Isabel Camisão

Associate Professor with Habilitation (DHEEAA - FLUC)

subdir.isabelcamisao@fl.uc.pt; isabelc@fl.uc.pt

Isabel Camisão holds a Ph.D in Political Science and International Relations, MA in European Studies and BA in International Relations from the University of Minho. She is currently Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra where she teaches courses to the BA and to the Master in European Studies. She is Director of the Master in European Studies and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, in charge of the Acreditation, Projects and Research Centres’s portfolio. She is full member of the Research Center in Political Science (CICP) (ORCID: 0000-0003-4138-3231), founding member of the Section of European Studies of the Portuguese Political Science Association and member of its Board. Between 2012 and 2015 she held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Tecnhology to develop the research project “Timely Political Leadership in the EU” (SFRH/BPD/77342/2011). Her main areas of research are EU governance and EU institutions (particularly the role of the European Commission), leadership and international negotiation. She is the author of three books and several chapters on the EU, has coordinated three edited volumes on her main areas of research and has published articles in specialized journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Integration and the Journal of Contemporary European Research. 

Selected publications (from the last two years):

1. Camisão, Isabel and Peixinho, Ana Teresa (2025) "A compelling narrative to prompt unity: An analysis of the President of the Commission's Speeches on the Ukrainian war". British Journal of Politics and International Relations (forthcoming 2025).

2. Camisão, Isabel, Simão, Lícinia e Lopes, Dulce (eds.) (2025) A Construção Europeia: quarenta anos de reflexão em Coimbra. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra (forthcoming 2025).

3.  Vila Maior, Paulo, and Camisão, Isabel (2025) "Building up Legitimacy? Analysis of the European Central Bank narrative during the COVID-19 Crisis" Scientific Annals of Economics and Business (forthcoming 2025). 

4. Camisão, Isabel and Vila Maior, Paulo (2025) "A convincing narrative to control the crisis response? The role of the President of the European Commission during the COVID-19 pandemic". Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 63, No 3, pp. 821-838 (first published online  August 2024), pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13652 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/F7QC7HFUGIEIHVJ538MV?target=10.1111/jcms.13652)

5. Camisão, Isabel and Fernandes, Sandra (2025) “Portugal in the European Union”. In Portugal in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Nuno Monteiro, Patrícia Silva and Pedro Magalhães. London: Routledge.

6. Sebastião, Dina and Camisão, Isabel (2025) The Eurozone sovereign Debt Crisis and Geringonça: how have they impacted the Portuguese radical left Euroscepticism? Politique Européenne, No. 87, 2025, pp. 97-126.

7. Camisão, Isabel and Vila Maior, Paulo (2024) “Cooperation partners or systemic rivals? The EU-China relations in the light of a changing international environment”. In Palgrave Handbook on China-Europe-Africa Relations, eds. Francisco Leandro, Jorge Tavares da Silva, Yichao Li and Carlos Rodrigues. New York: Palgrave.

Research /interest areas:

Governance and Institutions of the EU.

Ciência Vitae: 0215-8E14-24CB

ORCID: 0000-0003-4138-3231