Dr. Alice Cunha is Assistant Professor with Habilitation in International Relations at the NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), and Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), where she has worked on European Integration, an area in which she has published extensively. Her main research interests are related to European Union Studies, the history of European integration, enlargement studies, Europeanization, European funds and Portuguese foreign policy. She is a member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians.