Bruno Maçães

Bruno Maçães is a former politician, author and one of today’s most important geopolitical thinkers. After obtaining his PhD in Political Science at Harvard, he taught International Political Economy at Yonsei University in Seoul and Political History at Bard College in Berlin. In 2008, he became a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research — a (neo)conservative think tank. From 2011 to 2013, Maçães was senior advisor to the Prime Minister of Portugal; he then served as the Secretary of State for European Affairs up until 2015. He was decorated by Spain and Romania for his governmental work. Since 2018, Maçães has published several books on international affairs: The Dawn of Eurasia. On the Trail of the New World Order (2018), Belt and Road. A Chinese World Order (2018), History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America (2020) and Geopolitics for the End Time. From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis (2021). Additionally, he regularly contributes to journals and magazines such as Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Politico, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. In many of his writings, Maçães criticizes the naïve attitude of the European West toward contemporary geopolitical developments.