Published 3 April 2018 Women’s role in peace processes, and the political economy of gender-based violence in post-conflict societies. These are topics researched by one of the new honorary doctors in social sciences – the political scientist Jacqui True. Jacqui True is a professor of political science and international relations in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University in Australia w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-honorary-doctor-expert-women-peace-processes - 2025-07-15

Published 18 April 2018 Ulrika Waaranperä and Sandra Engstrand, PhD-students at Lund University and Malmö University, will defend their dissertations this week. Ulrika Waaranperä will defend her dissertation "Histories of land: Politicization, property and belonging in Molo, Kenya" on April 19 at 10.15 in Niagara, Malmö University. The external reviewer is professor Morten Bøås, Norwegian Institut

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Published 27 April 2018 Christer Jönsson has contributed with the chapter "Classical Liberal Internationalism" to the revised edition of the book ”International Organization and Global Governance” (edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson). Although unfairly pilloried for being out of touch with "reality" by a new generation of realist scholars after World War II, classical liberal internati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/revised-edition-classical-liberal-internationalism - 2025-07-15

Published 3 May 2018 Why are some countries more democratic than others? Why do some countries remain democratic whereas other backslide toward authoritarianism? In the recently-published article “Economic development and democracy: An electoral connection”, Jan Teorell, together with Carl Henrik Knutsen, John Gerring, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Mathew Maguire, Michael Coppedge and Staffan Lindberg, arg

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/economic-development-and-democracy - 2025-07-15

Published 15 May 2018 Mikael Sundström has, together with Robert Holmberg, authored the article "When implementation falters: the challenge of having peripheral issues stick in organisations", that has been published in Journal of Strategy and Management. The purpose of the article is to study a class of issues that in spite of recognised needs and explicit managerial demands have proven notorious

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Published 18 May 2018 Ole Elgström is first author, with co-authors Natalia Chaban, Michèle Knodt, Patrick Muller och Sharon Pardo, of the article "Perceptions of the EU's role in the Ukraine-Russian and the Israel-Palestine conflicts: A biased mediator?, which was recently published in the journal International Negotiation. Abstract:This article focuses on how the European Union’s (EU) mediation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-eu-biased-mediator - 2025-07-15

Published 21 May 2018 Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg have author the article ”Neuro-politics: knowing politics through the brain”. Abstract:In recent years, neuroscientific knowledge has been applied far beyond its context of emergence to explain human behaviour in general and to address a host of specific societal problems. In this article, we discuss the emerging research field of ‘neuropolit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-science-and-brain - 2025-07-15

Published 28 May 2018 Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban author the article "On a Journey with Uncertain Destination: Metaphors and Images of the EU in Russian and Ukrainian Media after Brexit Vote", which has been published in the journal European Foreign Affairs Review. Abstract:The outcome of the British Brexit referendum sent shockwaves across Europe. It sent signals about the futur

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-characterize-eu-after-brexit - 2025-07-15

Published 29 May 2018 To what extent have long-standing norm diffusion and socialization processes affected the rights for the Russian minority in Estonia? In the article “Beyond Compliance: Recognition, Solidarity and Minority Rights in Post-Accession Estonia” recently published in the journal “Nationalism and Ethnic Politics”, Roxanna Sjöstedt examines the internalization of the minority rights

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-minority-rights-after-socialization-processes - 2025-07-15

Published 31 May 2018 Karin Aggestam has authored the chapter "Depoliticisation, Water, and Environmental Peacebuilding” in the handbook ”Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding”. Learn more about the handbook on routledge.comKarin Aggestam’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-depoliticization-and-environmental-peacebuilding - 2025-07-15

Published 11 June 2018 Audrey Vandeleene has, together with Lieven De Winter, authored the book chapter ”The Curious Stability of Candidate Selection Methods in Belgium in Times of Crisis” in the book ”The Selection of Politicians in Times of Crisis”. In their chapter, they analyse changes in the processes of selection of electoral candidates over time, with a special focus on non traditional part

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-intraparty-candidate-selection-processes-times-crisis - 2025-07-15

Published 14 June 2018 This year, Sweden celebrates a century of democracy and fair elections are seen as self-evident. How did our democracy develop and how did we get rid of election fraud? One of your researchers has now examined the country’s election fraud history and its underlying causes – from 1719 to the early 1900s. The conclusion? Bureaucrats and political parties are the biggest factor

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-sweden-became-one-worlds-most-stable-democracies - 2025-07-15

Published 18 June 2018 Johannes Lindvall has, together with David Rueda, authored the book chapter ”Public Opinion, Party Politics, and the Welfare State” in the book ”Welfare Democracies and Party Politics—Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism”. I their study Johannes Lindvall (Lund University) and David Rueda (University of Oxford) show how social policy in rich d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-development-welfare-state - 2025-07-15

Published 21 June 2018 Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall and Jan Teorell are the editors of the newly released book “De-Centering State Making”. Bridging the gap between international relations and comparative politics, this book transposes Eurocentric theories and narratives of state-making to new historical and geographical contexts in order to probe their scope conditions. In doing this, the authors

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Published 25 June 2018 Thorsteinn Kristinsson has co-authored three chapters in the forthcoming book ”Small States and Shelter Theory: Iceland’s External Affairs”.  Through a re-examination of the history of Iceland’s external relations, the book proposes a new theoretical framework with which to understand the place of small political entities in world politics. Further information about the publ

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Published 14 August 2018 Johannes Lindvall and Per Andersson, who defended his dissertation at the department in 2017, has just published the article ”Crises, investments, and political institutions” in the Journal of Theoretical Politics. The article is based on a game-theoretic analysis of decision-making under different types of institutions.Read the article on Sage Journals’ websiteJohannes Li

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-decision-making-under-different-types-institutions - 2025-07-15

Published 16 August 2018 What influences the likelihood that an individual joins a radical group? Hanna Bäck and Niklas Altermark have, together with Emma Bäck and Holly Knapton, studied this question in an experimental study. The results show that when experiencing social exclusion, highly rejection sensitive individuals tend to adapt to the radical group’s opinionsThe researchers write more abou

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-and-altermark-radicalization - 2025-07-15

Published 17 August 2018 Karin Aggestam has together with Ann Towns, Gothenburg University, authored the article ”The gender turn in diplomacy: a new research agenda”. The article is published in International Feminist Journal of Politics. Learn more on tandfonline.comKarin Aggestam’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-gender-and-diplomacy - 2025-07-15

Published 21 August 2018 Jan Teorell is a new member of the Skytte Prize Committee, which is one of the largest academic prizes in the field of Political Science. - I expect to learn even more about the already vast, heterogeneous and growing field of political science. I have some previous experience with being on prize committees for the American Political Science Association, but nothing on thi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-joins-skytte-prize-committee - 2025-07-15

Published 29 August 2018 Annika Björkdahl has authored the article ”Republika Srpska: Imaginary, performance and spatialization”, which has been published in Political Geography. This article is about the becoming of states and how such states are a socially constructed spaces, imagined and performed by those who perceive themselves as belonging to that state. It asks through what imaginaries and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-becoming-states - 2025-07-15