International meetings in political studies (Est. 1993): Confronting the authoritarian challenge

Abstract

30th Annual Edition of the Estoril Political Forum | 27-29 June 2022 | This book brings together most of the papers presented at the 30th edition of the International Annual Meetings in Political Studies (now called Estoril Political Forum), which started in 1993, in Arrábida. This 30th edition took place on June 27-29, 2022, at the Palácio Estoril Hotel – the hotel of the Anglo-American allies during World War II. The general title was Confronting the Authoritarian Challenge. We were fewer than 20 participants in Arrábida in 1993. In June 2022, at the Palácio Estoril Hotel, our 30th edition, we have had 749 registered participants. How did this happen? Very simply, in my view, by the excitement of ideas. We came together in 1993 because we shared an attachment to, and a curiosity about, some ideas that were not vulgar. And our meetings have grown because more and more people have been attracted by these ideas. The same ideas have been the source of the launch of our Institute for Political Studies (IEP) at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in 1996: we had 40 students at the MA program that we launched in 1996. We now have more than 400 students within our BA, MA and PhD programmes.