Nuno Severiano Teixeira

Nuno Severiano Teixeira (left) with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates , June 8, 2007

Nuno Severiano Teixeira (born November 5, 1957 in Bissau , Guinea-Bissau ) is a Portuguese historian and politician. From 2000 to 2002 he was Minister of the Interior as representative of the Socialist Party , and from 2006 to 2009 Minister of Defense of Portugal.

Life

Nuno Severiano Teixeira was born in what was then the Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau . In 1981 he completed his history studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Lisbon with a Licenciatura . From 1989 to 1992 he conducted research at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), where he also received his doctorate in the history of international relations in 1994. From 1996 to 2000 he was director of the Institute for National Defense. In 2000 he was a visiting professor at the Government Department at Georgetown University , and in 2003 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley . In 2005 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the New University of Lisbon . He is currently Pro-Rector for Strategic Planning of the New University of Lisbon and Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Portuguese Institute for International Relations at the same institution.

In addition to his academic career, Severiano Teixeira also served as a politician. In the second cabinet of the socialist António Guterres , he headed the Ministry of the Interior. In the first cabinet of Prime Minister José Sócrates , he was Minister of Defense from the cabinet reshuffle on July 3, 2006 until the end of his term on October 26, 2009.

Works (selection)

• O Ultimatum Inglês. Política Externa e Política Interna no Portugal de 1890 (The English ultimatum. Foreign and domestic policy in Portugal from 1890; Lisbon 1990)
• O Poder ea Guerra. Objectivos nacionais e estratégias políticas na entrada de Portugal na Grande Guerra 1914-1918 (The power and the war. National goals and political strategies when Portugal entered the Great War 1914–1918; Lisbon 1996)
• Portugal ea Guerra - História das intervenções militares portuguesas nos grandes conflitos mundiais do século XX (Portugal and the War - History of Portuguese military interventions in the major global conflicts of the 20th century; Lisbon 1999)
• A Primeira República Portuguesa. Entre o Liberalismo eo Autoritarismo (The First Portuguese Republic. Between Liberalism and Authoritarianism; Lisbon 2000)
• Southern Europe and the Making of the European Union (Southern Europe and the emergence of the European Union; in collaboration with António Costa Pinto; New York 2002)

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Portuguese government (Portuguese, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Novos ministros tomam posse hoje , [New ministers take up their posts today], Público , 3 July 2006