For some years, he was the editor in chief of «Relações Internacionais», a quarterly journal of international affairs published in Lisbon since 2004. His PhD thesis (2007) examined Britain’s political and diplomatic involvement in the final stages of Portugal’s imperial crisis (1945-75). He has published a number of books and articles on topics related to Portuguese foreign and imperial policies and Contemporary history in general. He will spend his time in Oxford conducting research on the role of the international media vis-à-vis Portugal’s colonial war (1961-74), as well as preparing a book which will compare Portugal’s late imperial trajectory/decolonisation with that of other colonial empires.