Dr Bruno César dos Santos Cardos Reis
Visiting Research Associate
Email bruno.reis@kcl.ac.uk
Address Department of History
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Research interests
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History and Theory of International Relations
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Comparative study of Colonialism and Decolonization
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Strategy and Unconventional Conflicts (guerrilha, terrorism, political violence)
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Religions and International Relations (Islam, Catholicism)
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Foreign and Defence Policy History and Analysis
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EU; Middle East; Africa; US
Bruno C Reis is currently working on Portuguese decolonization in a comparative perspective with Britain and France with a particular attention to the role of violence, religion, ideology and normative change in the process of decolonization, and its immediate aftermath in terms of post-colonial relations. The approach is interdisciplinary and uses both traditional historical analysis and more theoretical international relations models of causation.
Biography
Bruno C Reis was born in Tomar. He has a BA in History and MA in Contemporary History (Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa - 2000); an MA in Historical Studies (University of Cambridge - 2003). He has a PhD in War Studies (King's College London - 2008), and he is working on his dissertation to turn into a book during the next year under the title Big Armies and Small Wars: British, French and Portuguese Late Colonial Counterinsurgency Doctrine.
He has worked as assistant editor of the monthly magazine of the Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais (IEEI), were he was a senior researcher. He has been a Guest Reader at Universidade Nova da Lisboa; and a member of CEHR (Universidade Católica Portuguesa); as well as co-convenor of the methodology seminar of a Ph.D. in History jointly awarded by five Portuguese academic institutions (ICS-UL/ FL-UL/ISCTE-IUL/CEHR-UCP). He is now a post-doctoral researcher at ICS and a visiting research associate at King's College London.
Publications
Bruno C Reis has published numerous articles in Portuguese journals. His book Salazar e o Vaticano (Lisboa : ICS, 2007) in which the relationship between the Portuguese dictator Salazar (1928-1968) and the Vatican is analyzed from the point of view of international as well as colonial politics has been awarded the Víctor de Sá prize in contemporary history and the Aristides de Sousa Mendes prize in international relations.
Among his more recent publications in English are:
* [with Stelios Stavridis], «The EU and the Mediterranean was Security ever Off the Agenda? (1945-2008)», in Understanding and Evaluating The European Union... (Nicosia : Nicosia UP, 2009), pp.233-268.
* «Portugal as a Medium-Size Member of the UE with an Imperial Past and Global Ambitions», in Nine Among Twenty-Seven: European Policy of Medium-Size EU Member Countries, Ch. Franck (ed.) (Wien : Diplomaticke Akademie, 2008), pp.73-88.
* «The Portuguese Answer to the European Question during the Estado Novo», South European Society and Politics, Vol. 12, N.º 4, (December 2007 ), pp.547-556.