Published 16 June 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Dan Nielsen blogs on LU Sustainability Forum about last weeks UN climate negotiations. The blog post titled “Green light for REDD+” covered a ‘historical’ conclusion of the negotiations on the methodological guidance for UN based mechanism aimed at reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+). Links:“G

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Published 23 June 2015 On June 24, Erik Ringmar holds a lecture in the series "Theorizing Global Order" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Links:“Theorizing Global Order”Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-nomadic-political-theory - 2025-04-19

Published 26 June 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Erik Ringmar's review of "Violent Protest, Contentious Politics and the Neoliberal State,” edited by Seraphim Seferiades & Hank Johnston, has just been published by Contemporary Sociology. Links:The book reviewErik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-reviews-violent-protest-contentious-politics-and-neoliberal-state - 2025-04-19

Published 1 July 2015 Magdalena Bexell has contributed the chapter "The Post-2015 Consultations: Fig Leaf Policy or Test Bed for Innovation?" in the newly published book "Global Trends. Prospects for World Society" Abstract:The United Nations (UN)-led global consultations on new development goals, which will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), started in 2012. In comparison with the c

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Published 16 July 2015 Erik Ringmar's lecture, "Nomadic political theory," at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, on June 24, 2015, is now available online: Links:"Nomadic political theory"Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmars-lecture-nomadic-political-theory-now-available-online - 2025-04-19

Published 21 July 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic have published ”'Global' Norms and ’Local' Agency: Frictional Peacebuilding in Kosovo" in Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract:This article explores how the ‘liberal democratic peace package’ is received in post-conflict spaces. As such, it is part of a critical peace research agenda that raise

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-gusic-problems-liberal-peacebuilding - 2025-04-19

Published 26 July 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Greener than expected? EU finance ministries address climate finance" in the journal Environmental Politics. Abstract:Climate finance constitutes an integral part of the European Union’s climate policy. Yet, climate policy is increasingly addressed by non-environmental institutions. In examining the transfe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-eu-climate-policy - 2025-04-19

Published 3 August 2015 Annika Bergman Rosamond presented her research on Celebrity Interventionism at the Centre for International Intervention, Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK, 23 July 2015. Link:Narratives of Intervention: Perspectives from North and South

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-presents-her-research - 2025-04-19

Published 4 August 2015 The department is currently hosting two respectable journals. And both of them are doing well under the stewardship. Both "Cooperation and Conflict", edited by Annika Björkdahl, Martin Hall, Ted Svensson, Lisa Strömbom and Maysam Behravesh, and "Political Psychology", edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Hanna Bäck, have increased their impact factors and climbed in the rankings

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/journals-hosted-department-increase-impact-factors - 2025-04-19

Published 10 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has written the article "Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe", recently published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Abstract:In this article I analyze how far right movements and parties in Europe are challenging European notions of open borders and the freedom of movement through activ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-european-far-right - 2025-04-19

Published 29 August 2024 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. riskk

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vilka-arbetar-innovation-i-offentlig-sektor-och-hur-gor-dom-det - 2025-04-19

Published 29 August 2024 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 con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/promoting-public-sector-innovation-who-does-what-when-and-how - 2025-04-19

Published 2 September 2024 Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen. 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 inclusio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/inclusivity-practice-patchworks-inclusion-multiple-tracks-colombian-peace-process - 2025-04-19

Published 9 September 2024 Anna Wieslander and external reviewer Professor Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen, during the dissertation at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Anna Wieslander has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Transatlantic Transitions: Responses to the Russian Threat in the Baltic Sea Region, 2014–2020'. Congratulations! Dr. Anna Wieslander receive

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anna-wieslander-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-19

Published 16 September 2024 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 T

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/abdelmoez-digital-feminist-practice-during-and-after-arab-spring - 2025-04-19

Published 20 September 2024 Barbara Magalhães Teixeira on her dissertation and external reviewer Professor Jan Selby, University of Leeds. 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 peac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/barbara-magalhaes-teixeira-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-19

Published 26 September 2024 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 emoti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-role-emotions-and-emotional-energy-conflict-repression-and-violence - 2025-04-19

Published 30 September 2024 Professor Annika Björkdahl, Department of Political Science, Lund University. 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. I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-et-al-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-04-19

Published 4 October 2024 Visiting political scientists from the University of Denver discuss the upcoming U.S. election with students in a packed auditorium at Eden, moderated by Professor Jonathan Polk. On Thursday, the Eden auditorium was filled with students when the Department of Political Science was visited by researchers from the University of Denver to analyze and discuss the political sit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-house-when-visiting-political-scientists-denver-discussed-upcoming-us-election - 2025-04-19

Published 10 October 2024 To what extent does moderation in ideological positioning by social democratic parties affect their short- and long-term electoral fortunes? This chapter builds on our prior work to further probe whether there is a link between moderation and individual voters’ shifts from social democratic parties at a later point, by considering a larger number of cases and by different

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-and-karreth-new-study-voter-responses-social-democratic-party-ideological-moderation - 2025-04-19