Luciano, Bruno Theodoro

Dr. Bruno Theodoro Luciano is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS and a Researcher at the São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. Editor of the Journal Contemporary European Politics (Wiley/UACES). His research focuses on the political developments of the European Union-Latin America and Caribbean relations, examining their inter-governmental and inter-parliamentary dimensions. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Project ‘Examining the Design and Implementation of the EU's Global Gateway Agenda to Latin America’, funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil.

In addition to this primary line of research, he is also interested in ​inter-regionalism and comparative regionalism in Europe, South America and Africa, with a focus on the agenda of trade, democracy protection, civil society participation, and parliamentary diplomacy. Prior to that, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Teaching Fellow in Public Policy and European Studies at the University of Warwick (UK).

Co-author of the book ‘Liquid Regionalism in the Americas - An Analysis of Contemporary Regional Developments’ (Springer Cham/United Nations University Series on Regionalism) and author of the book ‘Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond’ (Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies series). Some of his research outputs have appeared in outlets such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, Global Studies Quarterly, and Parliamentary Affairs. 

For more information about his publications, please see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruno-Theodoro-Luciano