@acostapinto
Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
"The single biggest influence on The Sympathizer was António Lobo Antunes’ The Land at the End of the World" says Viet Thanh Nguyen. I was not aware of this influence because The Sympathizer is one of the best novels I've read in the last couple of years.
"António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83".
The North American base in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, has regained its strategic importance, being used in the current operation to attack Iran.The Portuguese government accepted this, even though it was within the limits of the agreement.
The Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes died today. He was by far the best contemporary portraitist of Portuguese society, its imperial past and decolonization, its dictatorship and democratization.
Conference on the "politics of the past" of the Portuguese populist radical right at the Convegno "Dopo le Dittature", University of Bologna in Buenos Aires, citing the late Leonardo Morlino and a book I've co-edited with him.
This week in Argentina for this conference at the Campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.
El cordón sanitario en las presidenciales no frena el auge de Chega, más fuerte que nunca en Portugal www.infolibre.es/1_20ba0c
Um amigo e grande ciêntísta político brasileiro da Universidade de S. Paulo.
O rescaldo da vitória sem espinhas do Portugal moderado visto por António Costa Pinto.
An interview on the rise of the populist radical right in Portugal.
Free access in the next two weeks! The five Ages of Antifascism, from Joseph Fronczak, Princeton University. A new book from the Series "The politics and history of fascism", Cambridge University Press. Series editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.
According to António Costa Pinto, “In the unlikely scenario that Ventura secured the presidency, there is little doubt that he would use it to do everything to give his party control of the government … and pose a serious threat to the institutional functioning of Portuguese democracy,”.
La dictadura de Primo de Rivera y su contexto internacional
Giaime Pala, Maximiliano Fuentes Codera, Marco Bresciani, David Cao Costoya, Giovanni C. Cattini, António Costa Pinto, Eduardo González Calleja, Matteo Pasetti, Josep Pich Mitjana, Joaquim Maria Puigvert i Solà, Saverio Scavo.
