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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017)”, which has been published in the journal “Citizenship Studies”. Nationality determines access to political rights in most contemporary democra
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/should-immigrants-vote - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What are the incentives of politicians to either clean up or maintain corrupt courts in nondemocracies? Ketevan Bolkvadze examines this in a recent article published in the Comparative Political Studies. This article offers a novel take on the problem of judicial independence in nondemocracies. Some scholars hold that
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-problem-judicial-independence-nondemocracies - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Roxanna Sjöstedt has together with Anders Themnér, Uppsala University, co-authored the article ”Buying Them Off or Scaring Them Straight: Explaining Warlord Democrats’ Electoral Rhetoric”, which has been published in the journal Security Studies. AbstractPost–civil war democracies are characterized by intense electora
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-warlord-democrats-electoral-rhetoric - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds per
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ted Svensson has co-authored an article that was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. It is entitled 'Lessons from the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India'. The article, which is informed by a self-categorisati
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The teacher representatives on the board of the Department of Political Science in response to Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein's guest editorial in SvD concerning gender distribution among authors on course reading lists. In a guest editorial in the daily SvD on 7 November, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein expresses indignat
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/guideline-gender-distribution-does-not-influence-course-content - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam och Ann Towns have edited a new book on Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation (Palgrave). About the book:This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel re
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-aggestam-towns-gendering-diplomacy-and-international-negotiations - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson inquires into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our understanding of the modern political world and the role of war wit
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-war-international-thought - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter 'Säkerhet’ (Security) in the book Politik och Kön: Feministiska Perspektiv på Statsvetenskap, (translation: Gender and Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Science) edited by Lenita Freidenvall & Maria Jansson (Studentlitteratur). Link to book at Studentit
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-security-book-about-feminist-research - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall has together with John Cash edited a Special Issue in Postcolonial Studies (vol. 20, issue 3, 2017), entitled: ’Postcolonial Bordering and Ontological Insecurities’. Current and former colleagues at the Department, Ted Svensson and Emil Edenborg, also contribute articles to the Special Issue For more
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-postcolonial-studies-edited-catarina-kinnvall - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam, professor at the Department of Political Science and Ann Towns, associate professor at Gothenburg University have co-authored "Diplomacy: A Gendered Institution” i boken Diplomacy in a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press). About the book: In Diplomacy in a Globalizing World twenty-three respecte
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-ann-towns-women-and-global-diplomacy - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the turn of the year, Björn Badersten and Lisa Strömbom will take up their respective posts as head and assistant head of the Department of Political Science, respectively. They were both unanimously elected by the staff in mid-October, in an election held once every three years. Björn Badersten was previously assi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/continued-academic-freedom-guiding-light-new-leadership - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "Woodworlds: Stories of desire and grief in the Swedish forest" is a new research project led by Johannes Stripple and funded by BECC - The Swedish government’s strategic research area on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate. About the project from the Decision about research funding in BECC for 2
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-swedish-forest - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Niklas Altermark has recently published his book Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation with Routledge. The book advances and builds on his dissertation and deals with how people with intellectual disabilities are being governed. In addition, Altermark has also publish
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-niklas-altermark-how-people-intellectual-disabilities-are-governed - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fariborz Zelli and Ina Möller convened a workshop on ‘Theory and Methods of Institutional Complexity in Global Governance’ in Duisburg Germany, 30 November – 1 December 2017. Participants included leading international experts on this topic such as Kenneth Abbott, Lasse Gerrits, Jessica Green, Peter Haas, Philip Hayne
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tomas Bergström is stepping down as head of department after nine years at the helm, twelve if you count his time as assistant head of department. During his time as head of department, the department grew by 50 per cent, external funding tripled, internationalisation proceeded at record speed, English became the work
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/tomas-bergstrom-hands-over-growing-eden - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mats Fred will defend his dissertation "Projectification. The Trojan horse of local government" tomorrow on February 16 at 10:15 in Niagara, Malmö University. Discussant is professor Stig Montin from University of Gothenburg. Projectification. The Trojan horse of local governmentMats Fred’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mats-fred-defend-his-thesis - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Elsa Hedling’s and Douglas Brommesson’s article "Security through European integration or flexible autonomy: ambivalence in Sweden’s position on the Eastern Partnership” has been published in Global Affairs. In the article Hedling and Brommesson explore Sweden’s multiple roles in foreign policy in relation to its acti
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-and-brommesson-swedens-security-policy-ambivalence - 2026-05-13
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson have received funding from the Research Council Formas for the project "Putting a price on carbon emissions: what makes states adopt carbon pricing policies?". The project will answer the question which factors influence states to adopt carbon pricing policies (carbo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/grant-money-two-projects - 2026-05-13
