raquel Barras Tejudo, PhD in International Security and International Relations (IUGM); European Master's Degree on Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC); Political Scientist (UCM). Member of the UNISCI-UCM Research Group and the Centre for International Security (UFV). Specialist in the wider Mediterranean area, North Africa and the Sahel. She has worked as an advisor in the Congress of Deputies, in the Presidency of the Spanish Government, in the Department of National Security and, currently, in the Community of Madrid.

Contributions

Mediterranean Dialogue

10.02.2023 PhD Raquel Barras Tejudo

Portugal and the Maghreb: Two old acquaintances

Portugal's markedly Atlanticist vocation, together with its colonial past in Lusophone Africa , has led it to be perceived as an irrelevant actor in the North of the continent, specifically in the Maghreb countries, although it is true that the Portuguese overseas empire would not be understood without its first North African conquest: Ceuta, in 1415.

PhD Raquel Barras Tejudo

Short vita

Contributions

Portugal and the Maghreb: Two old acquaintances