Rikard Bengtsson har tillsammans med Douglas Brommesson (Linnéuniversitetet) publicerat artikeln "Institutional trust and emergency preparedness: Perceptions of Covid 19 crisis management in Sweden" i tidskriften Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. I artikeln analyseras svenska allmänhetens förtroende för offentliga aktörers krishantering under pandemin och hur denna påverkar förtroend

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/bengtsson-om-fortroende-och-krishantering - 2025-09-03

Thomas Hickmann har samförfattat en ny artikel, publicerad i open access i tidskriften Earth System Governance. Artikeln presenterar det aktuella kunskapsläget om förhållandet mellan demokratisk praxis och hållbarhetstransformationer. Med utgångspunkt från långvariga debatter om huruvida demokratisk praxis är kapabel att främja snabba och storskaliga omvandlingar mot hållbarhet, sammanfattar artik

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/klarar-demokratierna-uppgiften-att-skapa-en-storskalig-hallbarhetsforandring-och-uppratthalla-en - 2025-09-03

Lisa Strömbom har samförfattat artikeln "Tracing Responses to Recognition in the Oslo Peace Process and Its Aftermath – the Interlinkage between Relational and Internal Ontological Security" i tidskriften Conflict Resolution Quarterly (open access). Artikeln behandlar mekanismer för hur formella och relativt ytliga former av erkännande i fredsprocesser kan öppna upp för mer djuplodande konflikttra

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/strombom-om-erkannande-i-fredsprocesser - 2025-09-03

Lisa Strömbom, Isabel Bramsen och Anne Lene Stein har nyligen publicerat artikeln "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas" i Review of International Studies (open access). Studien utvecklar ett ramverk för analys av agonistiska principer i fredsavtal, baserat på de tre indikatorerna 1) plattformar för interaktion, 2) former för inkludering, och 3) hur fredsavtalet är formulerat.

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/strombom-bramsen-och-stein-om-att-analysera-och-forsta-agonistiska-principer-i-fredsavtal - 2025-09-03

Sara Kalm har skrivit ett bokkapitel om migration och välfärd tillsammans med Frida Boräng och Johannes Lindvall vid Göteborgs universitet. Kapitlet heter ”Welfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship”, och ingår den nyligen publicerade Handbook on Migration and Welfare, utgiven av Edward Elgar, red. Markus M.L. Crepaz. Länk till boken på Edward Elgar Publishings hemsid

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/kalm-borang-och-lindvall-om-migration-och-valfard - 2025-09-03

Malte Breiding Hansen and Maria Jansson (Örebro University) have authored the open-access article ”Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State” in the journal NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. The article asks whether articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of political agency have cha

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/hansen-and-jansson-gender-neoliberalism-and-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-09-03

Elsa Hedling has co-authored the book The Everyday Making of EU Foreign and Security Policy. Practices, Socialization and the Management of Dissent published Open Access by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book confronts why despite increasing levels of contestation on CFSP issues between EU member states, EU practitioners generally perceive their working environment as fully functional and even impro

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/hedling-everyday-making-eu-foreign-and-security-policy - 2025-09-03

Johan Matz has published an article in Intelligence and National Security. This article approaches the intelligence dimension of Sweden’s arms exports by going back to three governmental decisions, taken in 1914, 1935 and 1971 respectively, all of which have been pivotal to both the Swedish government’s involvement in arms exports and the emergence of government institutions handling the intellige

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/johan-matz-arms-exports-and-intelligence-case-sweden - 2025-09-03

In a newly published article in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson analyse the appeal of far-right populist politics in the everyday and how this appeal is related to continuity and change in the global order. One of their key arguments is that while far-right populism is able to momentarily overwrite a sense of deep-felt anxiety among i

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/new-article-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-dynamics-everyday-populism - 2025-09-03

I kapitlet ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” analyserar Rikard Bengtsson EU:s egen rolluppfattning som utrikespolitisk aktör så som den framträder i EU:s globala strategi från 2016 och problematiserar hur de senaste årens förändrade internationellpolitiska kontext ger nya förutsättningar för EU att agera på den globala arenan. Kapitlet ingår i den nyligen utkomna antologin

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/bengtsson-om-eus-rolluppfattning-som-global-aktor - 2025-09-03

Panelsamtal om Ukraina Den 9 mars 2022 diskuterade en expertpanel vid Lunds universitet den ryska invasionen av Ukraina. Forskarna resonerade kring: Varför är historien viktig för invasionen och konflikten? Vad innebär invasionen för Putins Ryssland, Ukraina och andra länder? Hur påverkar invasionen Sverige, Europa och resten av världen? Se paneldiskussionen “The Russian invasion of Ukraine - why

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/expertpanel-om-den-ryska-invasionen-av-ukraina - 2025-09-03

New article by Ted Svensson and Agnes Cornell on the introduction of merit reforms in nineteenth-century Britain and its possible colonial origins. In a newly published article in Governance, Ted Svensson (together with Agnes Cornell) explores whether the inspiration to reform the British Civil Service, along the lines suggested in the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan Report, was drawn from the introducti

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ted-svensson-and-agnes-cornell-introduction-merit-reforms-nineteenth-century-britain - 2025-09-03

I artikeln jämförs två tillvägagångssätt för transnationell humanitär återhämtning som italienska organisationer använde sig av för barn som drabbades av kärnkraftskatastroferna i Tjernobyl och Fukushima. Det första tillvägagångssättet var hemvistelse och det andra - lägervistelse. Med hjälp av djupintervjuer med barn och deras föräldrar från Belarus och Japan samt rapporter från icke-statliga org

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/kroniska-kriser-och-humanitara-insatser-vid-karnkraftskatastrofer-som-tjernobyl-och-fukushima - 2025-09-03

Photo: Philipp Montenegro The IIIEE had the honour of receiving the ambassador of New Zealand and to share some insights from ongoing research. On 16 April the Ambassador of New Zealand visited Lund University. Ambassador David Taylor met with the Vice Chancellor Erik Renström.Mr. Taylor also came over to learn more about the IIIEE in particular. The ambassador was introduced to the research and e

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ambassador-new-zealand-visits-iiiee - 2025-09-03

Photo: Philipp Montenegro The Naturescapes project gathered around 30 partners and researcher to come to the IIIEE for a project Kick-off and to start the thought-processes on how new kinds of NATURESCAPES can generate transformative change for the future. This week marks the grande Kick-off for the new research project Naturescapes! The Naturescapes project team met at the IIIEE for the general a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/project-kick-discuss-how-naturescapes-can-create-long-term-solutions - 2025-09-03

The collaboration initiative Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy together with the municipality of Lund, hosted a seminar on financing transformative change. Held in the IIIEE Aula, the event gathered representatives from cities, academia, and society, who joined the conversation on how energy communities can become a part of a sustainability transition. During the seminar, Fedra Vanhuyse (

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/financing-transformative-change - 2025-09-03

The collaboration initiative Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy together with the City of Malmö arranges a workshop on the topic of citizen engagement. The program offers inspirational talks, researcher presentations, panels, and joint conversations. Welcome to join! When: 16 maj 2024, 10:30-16:00Where: STUDIO MeetingpointNordenskiöldsgatan 24, MalmöRegister your participation and any diet

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/workshop-citizen-engagement-climate-transition - 2025-09-03

Industrial policy is seeing a revival, but it does hardly address Circular Economy. New research from IIIEE, published in Sustainable Production and Consumption, shows how the necessary circular transition in industry can be supported by new types of industrial policies. This exploratory contribution aims to gain an understanding on how an industrial policy for Circular Economy (CE) transition in

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-shows-how-circular-economy-can-be-supported-new-industrial-policies - 2025-09-03

A group of researchers and teachers from the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Ukraine visited IIIEE to discuss and exchange academic insights. Yesterday, four academic colleagues from Ukraine visited the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) to share knowledge and foster research and educational collaborations. Our guests came from the Department of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ukrainian-university-visited-iiiee-share-knowledge-and-foster-research-and-educational - 2025-09-03

Students from the 30th batch of the EMP program at the IIIEE will be part of the Lund University delegation to the Bonn Climate Conference (SB60) this Summer, translating knowledge into practice. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gasses. It provides a framework countries can follow to coll

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-sends-iiiee-student-delegates-un-climate-conference - 2025-09-03