Francisco Torres

Associate Professor

Francisco Torres

Associate Professor

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Invited Associate Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). He is currently teaching ‘European Integration’ at FCH and ‘The Political Economy European Integration’ at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. Previously, he taught at the Department of Economics, FCH/UCP, the National Institute for Public Administration (Programme Chair) and the U. Aveiro (Visiting Associate Professor) and was Executive and Deputy Director of the European Studies Centre/Institute of UCP (1991-98), where he also coordinated the Master’s Program and the Centre´s/Institute’s Research. He has held positions at the London School of Economics (2014-19) and Oxford University (2012-2019), where he was also PEFM Associate and Santander Fellow. Furthermore, he was a Researcher in Economics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (PhD programme, 1986-89), having become the 1st Robert Schuman Fellow of the European Commission at CEPS in Brussels in 1989/90, returning later on to the EUI as a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He has also taught at the U. of Victoria, Canada, the U. of Rome II (Tor Vergata) and King’s College London. He has published numerous journal articles and (co-)authored and (co-)edited 15 books on Economic Policy, Political Economy and European Integration. He holds an MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), an MRes in Economics from U. Nova, Lisbon, and a PhD in European Political Economy (European Studies – Economics) from U. Católica, Lisbon, and has held a 1-year post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford University.

Publications

Book

Lessons on the Political Economy of European Integration Selected Topics

Francisco Torres & Annette Bongardt (with Bongardt, Annette). 2024. UCP Press

Book Chapter

EU Governance and Trade Dynamics in the Context of Globalization Challenges

Francisco Torres & Annette Bongardt (with Francisco Torres). 2023. Globalization and EU Trade Policy at the Time of Crises

Gabinete PROTEUS part of the new UCP4SUCCESS project

Rita Figueiras: "Trump e a sua caixa de ressonância"

1st Psychology & Environmental Sustainability Colloquium

Francisco Torres

Francisco Torres

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Lessons on the Political Economy of European Integration  Selected Topics

EU Governance and Trade Dynamics in the Context of Globalization Challenges

On Governance and Sustainability Challenges for EU Trade Policy

Portugal

The European Green Deal at the core of the EU’s and EMU’s sustainability

The Political Economy of Europe's Future and Identity: Integration in Crisis Mode

The Qualitative Change in EU Trade in a Weakened Multilateral Trade Order

What way forward for European Integration in permanent crisis mode?

What way forward for European Integration in permanent crisis mode?

EU trade dynamics and the European model in the context of new globalization patterns and global governance

Lessons on the political economy of european integration

The European Green Deal: More than an Exit Strategy to the Pandemic Crisis, a Building Block of a Sustainable European Economic Model*

The EUs recovery programme implemented under a new policy framework

What have we learned and how is EU trade policy to cope with new challenges?

Brexit: EU must protect its own interests,EU muss eigene Interessen wahren: Brexit

Europe’s vaccine paradox

After the bailout 10 years of the euro area crisis

Brexit

Brexit as a question of political rationality

Conclusion

Introduction

Introduction ¿ The politics and economics of Brexit

Lessons From the Coronavirus Crisis for European Integration

On the limits of EU differentiated integration

Portugal's adjustment program The run-up to the sovereign debt crisis, program design, implementation and legacy

Portugal's adjustment program: the run-up to the sovereign debt crisis, program design, implementation and legacy

Portugal: the economy

The political economy of adjustment throughout and beyond the eurozone crisis

The politics and economics of Brexit

EU Trade and Regulation: Economic and Political Dynamics

European Union, global trade and Brexit

Trade agreements and regional integration The European Union after Brexit

Completing EMU, deepening the EU

European Union international trade and Brexit

Sobre as fronteiras externas e internas da União Europeia

The road towards a genuine economic and monetary union: More competitive and fairer

Trade agreements and regional integration: the European Union after Brexit

What Should Be the EU’s Approach to Global Trade?

A qualitative change in the process of European integration

After the Election: Brexit and the EU,Nach der Wahl: Brexit und die EU

Brexit

Comprehensive Trade Agreements: Conditioning Globalisation or Eroding the European Model?

Editorial

EMU as a Sustainable Currency Area

Sobre a lógica e termos da saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia

An 'economics' window on an interdisciplinary crisis

Back to external pressure: Policy responses to the financial crisis in Portugal

Brexit

Economic Reform under Europe 2020

EMU and structural reform

EMU and sustainable integration

EMU reform and resilience in a re-dimensioned EU

Governance of the European Monetary Union

The EMU's legitimacy and the ECB as a strategic political player in the crisis context

The New Institutions for an Effective EU Governance

The political economy of brexit: Why making it easier to leave the club could improve the EU

Using interdisciplinary analysis to shape a policy agenda

An ‘Economics’ window on an interdisciplinary crisis

EMU and sustainable integration

Using interdisciplinary analysis to shape a policy agenda

Political Economic and Monetary Union: EU and Domestic Constraints

Convergence in the EU: Forging sustainable growth: The issue of convergence of preferences and institutions in EMU

Economic governance and sustainability

O Papel da Crise no Processo de Construção Europeia

Sobre a Contribuição da Teoria das Relações Internacionais para o Processo de Integração Monetária Europeia

The EMU's Legitimacy and the ECB as a Strategic Political Player in the Crisis Context

The Euro Crisis, Institutional Change and Political Constraints

Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development in the EU

Portugal: a chance to implement previously adopted objectives

The Lisbon Strategy

The competitiveness rationale, sustainable growth and the need for enhanced economic coordination

Back to external pressure: Policy responses to the financial crisis in Portugal

Comentário ao capítulo de Vítor Gaspar e Miguel St. Aubyn

Introduction: A European Perspective on Globalization

Lessons on the Political Economy of European Integration Selected Topics

The EUs recovery programme implemented under a new policy framework

Lessons from Portugals Long Transition to Economic and Monetary Union

A Atribuição do Nobel da Economia 1993 e a Nova Teoria Política da Economia