Clara Portela

The Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

 

Clara PORTELA, a Spanish national, joined the ESDP Democracy network in September 2003. She was based in the Centre for International Co-operation and Security (CICS) at the University of Bradford, UK, where she worked on the sanctions policy of the European Union, as well as on the development of ESDP.

Before joining the RTN network, Clara worked as a European Security Co-ordinator at the Berlin Information-center for Transatlantic Security (BITS). In this position, she edited the PENN (Project of European Nuclear Non-Proliferation) Newsletter. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the European Union (ISS-EU) in Paris and a teaching assistant at the Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University.

She holds an MA (Diplom) in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin (2000) and a BA (Vordiplom) in the same subject from the J.W.Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. Prior to graduating, Clara was an intern at the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations in New York and at the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) in Paris, as well as exchange student at the University of Ulster, UK.

Clara Portela is an Associate Expert at BITS and an Affiliated Member of the Cluj-Center for Policy Analysis. She is the author of various publications on European security issues, particularly ESDP, as well as international legal issues.

Clara is now employed as a researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute
Florence (Italy).

She can be reached at Clara.Portela@iue.it

Publications:

  • "The EU and the NPT: Testing the New European Nonproliferation Strategy", Disarmament Diplomacy no.78, July/August 2004

  • "The Role of the EU in the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: The Way to Thessaloniki and Beyond", PRIF Reports, No. 65, December 2003.

  • "Humanitarian Intervention and International Law", in: "The Future of Peace in the Twenty-First Century: Mitigating Discontents and Harmonizing Global Diversity", The Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Justice and Peace (ed.), Washington, D.C, 2003.

  • "CESDP under the Spanish Presidency of the EU", PENN (Project on European Nuclear Non-Proliferation) Newsletter 16, August 2002.

  • "Terrorism and the Law of the Use of Force", BITS Research Note 02.1, June 2002.

  • "Transcending MTCR", PENN Newsletter 15, November 2001.

  • "The EU's Anti-terrorist Reaction", PENN Newsletter 15, November 2001.

  • "CESDP's Countdown to Laeken", PENN Newsletter 15, November 2001.

  • "Addressing the CESDP'S Civilian-Military Mismatch", BITS Policy Note 01.3, June 2001.

  • "The European Commission's Concept of Conflict Prevention", PENN Newsletter 14, May 2001.

  • "Rethinking the US-British Strategy on Iraq", PENN Newsletter 14, May 2001.

  • "EU-Russia Relations: Problems and Opportunities", BITS Research Note 01.2, May 2001.

  • "Humanitarian Intervention, NATO and International Law", BITS Research Report 00.4, Dec. 2000.

  • "CEPSD on the Road to Nice", PENN Newsletter 12, October 2000

  • "Europe's Nuclear Dilemma", European Voice, 27 July - 4 August 2000.

 
 
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