Dr Maria Aranzazu Gomez Arana

Senior Lecturer

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Gomez Arana joined Northumbria University as a Senior Lecturer in International Relations in May 2020.

She has also taught at other Universities in the UK. In 2015 she was a visiting lecturer at Bamberg University (Germany) as part of the Erasmus+ staff mobility programme. And she has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Salamanca (Spain). She has two PhD completions (2021 and 2025) and has supervised more than a 100 dissertations.

She has published with Manchester University Press in 2017 The European Union's policy towards Mercosur: Responsive not strategic (Open Source) and in 2022 Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century (together with Dr. Maria Garcia, Bath University). And she has also received external funding for different projects.

In addition, Dr. Gomez Arana collaborates with external partners such as Fundacion Carolina and the EU-LAC Foundation. And was previously a Trustee and Elected Committee Member of UACES, a Co-convener of BISA European Security Working Group and of the Foreign Policy Working Group. Finally, she is also a member of Gridale

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Dr. Gomez Arana has published extensively on:

- European Union's External Relations (including Brexit)

- European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean relations

- European Union - Mercosur/Andean/Central America relations

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Adaptation and engagement with contemporary sustainability challenges in the EU-Andean and EU-Central America free trade agreements, Garcia, M., Gomez Arana, A. 30 Nov 2025, In: Frontiers in Political Science
The Council and Latin America: The Voice of the States, García, M., Gómez Arana, A. 24 Feb 2025, The Palgrave Handbook of EU-Latin American Relations, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
The European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Global Gateway, Gomez Arana, M. 29 Oct 2025
Towards the 2025 EU–CELAC Summit: Academics and diplomats debate the future of the bi-regional partnership, Gomez Arana, A., Luciano, B., Rodríguez Díaz, J. 25 Sep 2025
EU and Mercosur bloc breakthrough, Gomez Arana, A. 10 Dec 2024
The EU-Mercosur agreement: running out of time?, Gomez Arana, A. 12 Oct 2023
Conclusion: The more things change the more they stay the same?, Gomez Arana, M., Garcia, M. 22 Mar 2022, Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century, Manchester University Press
Introduction, Gomez Arana, M., Garcia, M. 22 Mar 2022, Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century, Manchester, Manchester University Press
Latin America and European Union relations in an interdependent world going through "deglobalisation", Gomez Arana, M. 22 Mar 2022, Latin America-European Union relations in the twenty-first century, Manchester, Manchester University Press
Latin America–European Union relations in the twenty-first century, Gomez Arana, M., Garcia, M. 22 Mar 2022

PGR Supervision

Ashleigh Forrest 'Very West, More East and Somewhere in Between'The reaction of Finland, Belarus and Ukraine against Russian foreign policy between 1995 – contemporary times. Start Date: 01/03/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025
Ashleigh Forrest 'Very West, More East and Somewhere in Between'The reaction of Finland, Belarus and Ukraine against Russian foreign policy between 1995 – contemporary times. Start Date: 01/03/2024 End Date: 10/01/2026