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Ana Isabel Xavier

Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence of Portugal

Dr Anna Xavier has served as the Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence of Portugal since April 2024. She has been an associate professor in international relations and researcher in European studies, security, and defence. Since 2020, she has been a member of the board of the Portuguese Atlantic Commission. Dr Xavier is a regular trainer of the European Security and Defence College courses (CSDP), Training for Eastern Partnership Countries, and CSDP Reflection Seminar, as well as the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument of the European Commission (TAIEX). From 2015 to 2017, she served as Deputy Policy Director at the Ministry of Defence. Dr Xavier is an analyst in international affairs in RTP, the national public television, with a weekly magazine on Europe, and a contributor on world politics.
Subjects:
Belarus, China, Defence, Europe, European Union, Middle East, Migration, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, West
Updated: April 26, 2022

Agenda

Trans-Atlantic Relations at a Time of Growing Isolationism
LMC 2024
TallinsideOut podcast live recording
LMC 2024
They Rise or Sink Together: NATO on the Road to Vilnius
LMC 2023
Europe, European Union, NATO, United Kingdom
Here I Am: Europe’s Place in the World
LMC 2022
Belarus, China, Migration, Russia, Ukraine, West
A Flood Is Threatening: Weaponised Migration
LMC 2022

Articles

AP/Scanpix
Defence, European Union, Middle East, Migration
The Migration Trap: A Southern Flank Perspective

Since the 2015 crisis, migration has become the biggest Achilles heel of the EU’s solidarity as the discrepancy in the impact of migration on the southern, northern, and central and eastern European (CEE) countries steadily challenges a common action.

Ana Isabel Xavier
LMC 2023