Paulo Vila Maior
Assistant Professor with Habilitation (DHEEAA-FLUC)
Email: paulovilamaior@fl.uc.pt
Paulo Vila Maior, Assistant Professor with Habilitation in European Studies at the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) of the University of Coimbra.
He is Deputy Director of the Bachelor in European Studies and Erasmus Coordinator for the area of European Studies.
He earned the Habilitation in Economy at the University of Évora, holds a PhD in Contemporary European Studies (University of Sussex), a Master’s Degree in European Integration (Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra) and a First Degree in Law (University Portucalense). He teaches at the level of Under-graduation, Masters’ Degree, and Doctorate for 30 years.
Recently, he coordinated Module n.º 3 (International Governance: Multilateral Institutions, Norms, Regimes) within the research project “Interdisciplinary Training on EU Security, Resilience and Sustainability (EUSecure) – A Simulation Supported Massive Open Online Course (SimMOOC)” funded by the European Commission.
He published several books, book chapters and articles in academic journals, in English and Portuguese, on topics that cover his research preferences.
Recent publications:
- Camisão, Isabel and Paulo Vila Maior (2024). 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, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13652.
- Vila Maior, Paulo (2023). Portugal e o Conselho de Economia e Finanças. In Reinaldo Saraiva Hermenegildo e Alice Cunha (eds.), Portugal e as Presidências do Conselho da União Europeia, Porto: Fronteira do Caos, 117-141.
- Vila Maior, Paulo (2023). O regresso à anormalidade: da guerra na Ucrânia ao surto inflacionista, População e Sociedade, 39, 26-45.
- Vila Maior, Paulo (2023). European Integration and Populism(s) – Metamorphosis, or history sinking into oblivion? In Bruno F. Costa (ed.), European Identity and Citizenship: The Challenges of European Integration. Lisboa: Sílabo, 51-65.
- Camisão, Isabel and Paulo Vila Maior (2023). The EU and the Pandemic Crisis: From ‘Road to Nowhere’ to ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking for’. In António Portugal Duarte, Srdjan Redzepagic e Fátima Sol Murta (coord.), The European Integration Process: Crisis and Resilience in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 35-49.
- Vila Maior, Paulo and Isabel Camisão (2022). The Pandemic Crisis and the European Union: COVID-19 and Crisis’ Management. London: Routledge.
- Vila Maior, Paulo and Isabel Camisão (2021). Institutional Rebalancing in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In José Caetano, Isabel Vieira e António Caleiro (eds.), New Challenges for the Eurozone Governance: Joint Solutions for Common Threats? Cham: Springer, 285-302.
- Camisão, Isabel and Paulo Vila Maior (2020). Failure or success: assessing the European’s Commission new strategy to foster EU’s economic recovery, Journal of European Integration, 42(2), 195-211.
Research interests
Economic and Monetary Union; Crisis and reform of the Eurozone; pandemic crisis and the European Union; constitutionalisation of the European Union; theories of European integration; epistemology of Economics.
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Researcher ID: HNI-9974-2023
