Sören Scholvin

Professor Scholvin's research focuses on value chains in Africa and Latin America, extractive industries and tradable services, the geopolitics of emerging powers, and regional cooperation on energy and transport in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

He is the author of the book “The Geopolitics of Regional Power Geography, Economics and Politics in Southern Africa” (published in Ashgate’s series on ‘The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms’), in which he explains how geographical factors – that is, naturally given and man-made structures in geographical space – influence the economic and political relations in Southern Africa. Prof Scholvin advances a realist perspective in geopolitics and shows, by applying process tracing and qualitative comparative analysis as methodologies, that we can learn a lot about international relations by concentrating on their material context.