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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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-presents-external-dimensions-european-unions-autocracy-crisis-swedish-eu - 2026-08-19

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 - 2026-08-19

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 - 2026-08-19

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 - 2026-08-19

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 - 2026-08-19

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 - 2026-08-19

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 - 2026-08-19

Sara Kalm is one of the co-authors of the article “Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons” which has recently been published. The article, which presents a new data set, has Margaret E. Peters (UCLA) as lead author, and the other co-authors are Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall (Gothenburg University) and Adrian Shin (University of Colorado: Boulder). AbstractIn recent years, scholar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-introducing-novel-historical-immigration-policy-dataset-sara-kalm-and-others - 2026-08-19

In the 2022 Swedish General Election, the Liberal party was in danger of not reaching parliamentary representation, but finally succeeded to make it to parliament. How opinion polls affect this kind of voting is the focus in a new publication by Annika Fredén together with colleagues at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, published in International Journal of Public Opinion Research (IJPOR)

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-strategic-voting-threshold-parties - 2026-08-19

Laura Landorff and Anders Uhlin have authored the article “Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? Exploring capital gains through boundary crossing”, recently published in European Politics and Society. Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? The article addr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/landorff-and-uhlin-economic-and-political-elites-eu-civil-society - 2026-08-19

Professor Ian Manners has just published the concluding article on ‘Political psychology of emotions in European Union foreign policy in times of ontological (in)security and crisis’ in a special issue of the Journal of European Integration edited by Seda Gürkan and  Özlem Terzi on The role of emotions in EU foreign policy.Professor Manners’ concluding article argues that understanding when and ho

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/concluding-article-special-issue-political-psychology-emotions-european-union-foreign-policy-times - 2026-08-19

Despite 15 years of international commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, global subsidies reached a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a recent article for npj Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake and their co-authors call for a new approach that includes time-bound roadmaps, closing loopholes, and offering support to lower-income countries. The authors argue that current

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-approach-needed-address-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2026-08-19

I denna artikel studeras innovationsarbete i offentlig sektor och hur olika aktörer – kommuner, konsulter, akademiker, finansiärer och frivilligorganisationer - skapar och sprider gemensamma berättelser om en illa fungerande offentlig sektor i behov av att ”öppna upp” för nya typer av aktörer, tjänster och kunskap. Genom berättelserna kan vitt skilda aktörstyper (ex. riskkapitalister och NGOs) kny

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vilka-arbetar-innovation-i-offentlig-sektor-och-hur-gor-dom-det - 2026-08-19

This article examines public sector innovation and how different actors – municipalities, consultants, academics, financiers, and non-profit organizations – create and distribute stories about a poorly functioning public sector in need of "opening up" to new types of actors, services, and knowledge. Despite differences, the actors involved narrate their world similarly constituting coalitions that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/promoting-public-sector-innovation-who-does-what-when-and-how - 2026-08-19

Inclusion has become somewhat of a standard formula when trying to create political order in the transition from war to peace. But how does inclusion come into play in practice? In the article, Inclusivity in Practice: Patchworks of Inclusion at Multiple Tracks in the Colombian Peace Process, Bramsen and Strömbom investigate the inclusion/multi-track nexus in the Colombian peace process and show h

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/inclusivity-practice-patchworks-inclusion-multiple-tracks-colombian-peace-process - 2026-08-19

Anna Wieslander has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Transatlantic Transitions: Responses to the Russian Threat in the Baltic Sea Region, 2014–2020'. Congratulations! AbstractThe overall aim of this thesis is to explore alliance formation and management in a regional setting, by analyzing responses to the Russian threat in the Baltic Sea region during the years 2014–2020. In particular,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anna-wieslander-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-08-19

This chapter explores feminist activism during and after the so-called Arab Spring, a transformative event that brought new challenges and a new political environment for feminist activists. At first, the overthrow of old regimes raised hopes for a more open and liberated society, but these hopes did not last long. Feminist organizations in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia have faced state repr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/abdelmoez-digital-feminist-practice-during-and-after-arab-spring - 2026-08-19

Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Nature of Peace and the Continuum of Violence in Environmental Conflicts'. Congratulations! AbstractIn this dissertation, I aim to explore the links between nature, conflict, and peace building on literature from peace and conflict studies and environmental peacebuilding. I argue that environmental issues, especially rel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/barbara-magalhaes-teixeira-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-08-19

Isabel Bramsen has published a new chapter on the role of emotions and emotional energy in conflict, repression and violence in The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations. AbstractEmotions play a significant role in shaping human interaction, not least in the context of conflict and violence. This chapter delves into the intricate interplay between emotional energy, protest, repres

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-role-emotions-and-emotional-energy-conflict-repression-and-violence - 2026-08-19

The book “Peace and the Politics of Memory”, Manchester University Press, co-authored with Johanna Mannergren, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler and Timothy Williams provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a theoretical approach focusing on the intersection of sites, agency, narratives,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-et-al-peace-and-politics-memory - 2026-08-19