Antonio Costa Pinto is a Professor of Politics and Contemporary European History at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He holds his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence (1992). He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (1993), Georgetown University (2004), a senior associate member at St Antony's College, Oxford (1995), and a senior visiting fellow at Princeton University (1996) and at the University of California, Berkeley (2000). From 1999 to 2003 he was a visiting professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is currently president of the Portuguese Political Science Association. His research interests include fascism and authoritarianism, democratisation and transitional justice in new democracies, the European Union, and the comparative study of political change in Europe