Luís Nuno Rodrigues is Full Professor and Director of the Department of History at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, where he also directs the PhD in International Studies. He holds a PhD in American History from the University of Wisconsin and was a Visiting Professor at Brown University, USA. He previously served as Director of the Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Director of the PhD in History, Security and Defence Studies (in collaboration with the Military Academy), Director of the Master’s in International Studies, and Director of the Centre for International Studies at ISCTE. His main areas of expertise are the History of International Relations, Cold War History, 20th-century Portuguese History, and the History of the United States of America. He has supervised dozens of PhD and Master’s theses. He has organised more than one hundred colloquia, conferences, and seminars, and has delivered a similar number of papers at scientific events in Portugal and abroad. He is the author of nine books, editor of eight others, and has published 55 book chapters or entries in collective works, as well as more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His book Kennedy-Salazar: The Crisis of an Alliance. Luso-American Relations between 1961 and 1963, published in 2002, was awarded the Mário Soares Foundation Prize and the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Prize. His most recent publications include the book Spínola (Esfera dos Livros, 2010), the edited volume Perceptions of NATO and the New Strategic Concept (co-edited with Volodymyr Dubovyk), the article “Establishing a ‘Cultural Base’? The Creation of the Fulbright Program in Portugal,” published in 2017 in The International History Review, and the collective volume L’Aviation et son impact sur le temps et l’espace, published in 2019 by Éditions Le Manuscript.