Articles by Lorenzo Santini

November 4, 2024

Women’s leadership in the European Parliament’s external delegations

Lorenzo Santini

In the European Parliament, ‘delegations’ are formal groupings of Members who maintain inter-parliamentary relationships. At recently held constitutive delegation meetings, the gendered allocations of leadership positions revealed a complex picture. Cherry Miller and Lorenzo Santini find that, despite initiatives to improve gender representation, there has been a decline in the number of ‘head’ women delegation […]

Lorenzo Santini

PhD candidate, Luiss University, Rome

Lorenzo's research interests encompass gender, parliaments, and diplomacy from intersectional perspectives.

He is currently working on a research project called Gendering European Parliament Diplomacy: Rules, Practices, and Discourses in Global Context, exploring how discourses on gender intersect with race and LGBTI+ identities in the cases of EP relations with the US, Canada, NATO, and the OACPS.

Lorenzo has previously published an article on the political leadership of the European Parliament in foreign policy in the Journal of Common Market Studies.

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