Published 20 November 2023 'Caring feminist states? Paternalistic feminist foreign policies and the silencing of Indigenous justice claims in Sweden and Canada' by Annika Bergman Rosamond, Georgia De Leeuw and Jessica Cheung in INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS. Annika Rosamond Bergman Georgia de Leeuw ABSTRACTThe self-identification of Sweden and Canada as exceptionally caring and ethica

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Published 21 November 2023 Associate Professors Ted Svensson and Agustín Goenaga, Lund University. Congratulations on the grant! Abstract Previous research has offered important insights about the instruments that states use to govern their populations. It has also shown that colonial experiences had far-reaching consequences for contemporary levels of political and economic development. However,

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Published 24 November 2023 Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (SLU) have received a 4-year grant from Formas for the project ”NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning”. Congratulations! SummaryThe notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- an

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Published 27 November 2023 Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt and Professor Hanna Bäck, Lund University. Roxanna Sjöstedt, Hanna Bäck, and Louise Olsson at PRIO in Oslo have received a four-year research grant from the Swedish Research Council, the call Project Grant for Research on Societal Preparedness and Security. Congratulations! Project: All Aboard!? A multi-level analysis of societal secu

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Published 27 November 2023 Annika Fredén has co-authored a new field experiment article in the US-based journal Election Law Journal in collaboration with Peter Esaiasson, University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, Stockholm University. We conducted the study in close collaboration with the Swedish election authorities and show that the infrastructure for voting and whether voters can select the b

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Published 28 November 2023 Professor Annika Björkdahl, together with Associate Professor Johanna Mannergren Selimovic at Södertörn University, have received research funding from the Swedish Research Council for three years of research with the project 'Beyond the Archive: Gendering Holocaust knowledge production through women's testimonies in the Ravensbrück archive'. Congratulations on the resea

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Published 12 December 2023 Professor Catarina Kinnvall and Professor Ian Manners, Lund University. The project is focused on the emotional economy of anti/pro-democratic expressions of grievances, with an aim to explain how anti-social grievance politics transform into democratic political action. Congratulations on the research grant! Project name: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance

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Published 19 December 2023 Associate Professor Sara Kalm, Lund University. The distinctive features of modern citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive. These characteristics largely evolved during the “long nineteenth century”, the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Similar to that of today, the historical sit

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Published 9 January 2024 Gustav Agneman and Lisa Strömbom has co-authored a new article in Journal of Conflict Resolution (open access). It presents results from a conjoint field-experiment in Meta, Colombia. Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, Lund University. Associate Professor Gustav Agneman, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The article helps increase und

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Published 11 January 2024 Anders Uhlin has together with Malin Arvidsson authored the chapter “Civil Society Boundary Crossing and Elite Integration” published in Civil Society Elites: Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, and Contestation of Civil Society Actors at the Top, edited by Håkan Johansson & Anna Meeuwisse. Professor Anders Uhlin, Department of Political Sciences, Lund U

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/arvidsson-and-uhlin-boundary-crossing-civil-society-elites - 2025-07-03

Published 11 January 2024 Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has published a paper in Geopolitics: “Room to grow and the right to say no: theorizing the liberatory power of peace in the Global South”. How do we make space for peace in the Global South, in a context of rising economic and political inequalities as well as environmental and climate change impacts?AbstractThis article builds on feminist and

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Published 12 January 2024 Karin Aggestam and Constance Duncombe have co-authored the article and edited the special issue “Advancing a New Research Agenda on Digital Disruption in Diplomacy”. Abstract:This article introduces the special issue on digital disruption in diplomacy. We propose a new research agenda, advancing novel conceptualisations and empirical insights into the hybrid nature of con

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Published 2 February 2024 On Wednesday, Georgia de Leeuw nailed her thesis, "The Comfort of Alignment: Mining, Green Steel, and Killjoy Desires in Sweden/Sápmi" at the Department of Political Science, Eden. Georgia de Leeuw nails her thesis to the wall in Eden, surrounded by her colleagues. In the background is the Assistant Head of Department for Doctoral studies, Ted Svensson. The public defense

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Published 8 February 2024 Professor Karin Aggestam, Lund University and Jacqui True, Monash University (Karin's photo: Johan Persson). Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the contribution ”Foreign Policy Analysis and Feminism” published in the The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis. Read more about The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis here:https://global.oup.com/acade

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Published 12 February 2024 We would like to congratulate Ketevan Bolkvadze for receiving funding as a partner in a Europe-wide consortium. The project "Re-ENGAGE: Re-Engaging with Neighbours in a State of War and Geopolitical Tensions" received EUR 3 million in funding through the Horizon Europe framework. Associate Senior Lecturer Ketevan Bolkvadze, Lund University. (Photo: DAVIS) Lund is one of

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Published 15 February 2024 Associate Professor Magdalena Bexell, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Magdalena Bexell has published the article "Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the Sustainable Development Goals" in the journal Global Policy. The article suggests the notion of a global indicator reporting trajectory that is sha

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Published 16 February 2024 Although there is no clear connection between attractiveness and generosity, we often expect attractive people to be more generous than less attractive people. This study explores the bi-directional relationship between (expectations of) prosocial behavior and attractiveness. In a pre-registered behavioral experiment, we examined the causal effect of attractiveness on ex

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/beauty-prosocial-behavior-how-prosocial-behavior-affect-attractiveness - 2025-07-03

Published 20 January 2022 Sara Kalm has published the article ”The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance” in the journal Global Society. The article is concerned with the private firms that design and manage programs for selling citizenship for the governments that have chosen this policy path. It examines how these firms exert power, by a focus on their interm

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Published 21 January 2022 Photo: Michael Erhardsson, Mostphotos Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Resea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2025-07-03

Published 25 January 2022 Rikard Bengtsson has together with Douglas Brommesson (Linnaeus University) published an article entitled "Institutional trust and emergency preparedness: Perceptions of Covid 19 crisis management in Sweden" in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. The article analyses the Swedish public's trust in different actors involved in Covid 19 crisis management and how

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