The paper is an attempt at geopolitical contextualization and realpolitik reading of comic works by Alejandro Jodorowsky. focus the analysis on so-called ?Jodoverse? - a segment Jodorowsky?s opus which includes three great science-fiction sagas ?The Incal?, Saga Metabarons? ?Technopriests?. These works, can be defined as ?space operas? in terms genre, vividly evoke futuristic vision one possibl...

The European Green Deal is a plan to decarbonise the EU economy by 2050, revolutionise EU’s energy system, profoundly transform and inspire efforts combat climate change. But will also have profound geopolitical repercussions. affect geopolitics through its impact on balance global markets; oil gas-producing countries in neighbourhood; security; trade patterns, notably via carbon border adjustm...

While the vision of data sharing for big data science, cyberinfrastructure, and cooperative scientific work is exciting, the practice is full of challenges. Based on qualitative methods guided by grounded theory and 70 interviews, three such challenges are presented in this paper. They are single-investigator culture in traditional academic, accidental data contamination, and geopolitics of dat...

The book should not, and will not, pass unnoticed, and not just among specialists in the field of population studies proper, but well beyond, not the least among those engaged in geopolitics and international relations. For whatever forces shape the future of our world, demographics will prevail. A top World Bank population expert, John May combines field experience with deep intellectual think...

In the international digital platform market, a handful of US companies enjoy immense cultural, economic and political power. The short form video TikTok provides significant competition to these incumbents but so far policymakers have focused on geopolitical implications TikTok. This paper content analysis government company sources, issued between April August 2020, systematically establish g...