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...

Why are Western governments not retrieving detained minor nationals from Al-Hol’s purgatory-like conditions? This article shows, under international human rights law, that the status of children as bearers is uncontroversial, their right to positive protection. We raise issues recent debate on securitisation geopolitics in relationship between Middle East and West, demonstrate there little rand...

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...

with the collapse of the soviet :union:, vacuum of power emerged in the south caucasus. this matter has sparked trans-regional and regional powers competition. the newly established republics create challenges and opportunities for iran and turkey. the result of this situation is the competition between tehran and ankara in the region. this topic is highly important in regional equations becaus...

after the soviet union fragmentation, the attentions of regional and international countries have turned to this region for oil and gas discovery in the caspian basin. after that, this region enjoys more geopolitical importance increasingly. therefore, the main question is:” what factors can influence the new geopolitics of the caspian basin?” it seems that, some issues such as the lack of a...