Concluded Projets
- The State Building and State Failure Debate in International Relations: The Case of East Timor
- Selected Bibliographies
- Macao - A Revolving Platform between the PRC and Portuguese-speaking Africa
- Analysis and Monitoring of the Transition of the Special Administrative Region of Macao
- An Administration for Timor Lorosae
- Development Factors in the Pearl River Delta: Spatial Integration and Systemic Coherence
- Barometer of Business Relations between China and Portuguese-Countries: An Economic, Commercial and Cultural Approach
- Crisis and Migratory Policies: New Mobility Regimes Created by Golden Visa
Macao - A Revolving Platform between the PRC and Portuguese-speaking Africa
(2004-2009)
Coordination
Professor Narana Coissoró
Research team
- Narana Coissoró
- António Vasconcelos de Saldanha
- Heitor Romana
- Carlos Piteira
- Ana Cristina Alves
- Álvaro Nóbrega
- Andrea Valente
- André Silveira
- Dilma Esteves
- Íris de Brito
- Lúcia Tavares Martins
- Leila Leonor Monteiro de Andrade
Research group
Globalization and Asian Countries (2008-2012).
Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Reference: POCI/CPO/57122/2004
Goals
In an international context in which China is playing an increasingly important role in the global economy, it is of particular interest to study expansion of Chinese investment in Africa and, for Portugal in particular, the advance of the Portuguese language as a common denominator, via Macao, in China's relations with the Portuguese-speaking African countries.
- To analyse Macao's new strategic function and the extension of Chinese economic influence in these countries (amount and sectors of investment and development aid)
- To assess to what extent Portugal can play an important role as a facilitator and interlocutor in this new framework
- To train young researchers specialising in these areas, with FCT support.
Project results
- Publication of the book "Macau, O Elo China-PALOP´S" in Portuguese and English (Macau China Portuguese Speaking African Countries Link).
- Master's thesis “"Relações de Cooperação China-Africa: o Caso de Angola", by Dilma Esteves.
- International seminar China In The Developing World: South And Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 17 to 19 June 2008.
- Exchanges of Portuguese and Chinese researchers.