[Biografia, versió en valencià]

Clara PORTELA va nàixer a València i viu entre Russafa i el món.

Els seus llocs de docència han sigut Angers, Barcelona, Beijing, Biskek, Göttingen, Grenoble, Hanoi, Innsbruck, Kristiansand, Kuala Lumpur, Lió, Manila, Marburg, Ottawa, París, Saigon, Singapur, Tòquio i Varsòvia, a més de Victòria en la Colúmbia Britànica i, per descomptat, el món vitual. És membre de la xarxa de politòloges #NoSinMujeres [No sense dones].

Les seues recerques giren entorn de la política exterior de l'Unió Europea i de qüestions de seguretat internacional, principalment les sancions i el control d'armaments. El seu treball ha estat guardonat amb el Premi THESEUS per la Recerca Prometedora en Estudis Europeus, i el seu article sobre cooperació diferenciada en política exterior europea amb En M. Onderco (Universitat Erasmus Rotterdam) ha sigut finalista pel Premi Bernard Brodie 2024. Els seus articles van aparéixer en revistes com International Affairs, Comparative European Politics, Security Dialogue, Mediterranean Politics, Zeitschrift für Integration i Politique Européenne. Les seues publicacions recents inclouen: 

Ressenya sobre el film 'Oppenheimer', Revista Mètode: https://metode.cat/revistes-metode/opinio/oppenheimer-un-esguard-de-reguard-des-de-les-ciencies-socials.html

Portela. C., El régimen de sanciones de la UE en favor de los derechos humanos: una revisión, Politica Exterior No. 203 (2026), 150-160. 

Portela, C./ Onderco, M. / Vignoli, V., Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly?, Contemporary Security Policy,46(4), (2025), 1171-1196, https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2025.2551632

Portela, C./ J.S. Mora-Sanguinetti, Aid Sanctions and Hybrid Regimes, Journal of Development Studies, 61(10), (2025) 1555-1578, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2481878

Palestini, S./ C. Portela, The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia, Cooperation and Conflict, online first. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DVHBMS3ZFWEMVTGEIDP6/full

Holesch, A./ C. Portela, Money talks? The effectiveness of sanctions in the Rule of Law conflict in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies (2025), 63(4), 1178-1196. http://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13693

Portela, C., The war over Ukraine and the transformation of EU governance, European Papers, 8(3), (2023), 1125-30, https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/files/pdf_version/EP_EF_2023_I_035_Clara_Portela_00706.pdf

Portela, C./ J.S. Mora-Sanguinetti, Sanctions effectiveness, development and regime type, World Development 172 (2023), https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0305-750X(23)00188-2

Portela, C., Logiques des sanctions de l’Union européenne contre la Russie au sujet de l’Ukraine. Études Internationales, 54(2) (2023), 287–310.

Borzyskowski, I./ C. Portela, Global Governance from Below. Regional sanctions as drivers of UN sanctions, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(10) (2023), 1930-58, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027231153565

Portela, C./ A. Charron, The evolution of databases in the age of targeted sanctions, International Studies Review, 25(1), (2023), https://academic.oup.com/isr/article-abstract/25/1/viac061/6987069?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Onderco, M./ C. Portela, External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment, Contemporary Security Policy, 44(1) (2023), 150–175. [nominat pel Premi Bernard Brodie 2024] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2022.2146336?tab=permissions&scroll=top 

Portela, C., Are EU GSP withdrawals and CFSP sanctions becoming alike?, European Foreign Affairs Review, 28 (2023), 35-52, https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/European+Foreign+Affairs+Review/28.Special%20%20[pre-publication]/EERR2023013

Portela, C., The changing nature of CFSP sanctions, in A. Kellerhals et al. (eds) European Integration Perspectives in Times of Global Crises, Europa Institut, Zurich (2023), pp. 73-87. https://eizpublishing.ch/publikationen/european-integration-perspectives-in-times-of-global-crises/

Charron, A./ C. Portela (eds.) Multilateral Sanctions Revisited, Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2022.

Portela, C./ JL. Romanet Perroux, UN sanctions and mediation in Libya: Synergy or obstruction?, Global Governance 28(2) (2022), 228-250. https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/28/2/article-p228_5.xml

Portela, C./ T. Van Laer, The design and impact of individual sanctions: Evidence from elites in Côte d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe, Politics and Governance, 10(1) (2022), 26–35. https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4745

Portela, C., EU-Sanktionen gegen Russland: Ein Überblick über Evaluierungspraxis, Osteuropa 71 (10-12) (2022), 103-113.

Portela, C./ P. Pospieszna/ J. Skrzypczyńska/ D. Walentek, Consensus against all odds: Explaining the persistence of EU sanctions on Russia, Journal of European Integration, 43(6) (2021), 683-99. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07036337.2020.1803854