ARNALDO M.A. GONÇALVES is professor of Political Science and International Relations in Macau, China. He is a research fellow at the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal and president of Luso-Asian Forum, a think-tank on China-Portugal relations.

He has authored eight books in political thought, law, political science and international relations, and publishes, regularly, in his areas of expertise in scientific reviews from Poland, Argentina, Portugal, Ireland, Singapore, France and Macau.

Arnaldo Gonçalves

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Macau, depois do adeus

(Macau, after the goodbye)

Macau, depois do adeus

This is a book about the last 15 years of Macau as a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Religion, Culture and Sense of Belonging

Religion, Culture and Sense of Belonging

In the diverse set of subjects that are treated by the discipline study of religions, Arnaldo selected seven that he was particular fond off.

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Norberto Bobbio. A Tradição Europeia da Liberdade

(Norberto Bobbio. The European Tradition of Liberty)

Norberto Bobbio

Arnaldo Gonçalves aims in this book to draw the profile of the Italian author, philosopher and jurist that has had an enormous influence in the Italian intellectual panorama for more than four decades, being also a philosopher respected in the Anglo-Saxon world by his works on Kant, Hobbes, Marx and Kelsen.

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Manual de Formação de Contratos Públicos

(Manual of Public Contracts)

Arnaldo Gonçalves

Manual de Contratos’ is a legal synopsis of the regulations that regulate, in Macau, this type of contracts that look to provide the territory with constructions and infrastructures required by the development of the city.

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O Mundo como Vontade e Imaginário

(The World as Will and Imagination)

Arnaldo Gonçalves

O Mundo como Vontade e Imaginário’ is a collection of essays of Arnaldo Gonçalves, published through the years in several newspapers, a collection organized by the journalist Maria João Leal. The book was published in 2010, by Delta Edições, an editor from Macau.

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O Poder e o Direito, Ensaios de Direito Constitucional e Ciência Política

(Power and Law. Essays of Constitutional Law and Political Science)

Arnaldo Gonçalves

"O Poder e o Direito" aims to discuss the controversial but luminous relationship between politics and law. `The books was published by Delta Edições and gather ten articles and essays published by Arnaldo Gonçalves in his function as professor of law and political science in Macau at a local academic institution. The texts cover subjects so diverse such as constitutional law, political philosophy, comparative politics and the formation of political leaders.

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A Europa à Procura do Futuro – Da Convenção de Filadélfia ao Tratado de Lisboa

(Europe looking for a Future: From the Philafelphia Convention to the Treaty of Lisbon)

Arnaldo Gonçalves

A Europa à procura do Futuro’ was dictated by the interest of Arnaldo Gonçalves to compare the political process that led to the approval of the Constitution of the United States of America and the political discussion that took place around the Convention on the Future of Europe.

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O Diálogo Europa-China-Ásia-Pacífico: Desafios e Turbulência no século XXI

(Dialogue Europe-China-Asia-Pacific. Challenges and Turbulences in the 21st Century)

Arnaldo Gonçalves

The book is edited by Arnaldo Gonçalves in his quality of president of Luso-Asian Forum, a NGO located in Lisbon dedicated to strengthen the cultural relations between Portugal and China, through Macau. The book runs through the challenges that threaten the bilateral relationship of Europe, China and Asia in the light of the strategic and military rivalry of China and Japan for regional control.

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Biography

ARNALDO M.A. GONÇALVES is professor of Political Science and International Relations in Macau, China, with a long collaboration to the Polytechnic Institute of Macau, as lecturer in the graduation of public administration, and recently in the Master of Public Administration. He is a research fellow at the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal and in 1997 found ‘Luso-Asian Forum’, a think-tank on China-Portugal relations, which he presides upon, since then. Dr. Gonçalves earned his PhD from the Catholic University of Portugal, in 2012, with a thesis on Europe-China relations, under the supervision of Prof. Carmen Mendes, of University of Coimbra. He has a Master Degree in Political Science from the same university (2003) and a law degree from the University of Lisbon, completed in 1977.

Dr. Gonçalves has authored eight books in the areas of political thought, law, political science and international relations, all in Portuguese. As independent researcher, he has been publishing, regularly, in his areas of expertise in scientific reviews of Poland, Argentina, Portugal, Ireland, Singapore, France and Macau. Dr. Gonçalves has contributed regular opinion columns to the press since 1991, presently having a bi-monthly column at the daily newspaper ‘Hoje Macau’. From 1991 to 1997, he was political and legal adviser to the Portuguese Government of Macau. Presently, is a legal consultant at Macau Institute of Civic and Municipal Affairs. Dr. Gonçalves is member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Portuguese Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association (APSA).

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