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Bruno Maçães

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Maçães in 2017

Bruno Maçães is a Portuguese philosopher, journalist, politician, consultant and author. He is a former Secretary of State for European Affairs in Portugal and a columnist for the New Statesman.[1] He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations,[2] and also a member of the Advisory Council for the Brussels Institute of Geopolitics.[3]

Education

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He studied at the University of Lisbon and Harvard University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation under Harvey Mansfield.[4]

Career

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His tenure as Secretary of State for European Affairs in Portugal took place during the country's financial crisis. In 2013 the main Greek newspaper wrote that he was very German in his economic views.[5] He told an audience in London that Germany has a "hypocritical" view to trade negotiations.[6] He was described by Wolfgang Munchau as "reinventing the wheel" after tabling a number of proposals for eurozone reform.[7] In April 2014, he defended an energy pact between the United States and Europe to face the Russian threat.[8] His strategy was to create an energy revolution and move Europe to the Atlantic.[9] Also in 2014, he was the first Western politician to visit Mariupol as it remained under Russian attack.[10]

Maçães left government in November 2015. He was a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, the Hudson Institute and Renmin University of China in Beijing.[11] He is the author of four books: Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order, History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America, and Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis. In Maçães's view, China's Belt and Road Initiative is the world's first transnational industrial policy as it goes beyond national policy to influence the industrial policy of other states.[12] His book The Dawn of Eurasia, published by Penguin in January 2018,[13] argued that the distinction between Europe and Asia had disappeared.[14] In 2018, The Dawn of Eurasia was granted the international Ranald MacDonald Award. His book History Has Begun describes a theory of "virtualism".[15] Geopolitics for the End Time was reviewed by Paul Krugman in the New York Review of Books.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Bruno Maçães, Author at New Statesman". New Statesman. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  2. ^ "Council members – European Council on Foreign Relations". ECFR. 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  3. ^ "Advisory Council — Brussels Institute for Geopolitics". big-europe.eu. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
  4. ^ "Transcript of Harvey Mansfield (III) on "Conversations"". Conversations with Bill Kristol. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  5. ^ "«Γερμανός» ο Πορτογάλος υφυπουργός Εξωτερικών, Ξενια Κουναλακη | Kathimerini". www.kathimerini.gr. Retrieved Apr 18, 2020.
  6. ^ Bermingham, Finbarr (2014-11-06). TTIP: Germany Accused of Hypocrisy over Opposition to ISDS Clause. International Business Times. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Eurointelligence - Bruno Maçães reinvents the wheel". www.eurointelligence.com. Archived from the original on July 12, 2020. Retrieved Apr 18, 2020.
  8. ^ Maçães, Bruno (Apr 22, 2014). "Send a Message to Putin With a Trans-Atlantic Energy Pact". Retrieved Apr 18, 2020 – via www.wsj.com.
  9. ^ "Energy revolution from East to West". Jun 4, 2014. Retrieved Apr 18, 2020.
  10. ^ UKRAINE TODAY (2015-04-28). Exclusive Interview: Bruno Maçães talks about his impressions of trip to Mariupol. Retrieved 2024-05-16 – via YouTube.
  11. ^ "The War and the Future w/ Bruno Maçães". HURST. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  12. ^ Curtis, Simon; Klaus, Ian (2024). The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 165. doi:10.2307/jj.11589102. ISBN 9780300266900. JSTOR jj.11589102.
  13. ^ Maçães, Bruno. "The Dawn of Eurasia". www.penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved Apr 18, 2020.
  14. ^ Maçães, Bruno (2015-11-25). "We are all Eurasian now". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved Apr 18, 2020.
  15. ^ Maçães, Bruno (2020-09-09). "How Fantasy Triumphed Over Reality in American Politics". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  16. ^ Krugman, Paul (2022-03-10). "Covid's Economic Mutations". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 69, no. 4. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2024-05-16.


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