Published 6 May 2025 Professor Annika Björkdahl, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Photo: Johan Persson. Annika Björkdahl and Sofia Cognini have published the article “Anti-genderism in 280 characters: A study of Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni’s online discourse” in Party Politics. The authors analyze the Italian right-wing party leaders’ online discourse on Twitter/X to spread

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Published 9 May 2025 Jana Wrange has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Civil Defence (Re)Emerged: A Multi-Level Perspective on Policy Developments in Post-Crimea Europe'. Congratulations to Dr. Wrange! External reviewer: Professor Jan Ångström, the Swedish Defence UniversitySupervisor: Rikard BengtssonAssistant supervisor: Lisa StrömbomMore information about the thesis is available in the

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Published 25 November 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

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Published 24 November 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

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Published 24 November 2014 Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This is an excellent opportunity for students who are inter

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Published 18 November 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

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Published 16 November 2014 Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. This new polit

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Published 14 November 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Karin Aggestam has penned a chapter entitled Conflict Analysis and International Relations in the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

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Published 14 November 2014 SYMPOSIUM. Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies invites the public to the symposium Social Resistance in Non-Democracies 25-26 November. Learn more.

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Published 11 November 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Christian Göbel speaks about Digitalisation instead of Democracy: Online Complaints as Drivers of Regime Institutionalization in China at the Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies conference.  Learn more.

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Published 11 November 2014 The milestone 2000 likes on the department's Facebook has just been reached. Thanks all Fb-friends! Learn more, go to our facebook.

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Published 10 November 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall has co-edited the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

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Published 7 November 2014 The European University Institute is offering 160 grants for a fully funded PhD programme (including political science). Learn more.

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Published 6 November 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Emil Persson has penned the article Banning “Homosexual Propaganda”: Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary Russian Media, which has recently been published in Sexuality & Culture Learn more.

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Published 3 November 2014 CONFERENCE. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies present: Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies event takes place on 13 November 2014. At this one day conference they have invited speakers from different disciplines, including political science, anthropology, and media and communication, who will share their research and

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Published 2 November 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Maysam Behravesh has penned the article Iran's Reform Movement: The Enduring Relevance of an Alternative Discourse, which has recently been published in Digest of Middle East Studies. Learn more...

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Published 1 November 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Ole Elgström was part of an international panel charged with evaluating research at the School of Management, Tampere University. Learn more. The University of Tampere.     

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Published 27 October 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Tobias Dan Nielsen has co-authored the article Mapping the narrative positions of new political groups under the UNFCCC, which has recently been published in Climate Policy.  Learn more...

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Published 26 October 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Erik Ringmar visits Comenius University in Bratislava to talk about Political theory for nomads, and Political performances: A critique of constructivist IR theory (28 & 29 October). Learn more...

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Published 24 October 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Erik Ringmar is working on History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective – an interactive textbook for undergrads. Please contribute comments and suggestions or download the book for free. Learn more...

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