Paulo Duarte is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and Invited Professor at the University of Minho.Rui Albuquerque is a Professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto, at the Faculty of Law and Political Science.António Manuel Lopes Tavares is a Professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto, at the Faculty of Law and Political Science.

• ​Introduction.- Part I: Legal issues and Politics within the Lusophone World.- Chapter 1. The Feasibility of the Portuguese Legal System in the Former African Colonies.- Chapter 2.  The onto-anthropological foundation of Criminal Law in Brazil.- Chapter 3. Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: a view of Portugal and Brazil.- Chapter 4. Economic Law: a focus on Lusophone Competition Laws.- Chapter 5. The Role and Influence of Portuguese Law in the Macau SAR of the People’s Republic of China: Issues and Perspectives.- Chapter 6. The Pillars of Portuguese Foreign Policy: From the first globalization to the 21st century. -Chapter 7. Reframing Portuguese Foreign Policy after 1974: The Lusophone Discourse as Instrument of a Global Coloniality of Power.- Chapter 8. Portugal and China Geopolitics: Avenues to Cooperation.- Part II. The Atlantic and the Lusophone World.- Chapter 9. China, Portugal and the Atlantic: the Shifting Geopolitics, by Jorge Tavares da Silva, Paulo Afonso B. Duarteand Rui Pereira.- Chapter 10. Lusophone Connections and China’s Growing Presence in the South Atlantic.- Chapter 11. “So much sea”: opportunities and challenges in Portugal-Brazil maritime cooperation.- Chapter 12. Lusophone cooperation frameworks and the expansion of the Atlantic Maritime Security.- Chapter 13. The Spatial Development Initiatives: The Case of African Portuguese Speaking Countries.- Chapter 14. Brazil´s reach out to Africa.- Chapter 15. The nativist movement in Angola: a proposal for a modern state and society in the Lusophone context.- Chapter 16. Cabo Verde´s Geopolitical Position in the Mid-Atlantic.-  Chapter 17. Mozambique Geopolitics in the Lusophone World: Challenges and Perspectives.- Chapter 18. Luso-Mozambican Diplomatic Cooperation in the Case of the Terrorist Conflict in Cabo Delgado.- Chapter 19. Lusophone Geopolitics: Blue Economy and Maritime Security in Contemporary Mozambique’s Geopolitics.- Part III. Influence and Institutional cooperation in the Lusophone World.- Chapter 20. The Geopolitics of the Portuguese Language: Knowledge and Influence.- Chapter 21. The Portuguese Science Diplomacy and EU’s External Activities with Lusophone Africa: Looking at the Co-Building Approach.- Chapter 22. The Nets that Empires Weave: The Commonwealth of Nations and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries.- Chapter 23. The Soft Power of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries.- Chapter 24. Wavering cooperation: Portugal and Lusophone Africa at the United Nations General Assembly.- Chapter 25. Transition to a New Geopolitics of Energy: the Lusophone World.- Chapter 26. The Role of Forum Macao in the People’s Republic of China Foreign Policy.- Chapter 27. The Geopolitics of Timor-Leste: Belt & Road Initiative, ASEAN and CPLP.