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Karin Aggestam has been appointed the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations Chair in Commemoration of Samuel Pufendorf. Karin Aggestam’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-appointed-pufendorf-chair - 2025-08-31
Annica Kronsell and Annika Bergman Rosamond participated in the launching workshop of the Feminist Peace Research Network at the University of Tampere, Finland (27-30 June). The next workshop will take place in Lund in 2017. You can read more about the network on their websiteAnnica Kronsell’s personal pageAnnika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feminist-peace-research-network - 2025-08-31
Ole Elgström's article "Norm Advocacy Networks: Nordic and Like-Minded Countries in EU Gender and Development Policy" has been accepted and published electronically by Cooperation and Conflict. The article analyses how informal Member State groupings act to promote their values to fellow Member States. Abstract:This article investigates the informal networks of Member States that are claimed to be
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-how-state-groupings-act-promote-their-values - 2025-08-31
Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored ”The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria” in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford University Press), edited by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne. Learn more on Oxford University Press’s webbsiteKarin Aggestam’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agggestam-and-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2025-08-31
Lisa Strömbom’s article “Counter-conduct in divided cities – resisting urban planning practices in Jerusalem” has been published in Peacebuilding. Abstract:This article explores practices of counter-conduct in Jerusalem. Its aims are threefold: (1) to deepen understandings of how practices of counter-conduct relates to the structures it aims to subvert; (2) to probe how counter-conduct is expresse
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-counter-conduct-jerusalem - 2025-08-31
Cecilia von Schéele defended her dissertation "The void: Urban wasteland as political space" today at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Associate Professor Nils Hertting, Uppsala University.The void: Urban wasteland as political spaceCecilia von Schéele’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cecilia-von-scheele-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-31
Fabio Cristiano presented his work on augmented reality and Pokémon Go at the University of York’s event “Imagining Jerusalem”, in East Jerusalem on September 1. Programme for “Imagining Jerusalem” (PDF)Fabio Cristiano’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cristiano-augmented-reality-and-pokemon-go - 2025-08-31
Roxanna Sjöstedt, Erik Noreen and Jan Ångström have co-authored the article "Why small states join big wars: The case of Sweden in Afghanistan 2002–2014" in International Relations. Abstract:The security behavior of small states has traditionally been explained by different takes of realism, liberalism, or constructivism – focusing on the behavior that aims toward safeguarding sovereignty or engag
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-why-small-states-join-big-wars - 2025-08-31
Karin Aggestam has contributed with a chapter on ”Diplomatic Mediation” in The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy. Learn more on sagepub.comKarin Aggestam's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-diplomatic-mediation - 2025-08-31
The European Union (EU) often presents itself as a champion of LGBTQ rights, promoting equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. However, in a recently published article in a special issue of Journal of Common Market Studies, doctoral student Malte Breiding argues that this work does not always produce the intended outcomes. Breiding explores a surprising twist: as the EU pushe
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/can-eus-push-lgbt-rights-backfire-new-article-malte-breiding-says-it-might - 2025-08-31
Current opinion in environmental sustainability. Halting biodiversity loss requires more than just increased funding – it also demands better governance of how resources are mobilised, allocated, and monitored. A new study in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability reviews recent research on how biodiversity finance actually works. Researchers Jesper Svensson, Julia Qian Mao, and Nils Dros
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-should-own-nature-new-study-examines-governance-biodiversity-finance - 2025-08-31
Professor Annika Björkdahl welcomes the audience to Anne Lene Stein's defence of her dissertation, here with faculty opponent Professor Michael Schulz, University of Gothenburg. Anne Lene Stein has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel'. Congratulations to Dr. Stein! External Reviewer: Professor Mich
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anne-lene-stein-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-31
Stina Melander and Julia Bahner. During the pandemic, many fell through the cracks of the safety net. For people with long Covid, this became painfully clear: they existed – but were not acknowledged. Now, a new study from Lund University shows how ordinary citizens, in the midst of illness, organised digitally and challenged the authorities’ narrative of what Covid really is. When the body gives
In this article, recently published in Acta Sociologica, Mats Fred draws on more than a decade of fieldwork on social investments in Sweden to explore the rise and fall of reforms: How are reforms kept alive? What happens when key actors leave, networks dissolve, and governance priorities shift? In the 2010s, the idea of social investments gained traction as a key to preventive, evidence-based, an
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-investments-swedish-municipalities-rise-and-fall-reform - 2025-08-31
Associate Senior Lecturer Ketevan Bolkvadze, Lund University. (Photo: DAVIS) Ketevan Bolkvadze, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, has published a new article in Governance titled "Corrupt or Repressive? How Political Competition Incentivizes Hybrid Regimes to Subvert Police in Distinct Ways." The study explores how varying levels of political competition in hybrid regimes inf
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-publishes-new-study-police-subversion-hybrid-regimes - 2025-08-31
Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have published a chapter on Sweden’s former Feminist Foreign Policy (2014-2022) and how it was implemented in diplomatic work. The chapter, “To Practice What You Preach: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Diplomatic Work” is part of the book Feminist Climate Policy in
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-and-elgstrom-swedens-former-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-08-31
Ian Manners has edited the twentieth anniversary special issue on ‘Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis', published September 2025. This twentieth anniversary special issue broadens the horizons beyond the 2013 Cooperation and Conflict special issue to develop the normative power approach through a prospective on the use of normative power in addressing the planetary organic crisis. The
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.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2025-08-31
RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2025-08-31
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 interested in comparative politi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2025-08-31
