Published 5 April 2022 CMES scholar Pinar Dinc has authored "Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan", available online (open access) in The Commentaries. Environmental degradation is identified as a key factor that threatens the future of life on Earth, but such generalised reading entails that conceal the uneven effects of environmental degradation. When environmental degradation takes

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/environmental-racism-and-resistance-kurdistan - 2025-04-19

Published 6 April 2022 CMES scholar Lina Eklund has co-authored the article "Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology” together with Ole Magnus Theisen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Matthias Baumann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Andreas Forø Tollefsen (Peace Research Institute Oslo), Tobias Kue

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/effects-drought-agriculture-pre-war-syria - 2025-04-19

Published 11 April 2022 The Pufendorf Institute at Lund University has produced a short video about the the research theme "Hydrosolidarity 2.0: Ethics and Conflict Resolution in International Water Governance." Participating from CMES are Researcher Dalia Abdel Hady, Director Karin Aggestam and Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/want-learn-more-about-hydrosolidarity-and-conflict-resolution-middle-east - 2025-04-19

Published 12 April 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Urban Flood-Risk Assessment: Integration of Decision-Making and Machine Learning" together with Fereshteh Taromideh (Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University), Ramin Fazloula (Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University), Bahram Choubin (West Azarbaijan Agricultural and Nat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/urban-flood-risk-assessment-through-machine-learning-iran - 2025-04-19

Published 13 April 2022 CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Can Potato Crop on Sandy Soil Be Safely Irrigated with Heavy Metal Polluted Water?" together with Tarek Selim (Port Said University), Samah M. Elkefafy (Suez Canal University), Mohamed Elkiki (Port Said University), and Ahmed A. El-kharbotly (Suez Canal University). The article is available in the journal Wa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/crop-irrigation-heavy-metal-polluted-water-egypt - 2025-04-19

Published 14 April 2022 New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest iss

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-27 - 2025-04-19

Published 10 February 2025 How should the Russian war against Ukraine reshape the way we teach International Relations (IR) and European Union (EU) studies? In a groundbreaking new article, Professor Ian Manners argues that Ukraine serves as a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift—one that moves beyond traditional IR frameworks to embrace planetary politics. Published as the lead article in a speci

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rethinking-international-relations-russian-war-against-ukraine-and-shift-planetary-politics - 2025-04-19

Published 20 February 2025 Associate Professor Magdalena Bexell, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors that are organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry. This industry links states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Employing concepts from organizational theory and the study

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2025-04-19

Published 24 February 2025 External Reviewer Associate Professor Marco Viera, University of Birmingham and now Doctor Maysam Behravesh. Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Political Psychology of Revisionist Behavior in World Politics: State Subjectivity, Ontological (In)Security, and Iranian Foreign Policy'. Congratulations Doctor Maysam! AbstractDriven by a core curio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-04-19

Published 3 March 2025 Professor Ian Manners has received a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant to spend 2025 working at the University of Bristol to complete a book on The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The research book analyses the EU relations with the rest of the planet through from the end of the Cold War in 1990 until the end of the sabbatical in 2025.The foc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-manners-receives-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatical-grant-writing-book-european-unions - 2025-04-19

Published 5 March 2025 The journal Global Intellectual History has just published a forum on Jens Bartelson’s latest book Becoming International (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The forum has been edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen and features contributions by Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, Or Rosenboim, and Ayşe Zarakol. Here is the introduction:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forum-jens-bartelsons-becoming-international-global-intellectual-history - 2025-04-19

Published 10 March 2025 This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war.  From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-production-gendered-knowledge-war-women-and - 2025-04-19

Published 20 March 2025 This book explores how women in societies plagued by ethno-national conflict can help build peace and gender equality, even in places where deep divisions have existed for generations. It uses an approach called transversal politics to analyse how women from different communities in Northern Ireland work together across an ethno-national divide to build coalitions on shared

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-linda-eitrem-holmgren-gender-just-political-citizenship-and-peacebuilding-northern-ireland - 2025-04-19

Published 9 April 2025 Pinar Dinc, Associate Professor and one of the editors of the book. The book ‘The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and Beyond’ explores the Republic of Turkey’s unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically analyse the broader historic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-book-republic-turkey-and-its-unresolved-issues - 2025-04-19

Published 15 April 2025 Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between government ministers and NGOs. Their findings reveal striking inequalities in who gets access to political decision-makers. Our findings reveal stark inequalities in who gets t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-gets-hearing-intersectionality-ngos-and-political-access-decision-makers - 2025-04-19

Published 25 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-19

Published 24 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-19

Published 24 November 2014 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 inter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2025-04-19

Published 18 November 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2025-04-19

Published 16 November 2014 Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. This new polit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2025-04-19