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Description
Portugal and Iceland are small European and Atlantic states, whose diplomatic histories only made each other’s acquaintance in the second half of the twentieth century, in 1957, when Portugal presented its credentials to Iceland. In addition, while they are both on the edge of Europe, they have followed different paths, with some similarities though, in what concerns their foreign policy, namely as to the European and the Atlantic (EURO-ATLANTIC) dimensions and their participation in regional and international organizations.
EURO-ATLANTIC aims to address the determinants that champion for or
Summary of the results
The bilateral initiative “EURO-ATLANTIC: The European and Atlantic dimensions of Portugal and Iceland''s foreign policies”, financed by the EEA Grants Portugal Bilateral Relations Fund, between January 2021 and December 2022, was a partnership between the Portuguese Institute of International Relations at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Center for Small State Studies at the University of Iceland. The project analyzed the factors that promote, or hold back, a country''s membership in regional or international organizations, and their relationship with major powers, through a comparative study between the foreign policies of Portugal and Iceland. After discussing the results in two research seminars (Lisbon, 2021 and Reykjavik, 2022), the most important output of the project is the book “Small States and Big Powers: Portugal and Iceland`s Foreign Relations” (Springer, 2023).
They will also evaluate the feasibility for an ERASMUS+ partnership.