About the author

Jochen Kleinschmidt is Associate Professor at the School of Political Science,Government and International Relations of Univ-ersidad del Rosario in Bogotá,Colombia.He received his doctorate from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU),Germany,in 2014.His research covers the topics of world society theory,political geography,North-South relations and conflict studies,and has been published recently in journals such as International Politics ,Alternatives ,and Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional .