Clarissa Correa Neto Ribeiro 
Overlapping Regional Organizations in South America and Africa [PDF ebook] 
Coexistence Through Political Crises

– 1. Introduction. – 2. Regionalism in the Global South: Institutional Mapping of the Scenarios of Overlapping. – 3. Overlapping Organizations and Political Crises in Africa. – 4. Overlapping Organizations and Political Crises in South America. – 5. Analysis and Conclusion: Comparative Regionalism, Political Crises,
De Facto Overlapping, and Regional Cohesion. – 6. Final Considerations.

Clarissa Correa Neto ​Ribeiro holds a Ph D and a master’s degree in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (UNESP/ UNICAMP/ PUC-SP), and a bachelor’s degree in State Sciences (Ciências do Estado) from the Minas Gerais Federal University (UFMG), Brazil. She has received the CAPES scholarship of the Brazilian government through her master’s and Ph D degrees,  in addition to a CAPES Pr Int postdoctoral scholarship at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program. She has been a visiting exchange student at the Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay) with funding provided by the AUGM Programa de Escala de Pos Grado (2015), and a visiting doctoral fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies – GIGA, in Hamburg, Germany. She is a member of the Research Network on Foreign Policy and Regionalism (REPRI) and the Regionalism Observatory in Brazil, where she has acted as a student coordinator. She has research experience in regional integration and regionalism, and has investigated mainly processes in Latin America and Africa through comparative regionalism, with a work focus on overlapping regional institutions.