• 2022: Habilitation Diploma in International Studies (ISCTE-University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• 2016: Postdoc in B&R Studies (University of Macau, China)
• 2015: Pearl River Delta Academy of International Trade and Investment Law, Peking University and IIEM, China.
• 2011: International Law Advanced Diploma (Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI, Italy).
• 2010: Political Science and International Relations Ph.D. Degree (Catholic University of Portugal).
• 2003: Political Science and International Relations Master Degree (Catholic University of Portugal).
• 2001: War College Graduate (IAEM, Portugal).
• 1997: Law Degree (University Autónoma of Lisbon, Portugal).
• 1989: Military Sciences Degree (Army Military Academy, Portugal).

• People’s Republic of China (Belt and Road Initiative)
• Portuguese-speaking Countries
• International Relations & Geopolitics

• (2025–co-authorship) Geopolitics of Brazil and the South Atlantic, Palgrave Major Reference Book;
• (2025–co-authorship) Contracting and working with interpreters: The wartime linguists. Routledge Handbook on Interpreting and Translation in Armed Conflicts. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003355847;
• (2025–co-authorship) Brazil–China relations: A three-decade analysis of knowledge diplomacy (1994–2024). Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 68(2), e024. https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329202500225;
• (2025) Is China a Global Power? The Three Great Walls of the Middle Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan;
• (2024–co-authorship) The Palgrave Handbook on China-Europe-Africa Relations, Palgrave Macmillan;
• (2024–co-authorship) A Qualitative Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Maritime Silk Road in Europe: Who Benefits from the Initiative and Who Does Not. Asian Perspective, Vol 48, pp. 13-39, Johns Hopkins University Press. Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University. https://doi.org/10.1353/apr.2024.a919880;
• (2023–co-authorship) The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics, Palgrave Macmillan;
• (2023–co-authorship) Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States: The development journeys of Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste. Palgrave Macmillan;
• (2023–co-authorship) Changing the paradigm of energy geopolitics: Resources and pathways in the light of global climate challenges. Peter Lang Publishers;
• (2023–co-authorship) The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics, Palgrave Macmillan;
• (2023–co-authorship) Disentangled Visions on Higher Education: Preparing the Generation Next, Peter Lang Publishers;
• (2022–co-authorship) The Handbook of Special Economic Zones, IGI Global;
• (2021–co-authorship) Geopolitics of Iran, Palgrave Macmillan;
• (2020–co-authorship) The Belt and Road Initiative: An Old Archetype of a New Development Model, Palgrave Macmillan;
• (2019–co-authorship) The Challenges, Development and Promise of Timor-Leste, City University of Macau
• (2018) Steps of Greatness: The Geopolitics of OBOR, University of Macau.

Professor Francisco José BERNARDINO DA SILVA LEANDRO (https:// orcid.org/ 0000- 0002-1443- 5828) is currently an Associate Professor of Department of Government and Pubic Administration. Francisco José Leandro received a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2010. In 2014, 2017, and 2020, he was awarded the Institute of European Studies in Macau Academic Research Grant, which is a major component of the Asia-Europe Comparative Studies Research Project. From 2014 to 2018, he was the program coordinator at the Institute of Social and Legal Studies, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph in Macau, China. From 2018 to 2023 he was the associate dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the City University of Macau (China). Francisco Leandro is a member of CEI-ISCTCE and OBSERVARE (Observatory of Foreign Relations), established in 1996 as a centre for studies on International Relations at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal.