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  1. The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races

    Article • Geopolitics, October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  2. China as a Threat and Balancing Behavior in the Realm of Emerging Technologies

    Article • Chinese Political Science Review, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alena Vieira

  3. Assessing the Changing Sino–Russian Relationship: A Longitudinal Analysis of Bilateral Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Period

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  4. Arms Sales as an Instrument of Russia’s Foreign Policy and the Shifting Security Dynamics of the Middle East

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alena Vieira

  5. Introducing the Arms Race in the Middle East in the Twenty First Century: A “Powder Keg” in the Digital Era?

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alena Vieira

  6. The Chinese Military-Civil Fusion Strategy: A State Action Theory Perspective

    Article • The International Spectator, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  7. Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment

    Article • International Affairs, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alena Vieira

  8. Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)

    Article • Journal of Chinese Political Science, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alena Vieira

  9. Persuading the Giant? Explaining Eastern Partnership States’ (Unexpected) Negotiation Success in Relations with the European Union

    Article • International Negotiation, May 2021, Brill

    Alena Vieira

  10. A Friend in Need? The Sino-Russian Relationship Under the Coronavirus Crisis in Twitter: a Russian Perspective

    Article • East Asia, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alena Vieira

  11. Iran’s strategic culture: the ‘revolutionary’ and ‘moderation’ narratives on the ballistic missile programme

    Article • Third World Quarterly, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  12. The European Union's ‘Potential We’ between Acceptance and Contestation: Assessing the Positioning of Six Eastern Partnership Countries*

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, September 2020, Wiley

    Alena Vieira

  13. European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)

    Article • JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation, November 2019, Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, EdiUal

    Alena Vieira

  14. Normative resistance to responsibility to protect in times of emerging multipolarity: the cases of Brazil and Russia

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, April 2018, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Alena Vieira

  15. Introduction: Competing conditionalities? Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus between the European Union and Russia

    Article • European Politics and Society, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  16. Armenia and Belarus: caught between the EU's and Russia's conditionalities?

    Article • European Politics and Society, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  17. Pariah State No More: Belarus’ International Actorness against the Backdrop of the Ukraine Conflict

    Article • January 2018, Nomos Verlag

    Alena Vieira

  18. A Tale of Two Unions: Russia–Belarus Integration Experience and its Lessons for the Eurasian Economic Union

    Article • Journal of Borderlands Studies, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  19. Introduction: The European Union’s strategic partnerships: conceptual approaches, debates and experiences

    Article • Cambridge Review of International Affairs, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  20. Eurasian integration: elite perspectives before and after the Ukraine crisis

    Article • Post-Soviet Affairs, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  21. Ukraine, Russia and the strategic partnership dynamics in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood: recalibrating the EU’s ‘self’, ‘we’ and ‘other’

    Article • Cambridge Review of International Affairs, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  22. The European External Action Service and National Foreign Ministries

    Article • January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira, Professor Richard Whitman

  23. Ukraine in the European Union's Partnership Policy: A Case of Institutionalized Ambiguity

    Article • European Politics and Society, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  24. A União Europeia como Ator na Vizinhança do Leste: O Caso da Ucrânia

    Article • Contexto Internacional, December 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Alena Vieira

  25. Ukraine’s Crisis and Russia’s Closest Allies: A Reinforced Intra-Alliance Security Dilemma at Work

    Article • The International Spectator, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  26. The Politico-Military Alliance of Russia and Belarus: Re-Examining the Role of NATO and the EU in Light of the Intra-Alliance Security Dilemma

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Alena Vieira

  27. A política externa russa em relação ao Norte: a dimensão setentrional e o Ártico

    Article • January 2014, Coimbra University Press

    Alena Vieira

  28. Vietnam's strategic hedging vis-à-vis China: the roles of the European Union and Russia

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, January 2013, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Alena Vieira