
Dr Clara PORTELA
Current affiliation: Singapore Management University
Subject: Political Science
Primary location: Singapore
European embargoes in Asia
Published in:The Palgrave Handbook of EU-Asia Relations
Publication date:Not availableWhat's it about?This chapter, co-authored with Pascal Vennesson, explores the sanctions practice of the EU in East Asia, analysising and constasting its policies v...
The UN, regional sanctions in Africa
Published in:International Affairs
Publication date:2015-11-01What's it about?This article, co-authored with Andrea Charron, outlines the relationship between regional sanctions and UN sanctions in Africa, pointing to previou...
European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy
Published in:Not available
Publication date:2010-07-07When and Why do they Work?
What's it about?An assessment of the efficacy of autonomous sanctions imposed by the European Union in advancing foreign policy goals, from the Maastricht Treaty u...
Where and why does the EU impose sanctions ?
Published in:Politique européenne
Publication date:2005-01-01What's it about?This article maps the global distribution of EU sanctions targets, and explores the motivations for their imposition in the period 1992-2003. It sh...
The EU and Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Introducion
Published in:The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Publication date:Not availableWhat's it about?This chapter introduces the collective volume on the role of the EU in the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, published in 2015.
EU Non-proliferation Policy before and after 2003
Published in:The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Publication date:Not availableWhat's it about?This chapter, co-authored with Benjamin Kienzle, contrasts EU non-proliferation policies before and after the release of its first-ever strategy ag...
Assessing the EU's Performance in Non-Proliferation
Published in:The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Publication date:Not availableWhat's it about?This chapter summarirses the findings of the collective volume on the role of the EU in the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, assessing the org...
The EU and the Iran and North Korea nuclear files
Published in:The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Publication date:Not availableWhat's it about?This chapter analyses and contrasts the approaches taken by the EU and China vis-a-vis the Iranian nuclear file.
The rise and fall of Spain's ‘nuclear exceptionalism’
Published in:European Security
Publication date:2014-01-02What's it about?This article explains how Spain, which had hosted US nuclear weapons prior to its accession to NATO, became a nuke-free Alliance member.
The EU's GSP Sanctions
Published in:Contemporary Politics
Publication date:2014-01-02What's it about?This article, co-authored with Jan Orbie, critically reviews the EU's practice of withdrawing trade preferences for political reasons, a scarcely-k...
The EU and Belarus
Published in:Comparative European Politics
Publication date:2011-07-11What's it about?This article analyses and contextualises the period of rapprochement that took place between the EU and Minsk in 2009, and examines its relevance t...
National Implementation of UN Sanctions: Towards fragmentation
Published in:International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis
Publication date:2010-03-01Towards Fragmentation
What's it about?This article discusses current challenges to the implementation of UN-mandated sanctions by its members, with a focus on sanctions implementation i...
EU Sanctions on Syria
Published in:UNISCI Discussion Papers
Publication date:2014-03-20What's it about?This article analyses the sanctions regime imposed by the EU against Syria - one of the most far-reaching and audacious sanctions packages imposed ...
The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Published in:Not available
Publication date:2015-01-01What's it about?This collective volume assesses the performance of the EU in the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The Politics of Coercion
Published in:The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy: Two Volume Set
Publication date:Not availableWhat's it about?This chapter, co-authored with Chiara Ruffa, reviews the use of military operations and sanctions by the EU, assessing the evolution of the scholar...
The EU, human rights and Myanmar
Published in:Europe and Asia: Perceptions From Afar
Publication date:2014-01-01What's it about?This article analyses how stakeholders from selected Southeast Asian countries (Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) viewed the EU's conde...
The EU, China and the Iranian nuclear question
Published in:China, the European Union and the Developing World
Publication date:Not availableWhat's it about?This chapter contrasts the approaches taken by the EU and China to the Iranian nuclear file.
The perception of the EU in Southeast Asia
Published in:Asia Europe Journal
Publication date:2010-07-01Low priority statuses and selectivity
What's it about?This article analyses the perception of the EU and of the European integration project among stakeholders in selected Southeast Asian countries.
EU integration and nuclear weapons
Published in:Security Dialogue
Publication date:2010-04-01What's it about?What will be the role of nuclear weapons in European defence integration? This article, co-authored with Ursula Jasper, evaluates the prospects and...
The European Union as a Normative Foreign Policy Actor
Published in:SSRN Electronic Journal
Publication date:Not available
EU-ASEAN relations
Published in:Not available
Publication date:2012-01-01What's it about?This collective volume, co-edited with Daniel Novotny, provides an overview and analysis of the intensifying political relations between the EU and...
EU sanctions and the Arab Spring
Published in:Mediterranean Politics
Publication date:2016-01-18What's it about?This article examines to what extent the Arab Spring constitutes a critical juncture – a major turning point – for the EU’s sanctions policy toward...