Lorena Ruano
Lorena Ruano is a Mexican scholar of Spanish origin. She has been Professor of International Relations at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) since 2003 in Mexico City. Her research and teaching have focused on European integration and relations between Europe and Latin America, with numerous national and international publications.
She graduated from El Colegio de México, and obtained her M. Phil, and D. Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, in the United Kingdom. She was Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. In 2007 she was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission for the project The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies towards Latin America which was published by Routledge in 2012. Between 2013 and 2016, she was Chair of the Department of International Studies at CIDE as well as the scientific coordinator of CIDE’s participation in Atlantic Future, an EU 7th framework funded project. In 2016 she spent a year at El Colegio de México as an Associate Researcher in Mexico City, and in 2017, she worked as Senior Associate Analyst at the European Union Institute of Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. In 2022-23 she was a Visiting Researcher at Fundación Carolina in Madrid, Spain. From september 2023, she has been teaching as Adjunct Professor at Carlos III and IE Universities in Madrid.
Supervisors: Anne Deighton
She graduated from El Colegio de México, and obtained her M. Phil, and D. Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, in the United Kingdom. She was Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. In 2007 she was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission for the project The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies towards Latin America which was published by Routledge in 2012. Between 2013 and 2016, she was Chair of the Department of International Studies at CIDE as well as the scientific coordinator of CIDE’s participation in Atlantic Future, an EU 7th framework funded project. In 2016 she spent a year at El Colegio de México as an Associate Researcher in Mexico City, and in 2017, she worked as Senior Associate Analyst at the European Union Institute of Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. In 2022-23 she was a Visiting Researcher at Fundación Carolina in Madrid, Spain. From september 2023, she has been teaching as Adjunct Professor at Carlos III and IE Universities in Madrid.
Supervisors: Anne Deighton
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Mexico and the EU negotiated at full speed the “modernisation” of the Global Agreement, between January 2017 and April
2018.
The first section provides some background about
Mexico’s place within the EU-LAC bi-regional relationship, the
contents of the original EU-Mexico Global Agreement, and a
brief assessment of its performance. The second part sets out
the factors that led to the decision to modernise it in 2013,
the changes in US policy since the end of 2016 that led to the
acceleration of negotiations, and how EU and Mexican trade
policies have reacted to them. The third section explains the
new aspects introduced in the Global Agreement and sketches
some of the hurdles that it may face ahead.
desde la Independencia hasta hoy, una trayectoria de descenso interrumpida de
forma intermitente por episodios de coincidencia y acercamiento. El contexto
bipolar de la Guerra Fría no fue favorable a la reconstrucción de las relaciones,
marcadas por la falta de convergencia en las agendas de las dos partes.
Desde finales de los setenta —añaden los estudiosos—, la reactivación de
la relación con España, su democratización y europeización y la incorporación
de México a la economía global sólo permitieron frenar la tendencia de alejamiento,
sin revertirla. La institucionalización de las relaciones México-Unión
Europea, con el Tratado de Asociación de 1998, fue la cúspide de este reacercamiento,
pero no dio todos los frutos que se esperaban de él. Fuertes inercias
internas y regionales continúan alejando a ambos socios y dejan en claro que
la relación ocupa un lugar secundario entre las prioridades de unos y otros, y
que la agenda común se mantiene por debajo de su importancia potencial.
Papers by Lorena Ruano
Mexico and the EU negotiated at full speed the “modernisation” of the Global Agreement, between January 2017 and April
2018.
The first section provides some background about
Mexico’s place within the EU-LAC bi-regional relationship, the
contents of the original EU-Mexico Global Agreement, and a
brief assessment of its performance. The second part sets out
the factors that led to the decision to modernise it in 2013,
the changes in US policy since the end of 2016 that led to the
acceleration of negotiations, and how EU and Mexican trade
policies have reacted to them. The third section explains the
new aspects introduced in the Global Agreement and sketches
some of the hurdles that it may face ahead.
desde la Independencia hasta hoy, una trayectoria de descenso interrumpida de
forma intermitente por episodios de coincidencia y acercamiento. El contexto
bipolar de la Guerra Fría no fue favorable a la reconstrucción de las relaciones,
marcadas por la falta de convergencia en las agendas de las dos partes.
Desde finales de los setenta —añaden los estudiosos—, la reactivación de
la relación con España, su democratización y europeización y la incorporación
de México a la economía global sólo permitieron frenar la tendencia de alejamiento,
sin revertirla. La institucionalización de las relaciones México-Unión
Europea, con el Tratado de Asociación de 1998, fue la cúspide de este reacercamiento,
pero no dio todos los frutos que se esperaban de él. Fuertes inercias
internas y regionales continúan alejando a ambos socios y dejan en claro que
la relación ocupa un lugar secundario entre las prioridades de unos y otros, y
que la agenda común se mantiene por debajo de su importancia potencial.
Abstract: The European Union-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-CELAC) Summit, held on July 17 and 18, 2023 in Brussels, represents a turning point and a new beginning for Euro-Latin American relations. In an international context of growing uncertainty and risks, the relaunch of these relations stands as a platform for mutual benefit. Firstly, it can serve to expand the autonomy and resilience of both regions in a world of growing geopolitical rivalry, but that requires governance and rules. Secondly, it can be useful to strengthen democracy and open societies in both regions, which also implies talking about development, effective public policies, and the renewal of the social contract. Thirdly, the bi-regional relationship can contribute to defining innovative strategies of economic and commercial associations, and cooperation to relaunch development, with a societal “triple transition”: digital, green and also social, that EU and Latin America need to address. This Working paper presents diverse contributions from specialists and academic figures, who analyze the state of Euro-Latin American relations after the EU-CELAC Summit.