Dr Vlado Vivoda

Dr Vlado Vivoda specialises in policy and political economy of energy and minerals.

Dr Vivoda’s research focuses on a wide range of topics related to extractive industries. His publication record includes two single-authored books, six book chapters, twenty journal articles and numerous technical reports. His particular focus is on policy and political economy of energy and minerals.

Dr Vivoda holds a PhD in International Relations from Flinders University. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and a Masters of Arts in International Relations from the Australian National University. Prior to joining CSRM in 2014, Dr Vivoda held research positions at the University of South Australia and Griffith University.

Industry

Dr Vivoda has provided expert advice and consultancies for a wide range of stakeholders, including companies, government departments and non-governmental and international organisations.

Collaborations

Dr Vivoda has collaborated with numerous scholars within Australia and internationally. Academic collaborations include:

• a paper entitled ‘A Comparison of Chinese, Indian, and Japanese Perceptions of Energy Security’ with Professor Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex;
• a paper entitled ‘International political economy: a field born of the OPEC crisis returns to its energy roots’ with Dr Kathleen Hancock, Colorado School of Mines;
• a paper entitled ‘Problems of regulatory governance in the mining sector in Asia’ with Terry O’Callaghan, University of South Australia.

Key Publications

Vivoda, Vlado (2009). 'Resource nationalism, bargaining and international oil companies: challenges and change in the new millennium'. New Political Economy, 14 4: 517–534.

Hancock, Kathleen J. and Vivoda, Vlado (2014). 'International political economy: a field born of the OPEC crisis returns to its energy roots'. Energy Research and Social Science, 1 206–216.

Vivoda, Vlado (2010). 'Evaluating energy security in the Asia-Pacific region: a novel methodological approach'. Energy Policy, 38 9: 5258–5263.

Sovacool, Benjamin K. and Vivoda, Vlado (2012). 'A Comparison of Chinese, Indian, and Japanese Perceptions of Energy Security'. Asian Survey, 52 5: 949–969.

Vivoda, Vlado (2009). 'Diversification of oil import sources and energy security: a key strategy or an elusive objective?'. Energy Policy, 37 11: 4615–4623.

Full list of publications available on espace

Funding

In 2012, Dr Vivoda was awarded a competitive three-year Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA), valued at $375,000.