Climate Change in Regional Perspective

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics (UK), University of Erfurt and the Free University of Berlin (Germany). Her teaching and research interests include democracy and legitimacy in international politics, Latin American regionalism, and relations between the EU and Latin America, Paula Sandrin is Professor of International Relations atthe Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil , with a doctorate and master's degree in International Relations from the University of Westminster (UK) and a degree in Social Communication from PUC-Rio. She is co-editor of the journal¿Contexto Internacional: Journal of Global Connections. Her teaching and research interests include the role of affects and emotions in global politics and economics; psychoanalytic approaches in IR; racial issues in IR; and relations between the European Union and Turkey. Yannis E. Doukas is Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). He holds a PhD in the Political Economy of the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His teaching and research interests include agricultural policy, agricultural economics, food security and crisis and International and European economics. He has worked as special adviser to the Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal¿Region & Periphery and member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation for Mediterranean Studies (Greece).