Clara PORTELA va nàixer a València i viu entre València i el món. El seu treball ha estat guardonat amb el Premi THESEUS per la Recerca Prometedora en Estudis Europeus. Les seues citutats de docència han sigut: Angers, Barcelona, Beijing, Biskek, Göttingen, Grenoble, Hanoi, Innsbruck, Kuala Lumpur, Lió, Manila, Marburg, Ottawa, París, Saigon, Singapur, Tòquio, Varsòvia i Victòria.
És membre de la xarxa #NoSinMujeres
Les seues publicacions recents inclouen:
Borzyskowski, I./ C. Portela, Global Governance from Below. Regional sanctions as drivers of UN sanctions, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023, 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. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2022.2146336?tab=permissions&scroll=top
Portela, C., The changing nature of CFSP sanctions, in A. Kellerhals, T. Baumgartner and C. Reber (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
Portela, C., The EU’s human rights sanctions regime: Unfinished business?, Revista General de Derecho Europeo, 54 (2021),19-44.
Jones, L./ C. Portela, Evaluating the success of international sanctions: A new research agenda, Afers Internacionals, 125 (2020), 39-60. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/RevistaCIDOB/article/download/374655/468688/