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Carlo Knotz defended his dissertation “Forcing the Unemployed to Work: Essays on the Politics of Unemployment Benefit Reform in Affluent Democracies" today at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Getting Tough on Unemployment: Essays on the politics of unemployment benefit reform in affluent democraciesCarlo Knotz’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/carlo-knotz-has-defended-his-thesis - 2026-01-01

Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (UI), Stefanie Kappler (Durham University) and Susanne Buckley-Zistel (Marburg University) received a research grant for the project ”Peace and the Politics of Memory”. The project "Peace and the Politics of Memory" investigates how a post-conflict society harbours conflicting memories and experiences and how the making of memory is c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/research-grant-peace-and-politics-memory - 2026-01-01

Hanna Bäck is one of the authors of the article ”Multiparty government and economic policy-making. Coalition agreements, prime ministerial power and spending in Western European Cabinets” which has been published in the journal Public Choice. AbstractMultiparty government has often been associated with poor economic policy-making, with distortions like lower growth rates and high budget deficits.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-governments-and-policy-making - 2026-01-01

Kurtis Boyer and Fabio Cristiano will be talking at ISVW in Netherlands on November 12-13. They will talk about their article on drone warfare and humane meat as representations of the politics of empathy. Learn more on isvw.nlKurtis Boyer’s personal pageFabio Cristiano’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/outreach-animal-politics - 2026-01-01

The Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, has appointed Annika Bergman Rosamond as External Examiner for the Politics Programme for the academic years 2016-2019. Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-appointed-external-examiner-maynooth-university - 2026-01-01

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have authored the article ”Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals”, published in Forum for Development Studies. The article can be found on tandfonline.comAbstract:This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bexell-and-jonsson-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-01-01

Early diagnosis is key to receiving proper care and advancing research on future therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies. New research from Skåne University Hospital and Lund University shows that combining a simple smell test with advanced spinal fluid analysis can predict these diseases with high accuracy, while sparing nearly half of patients f

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/smell-test-cuts-need-invasive-parkinsons-screening - 2026-01-01

Ole Elgström was the external examiner at the University of Bath. The thesis, written by Magdalena Nasieniak, examined the changes that have taken place in the role of the Council Presidency post-Lisbon, with an emphasis on the Presidency's role in EU foreign policy. Notably, the supervisor was Leslie Wehner, who graduated from our Master of European Affairs-programme in 2006.Ole Elgström's person

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-visited-bath-thesis-eu-foreign-policy - 2026-01-01

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Sebhatu writes about Gender-Just Peace and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu has recently authored the article “Reaching Higher: Women Liberators and Gender” which was published in the Horn of Africa Bulletin of the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala (November-December 2016 Vol. 28, Issue 6).This paper calls on women, peace and secu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reaching-higher-women-liberators-and-gender - 2026-01-01

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Douglas Brommesson has published a new book together with Ann-Marie Ekengren at the University of Gothenburg called The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-making and Humanitarian Intervention and published by Palgrave Macmillan. More information about the book is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137544605This book provides a systematic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/foreign-policy-adjusting-media-logic - 2026-01-01

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has, together with Natalia Chaban and Olga Gulyaeva, authored the article "Russian images of the European Union: Before and after Maidan", now published by Foreign Policy Analysis. Abstract:This article probes into scope conditions for image change, investigating what changes in Russian images of the European Union (EU) have taken place as a result of the Rus

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/russian-images-european-union - 2026-01-01

Lisa Strömbom was promoted to Associate Professor at the board meeting of the Faculty of Social Sciences on the 2nd of February. Lisa Strömbom conducts research on topics such as identity politics and conflict transformation in intrastate conflicts and cities, with a special focus on Israel-Palestine, and teaches peace and conflict studies.Lisa Strömbom’s personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-promoted-associate-professor - 2026-01-01

The globally leading academic association on international relations ISA elected our researcher Fariborz Zelli to their Governing Council last week.  ISA, the International Studies Association, has over 6,500 members grouped in thematic sections. At the ISA annual convention in Baltimore last week, Fariborz Zelli was elected by his colleagues as chair of the environmental studies section for a two

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fariborz-zelli-elected-isa-governing-council - 2026-01-01

Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have published a Special Issue with the journal Cooperation and Conflict, entitled ’Ontological Security and World Politics’. Catarina has also an article in the same issue, entitled: ’Feeling Ontologically (In)secure: States, traumas and the governing of gendered space’. "A few years ago, as we began a conversation about ontological security, we were struck b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ontological-security-approach-security-and-identity-world-politics - 2026-01-01

Jakob Skovgaard is co-editor of and contributing to a special edition of the journal "International Environmental Agreements" entitled "Managing fragmentation and complexity in the emerging system of international climate finance". The special edition addresses which factors have influenced how financing for climate action in developing countries (climate financing) is governed, and how it could b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-special-edition-fragmentation-climate-financing - 2026-01-01

OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell is on a fellowship sponsored by the EU Center on Shared Complex Challenges at University of Melbourne and gave a talk to Australian Policy makers in Canberra on 'Green Industrial Transitions in line with Climate Objectives' Thursday March 16. Annica Kronsell's personal page.Visit the website of the University of Melbourne, where Annica Kronsell is a Visting Fell

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kronsell-spoke-canberra-about-green-industrial-transitions - 2026-01-01

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Per Andersson has published an article in the journal Studies in Comparative International Development. AbstractDuring the last two centuries, taxation has not only increased dramatically in level and volume; its structure has also changed: from a heavy reliance on customs revenue in the early nineteenth century to a stronger emphasis on income taxation in the twentieth.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-urbanization-and-tax-revenue - 2026-01-01

OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond’s keynote ”Cities and Citizens for Peace - The Importance of Dialogue” at the opening of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre, 7th October 2016 is now available online. The objective of the opening of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre at the University of Iceland is to support Reykjavik in its mission of becoming a city of peace, and to advise on how Reykjavik can promote peac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/watch-annika-bergman-rosamond-talk-about-celebraty-humanitarianism - 2026-01-01

OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell gave a talk on ‘Gender perspectives on Climate Change’ at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday 22nd March. Annica Kronsell's personal page.Visit the website of the University of Melbourne, where Annica Kronsell is a Visting Fellow.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gave-talk-melbourne-about-gender-perspectives-climate-change - 2026-01-01

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annica Kronsell has co-authored the following two articles, both are available via open access. Together with Anna Kaijser ”Who gets to know about nature? Biodiversity and ecosystem services through an intersectional lens” in Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien.Together with Gunnhildur Magnusdottir ”The double democratic deficit in climate policy-making by the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kronsell-two-new-articles-about-biodiversity-and-climate-policy-making - 2026-01-01