This perspective aims at a geopolitical conceptual and empirical contribution to research questions on power in energy transition research, coming from the history of Sustainability Transitions Studies. It answering call that has been made for development approaches take dynamics between actors into account, by authors article suggests approach relations, different scales transitions – understo...

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...

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...

Abstract This paper examines China's water governmentality in advancing the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC). It attends to how discourses, used as a political instrument, are framed, justified and contested reshaping of international hydrosocial territories. official popular discourses present LMC promoting multilateral politics, economic benefits social integration, while they obscure polariz...