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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 1d

With Martina Bitunjac (Potsdam), Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin), Federico Finchelstein (New York), Roger Griffin (Oxford), Irina Nastasă-Matei (Bucharest), Luisa Passerini (Florence), Antonio Costa Pinto (Lisbon), Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (Berlin), Jason Stanley (Toronto), Richard Wolin (New York).

Einstein Forum – Other People’s Fascisms?

Other People’s Fascisms?

www.einsteinforum.de

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting post, but not sure if Hungary will follow the path described by JOSEP COLOMER, after more than a decade of consolidated "competitive authoritarianism".

JOSEP COLOMER'S BLOG

Incumbent government parties lose elections Like all human organisms, political parties follow a life cycle: the initial core grows and deve...

jcolomer.blogspot.com

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 8d

Debating (and challenging) the concept of "Competitive authoritarian" as a regime type. Opening session of the MA in Politics, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 9d

The alliance between the center-right and the radical right on immigration policy is consolidating in Portugal. After the constitutional court's veto, another version has just been approved by Parliament, with the opposition of all left-wing parties.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 18d

The European Radical Right in the Age of Trump 2.0

Europe’s radical-right parties felt empowered by Trump’s return to the White House, but their ability to reshape politics is constrained by divisions and a lack of vision. Pro-EU political forces can ...

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 18d

Joining Canada, Australia, the UK, and France, the center-right Portuguese government recognized the State of Palestine.The populist radical right party expressed reservations, and the micro coalition partner CDS as well, although not activating the issue, since public opinion was largely in favor.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 20d

Universidade de Coimbra recebe congresso internacional “Mário Soares: Uma Vida entre Séculos”

Iniciativa académica de reflexão e debate sobre a figura de Mário Soares (1924-2017), no ano do centenário do seu nascimento, decorre na Faculdade de Economia da UC, a 9 e 10 de outubro

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 20d

Chairing the panel "The Radical Right in Brazil and Portugal", this morning, at the V ABRE Meeting, University of Salamanca, with Anthony Pereira (Tulane University) Francisco Martinho (USP, Brazil); João Gabriel Lima (ICS-ULisbon), where we met Elena Martinez Barahona, an old friend and Colleague.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 22d

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 23d

This afternoon in Washington DC, book launch of the latest book of the series "The Portuguese-speaking World" of Liverpool University Press.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 23d

André Ventura, leader of the Portuguese radical right party, with 23% of the votes in the recent legislative elections, will run for the presidency of the Republic. If he wins, Ventura could "presidentialize" Portuguese democracy, and pervert it from there with a supporting party, his Chega Party.

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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 26d

I wroite a short piece on @verfassungsblog.de on the challenges facing the French new Prime Minister. The institutions of the Fifth Republic have so far been very resilient in the face of continued crisis, but fatigue is starting to show.

Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 26d

France 🇫🇷 has a new Prime Minister.

Many see the task he is facing as impossible.

GIOVANNI CAPOCCIA (@gcapoccia.bsky.social) on the Fifth Republic and its constitutional identity under strain.

verfassungsblog.de/the-fifth-re...

Quote: “The polarization that accelerated after the 2022 elections and deepened following the 2024 dissolution could push the Fifth Republic toward an end – de facto, if not de jure.”

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 26d

An excellent summary of the debates on fascism and the contemporary radical right that we had in Rome earlier this year, at a conference organized by the George L. Mosse Center at the University of Wisconsin earlier this year.

60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited

The "60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited" conference marked the sixtieth anniversary of George L. Mosse's groundbreaking 1963 Stanford seminar by bringing together over 30 leading scholars from the Un...

www.hsozkult.de

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 27d

Falsificar o passado para “ganhar” o presente

A resolução ministerial sobre o 25 de Novembro tem muita coisa de inaceitável. Uma é ter-se entregue ao CDS, via ministro da Defesa, as comemorações.

www.publico.pt

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 27d

Delighted to publish the chapter "El “Estado Novo” salazarista y la difusión de modelos autoritarios en la América Latina de entreguerras" in this book published by the Press of the University Iberoamericana Puebla, in Mexico.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 27d

Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed

www.nytimes.com

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 27d

Bolsonaro convicted of attempted coup d'état in Brazil. For a history of the neofascist groupuscules and their relations with the new Brazilian radical right, see this short book from the series “The History and Politics of Fascism” of Cambridge University Press, published this year.

Neo-Fascism and the Far Right in Brazil

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Neo-Fascism and the Far Right in Brazil

www.cambridge.org

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 28d

Next week debating Bolsonarism in a panel at the V Meeting of the European Association of Brazilianists, University of Salamanca, with Francisco Martinho (University of S. Paulo), Anthony Pereira (Tulane University, US), and Gabriel Lima (University of Lisbon).

ABRE V - ABRE

V CONGRESSO ABRE Salamanca 2025 A Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (ABRE) convida para participar do seu V Congreso Internacional que se celebrará de 16 a 19 de setembro de 2025 no Centro de E...

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 28d

It was a pleasure to contribute with the chapter "The Double Face of Anti-Liberalism in the Era of Fascism: A Global Approach", to this book, based on an excellent conference organized by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, University of Amsterdam.

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 28d

Electoral politics was underestimated by historians of Italian fascism in the cycle of publications marking the "commemoration" of his coming to power in 1922. The recent study of Goffredo Adnolfi, is an excellent and fresh analysis of the subject.

The Rise of Mass Parties, Liberal Italy, and the Fascist Dawn (1919–1924)

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Rise of Mass Parties, Liberal Italy, and the Fascist Dawn (1919–1924)

www.cambridge.org

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 29d

Call for papers (in Portuguese) For a conference on Portuguese transition to democracy, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, November 25, 2025.

Seminário “O 25 de Novembro de 1975: 50 anos depois” - Comissão Comemorativa 50 Anos 25 Abril

No dia 25 de novembro de 2025, a Comissão Comemorativa 50 anos 25 de Abril promove, na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, um seminário dedicado à investigação e à reflexão crítica sobre este momento marcan...

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 29d

The next book of the series "The Portuguese-Speaking world" of Liverpool University Press, editors, Antonio Costa Pinto (university of Lisbon), Onésimo Almeida (Brown University) and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra).

The Contradictions of Science in Machado de Assis | Home

Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação is a Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Lusophone studies with an interest in nineteenth-century Brazil and Machado de Assis.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 29d

A Portuguese Government decree from last week says that the "first free and democratic elections in Portugal, by direct and universal suffrage" were held in 1976. A typo? The first democratic elections in Portugal were held one year before. We can diverge in memory politics but not on facts.

O Governo, as primeiras eleições livres e justas e um erro que deve ser corrigido

Há o risco de desligar as comemorações dos 50 anos do 25 de Novembro das celebrações dos 50 anos do 25 de Abril, criando uma narrativa fragmentada e inconsistente sobre o processo de democratização.

www.publico.pt

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