Luis Miguel da Vinha

Luis da Vinha is a Lecturer in International Relations at Flinders University. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations: International Politics & Conflict Resolution from the University of Coimbra (Portugal).

Luis is also a member of the Grupo de Estudos Avançados sobre Paz e Conflitos Internacionais (Brazil) and CEGOT (Portugal). Prior to joining Flinders University, he lived in the US and Europe for over two decades where he taught at Valley City State University (USA), the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences (Portugal) and worked in the field of planning and development. Luis was also active in politics, namely as a party and publicly-elected official.

His teaching and research interests are in International Relations, International Security, US Foreign Policy, American Government and Politics, and Political Geography. His research has been published with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Journal of Policy History, European Journal of Geography, Portuguese Journal of Political Science, and the Brown Journal of World Affairs, among others.