Developmental Environmentalism: State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asias Green Energy Transition

About Elizabeth ThurbonHao TanJohn A MathewsSung-Young Kim

Elizabeth Thurbon is a Scientia Fellow in International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney and a Fellow of The Asia Society (2021-22). Her research focusses on the state's strategic role in techno-industrial development and change. Her most significant contributions to the field examine varieties of economic statecraft the rise and transformation of East Asia's developmental states and the state's strategic role in the clean energy shift. Her most recent book Developmental Mindset (Cornell University Press) offers a fresh way of conceptualizing and analysing East Asia's developmental states and examining their emergence and evolution. Sung-Young Kim is Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Politics and International Relations Macquarie School of Social Sciences Macquarie University. His work is published in Energy Policy Journal of Environment and Development Review of International Political Economy New Political Economy Global Policy Politics & Society Review of Evolutionary Political Economy and The Asia-Pacific Journal. His research and teaching is on the international political economy of renewable energy transitions in East Asia. He is Regional Editor (Korea) for Asian Studies Review journal and serves on the Executive Committees of the Australian Political Studies Association and the Korean Studies Association of Australasia. Hao Tan is an Associate Professor with Newcastle Business School in the University of Newcastle Australia. His research is focused on energy transitions and their global implications from management and policy research perspectives. His work has appeared in Nature Foreign Affairs Journal of World Business California Management Review Management and Organization Review and Energy Policy. He also writes frequently for influential English and Chinese-language media outlets on issues relating to China's energy industry and climate policy. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Technological Forecasting and Social Change a leading academic journal in innovation studies. John Mathews is Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University Sydney in the Macquarie Business School. Formerly Professor of Strategy at MGSM from 2009 to 2012 he held concurrently the Eni Chair of Competitive Dynamics and Global Strategy at LUISS University in Rome. Professor Mathews has focused recently on the strategic dynamics of greening of industry. In 2017 he published Global Green Shift with Anthem Press in London. In July 2018 Professor Mathews was awarded the biannual Schumpeter Prize in recognition of his work and most recent book. The four authors of Developmental Environmentalism won the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy Best Paper Award 2022/2023.