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...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? – Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas think about politics and development. It became particularly clear after Brexit that there's a lot we don't understand. For example, it's interesting, and some might say paradoxical,
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2026-09-09
Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. To the chapter “C
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2026-09-09
Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska just published a chapter in Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States about the democratic potential of politically and socially oriented civil society organizations in North Macedonia. Let us find out more – here are some questions to Milka: For someone who is not familiar with the subject, what is the current democratic situation in that region now
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2026-09-09
Professor Ian Manners, who is also due to be inaugurated as a professor tomorrow, teaches alongside Joel Abdelmoez on the course Political Cinéma. – Why Cinéma and not Cinema? – The course is called political cinéma to remind us that ‘cinéma’ is both the production and projection of films. In 1895 the Lumière brothers first used the cinématographe motion picture system (a camera, projector, and f
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ian-manners-lets-hear-little-about-new-course-political-cinema - 2026-09-09
The report published by EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance, and Democracy, argues that European Union challenges and crises of the past decade, including the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, refugees, ethno-nationalist/Brexit movements, COVID-19, and Russian invasion of Ukraine are part of a planetary organic crisis (POC) of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity. The recognition of the s
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-achieving-european-communion-planetary-organic-crisis - 2026-09-09
This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relation
Interest groups and political parties are the primary organizational carriers of citizens’ preferences into executive and legislative political institutions. Their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. We address this gap via an original cross-national survey of interest groups, which includes the self-placement of groups on the Left-Right and Gal-Tan dimens
Professor Ian Manners presents on ‘The External Dimensions of the European Union’s Autocracy Crisis’ to the Swedish EU Presidency Conference on 'The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions', Stockholm, 17 April. The conference is co-organized by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies; the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies; the Centre for European Research and the School of
Plastics and other petrochemicals are rapidly expanding. Academic and political attention has focused on the consumption of plastics, but in a new Open Access article with the journal Global Environmental Change, Jakob Skovgaard and his co-authors explore the financing of petrochemical production. A key finding is that public finance plays an important role in expanding petrochemical production gl
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-co-authors-explore-financing-petrochemical-production - 2026-09-09
In their just published book, ‘Coalition Agreements as Control Devices - Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe’, Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck, and Svenja Krauss provide the first comprehensive content analysis of coalition agreements across a range of parliamentary democracies in Western and Eastern Europe. They show that coalition parties systematically use coalition agreements to contro
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kluver-back-krauss-new-book-coalition-agreements-control-devices - 2026-09-09
In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green transition worldwide. Hyeyoon Park examines China’s role in glo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2026-09-09
Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the chapter ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” in the ”Handbook of feminist governance”, edited by Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J. Read more about Handbook of Feminist Governance here on Edward Elgar Publishing's site. To Karin Aggestam's personal page.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-feminist-governance-foreign-policy - 2026-09-09
Catarina Kinnvall and co-author Pasko Kisić-Merino have recently published their article ‘Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy’ in Theory & Psychology, vol. 33, issue 2. Abstract This article is concerned with the psychological dimensions of deglobalization and white supremacy as related to fantasies of “whiteness.” The (re)construction of narratives and myths are contes
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-kisic-merino-deglobalization-and-political-psychology-white-supremacy - 2026-09-09
Anders Uhlin has together with Soetkin Verhaegen written the article “Elites’ (De)legitimation Practices toward International Organizations” published in Global Studies Quarterly. Using unique survey data, the authors analyze how political and societal elites contribute to the legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. Link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad02
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-elites-legitimation-and-delegitimation-international-organizations - 2026-09-09
Att arbeta användarorienterat är i dag ett tydligt krav på svenska välfärdsorganisationer. Patienter, brukare, elever och invånare ska involveras i utformningen av de tjänster som är till för dem. Samtidigt visar både praktik och forskning att detta ofta är svårt att genomföra på djupet. Det är denna utmaning som står i fokus för en ny avhandling som Pernilla Danielsson snart disputerar med. I sin
https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/utmaningar-med-anvandarfokus-i-valfarden-undersoks-i-ny-forskning - 2026-09-09
Intresset för högskolestudier är i år rekordstort i landet och till höstterminen 2026 märks ett ökat söktryck för flera av de utbildningar som ges på Lunds universitet, Campus Helsingborg. När ansökan till högskolan stängde den 15 april hade 11 968 ansökningar kommit in till kandidat- och master/magisterprogram med studieort Helsingborg. Av dessa var 2 569 förstahandsansökningar, vilket innebär en
https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/okat-intresse-lunds-universitets-utbildningar-i-helsingborg - 2026-09-09
Den 23-24 april avgjordes årets upplaga av Retail and Wholesale Challenge, en tävling där universitetsstudenter får ta sig an ett skarpt affärscase från näringslivet. Vinnare blev Devina Chudasama och Alexis Matta, studenter från masterprogrammet i Service management med inriktning mot supply chain management på Campus Helsingborg. Tävlingen arrangeras av Handelsrådet och genomfördes för andra åre
https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/tavling-studenter-med-malet-att-utveckla-handeln-i-staden - 2026-09-09
Helsingborgs Handelsförening har under lång tid varit en partner och stöttat utbildning och forskning på Lunds universitets Campus Helsingborg. Förra året instiftades excellensstipendier för forskare verksamma i REAL – centrum för handel och logistik på Lunds universitet. Den 6 maj var det dags för årets prisutdelning då 15 forskare från Lunds universitet mottog sina stipendier, dessutom avslöjade
https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/helsingborgs-handelsforening-delade-ut-arets-excellensstipendier-till-forskare - 2026-09-09
Om bara några dagar står Helsingborg värd för Sveriges första Natomöte. Men hur påverkas människors känsla av trygghet när globala säkerhetsfrågor plötsligt får en lokal närvaro? Under HBG Live diskuterade forskare och experter hur vi reagerar på oro och osäkerhet – och vad som hjälper oss att stå stadigt när världen skakar. Magnus Lindén, forskare i psykologi vid Lunds universitet, Sara Fridlund,
https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/sa-paverkas-vi-av-ett-osakert-varldslage - 2026-09-09
Den 21–22 maj står Helsingborgs stad värd för ett stort internationellt Natomöte. Under dessa dagar samlas utrikesministrar från Natos medlemsländer i centrala delar av staden. Eftersom mötet är ett omfattande arrangemang med höga säkerhetskrav kommer vissa delar av Helsingborg att påverkas. Framför allt gäller det centrala områden där tillfälliga avspärrningar, begränsad framkomlighet och trafikp
https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/natomote-i-helsingborg-21-22-maj - 2026-09-09
