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NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "The devil lies in the definition: competing approaches to fossil fuel subsidies at the IMF and the OECD” in the journal “International Environmental Agreements”. The article concerns how the IMF and the OECD have addressed subsidies to fossil fuels in different ways and which factors that induced them to address them the way that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skoovgard-competing-approaches-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-12-15

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Stephanie Kappler published the book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation. Peace, Space and Place with Routledge. The book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analyzing the links between peacebuilding agency, space and place. It focuses on case studies from Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-investigates-peacebuilding-post-conflict-scenarios - 2025-12-15

Reform Capacity argues that the view that an effective government requires a concentration of power is mistaken. Professor Johannes Lindvall recently published his new book Reform Capacity at Oxford University press.Reform Capacity argues that the view that an effective government requires a concentration of power is mistaken. Reform capacity - the ability of political decision makers to adopt and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reform-capacity-professor-johannes-lindvall - 2025-12-15

Catarina Kinnvall, professor in Political Science and Political Psychology, has published the article "Racism and the Role of Imaginary Others in Europe" in Nature Human Behaviour. From Nature Human Behavior:Europe has witnessed an increase in covert cultural racism that is reflected in recent political turmoil in its nation-states. Far-right movements and populists are exploiting fear about exist

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-racism-and-imaginary-others - 2025-12-15

Nina Wilén has published the article "Gender and Blue Helmets" that reviews two new books on gender and peacebuilding. The books are The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, policing and the UN's first all-female peacekeeping unit, by Lesley J Pruitt, and Gender and peacebuilding, by Claire Duncanson.Both books focus on the encrease of female peacebuilding forces and peacebuilding in general, to encreac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-comparing-two-books-gender-and-peacebuilding - 2025-12-15

Nina Wilén, guest researcher at the Department of Political Science, has together with Bert Ingelaere at the University of Antwerpen published the article "War-torn Congo has been called the “rape capital of the world.” Here is how fighters think about sexual violence." "Here's what we've missed until now: How do rebels think about sexual violence? That's what we asked former rebels in Congo". Nin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilen-how-rebels-think-about-sexual-violence - 2025-12-15

Annika Björkdahl och Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have published the article "Feeling Silence in a Place of Pain" in International Feminist Journal of Politics. The article describes the denial of war-time wrapes in the small town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnien-Herzegovina. "What are we doing here? We are here to experience how a place of pain is layered by silences that oppress, erase and deny, a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/silence-deny-war-time-wrape - 2025-12-15

The Swedish Research Council has decided that the Kerstin Hesselgren professorial chair for 2019 will be held by Robyn Eckersley, professor of Policitical Science at the University of Melbourne Australia. During her time in Sweden she will work at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Full article (in Swedish) at The Swedish Research Council web site: Beslut om Kerstin Hesselgren

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/robyn-eckersley-lund-guest-professor-2019 - 2025-12-15

Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration, Niantic’s location-based vi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-12-15

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15 PM in Edens lobby. The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-12-15

Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European countries. Link to articleHanna

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-12-15

Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-12-15

Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "technocrats" has not increased s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-12-15

The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice in earth system governan

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-12-15

Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize winners.The SO research p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-12-15

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jama'at stands for and att

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-12-15

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Altermark, Sara Kalm and Anders

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-12-15

Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute. Critical Animal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-12-15

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the reform of the EU’s greenhous

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-12-15

We are very happy to congratulate Jessica Giacomoni who on October 14th, 2022 successfully defended her thesis "Exploring Direct Conversion of Human Glia into Therapeutic Neurons". PhD interview: Turning glia into neurons inside the brain – PhD interview with Jessica Giacomoni Please click here to read the thesis.

https://www.regenerative-neurobiology.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-giacomoni - 2025-12-15