Published 6 December 2014 Roger Hildingsson defended his dissertation "Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change" yesterday in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Roger HildingssonDiscussant: Professor James Meadowcroft.AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for prog

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Published 20 December 2014 Annika Fredén writes about the government crisis on the international election blog "Making Electoral Democracy Work". The post is authored together with Elina Lindgren and Patrik Öhberg at Gothenburg University. Read post: Sweden: An unprecedented crisis in a (lost?) political stability heavenAnnika Fredén

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Published 21 December 2014 Two postdoc positions with STANCE (Lund). Apply by 2015-02-20. The project STANCE (State-Making and the Origins of Global Order in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond) announces a call for two postdocs in Political Science with a Specialization in Comparative Politics and/or International Relations.Read more.   

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Published 22 December 2014 Eden will be completely closed on the following days: Christmas Eve 24 December - Sunday, 28 December. New Year's Eve 31 December and New Year's Day 1 January 2015. Opening hours over the winter holiday.The main entrance is open:Monday, 29 December between 10 and 12. The main entrance is open to students with a LU-Card:Tuesday, 23 December 7:30 - 18:00Monday, 29 December

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Published 23 January 2015 Jonna Pettersson defended her dissertation "Incalculable Community" today at one o'clock in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. External reviewer: Associate professor Lars Toender, University of Melbourne.Jonna Pettersson  AbstractThis thesis argues that the Western thinking of political community has assumed the community to require a unity or unifyi

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Published 28 December 2014 The Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science is organising its spring conference in Stockholm 19-20 March 2015. This year's theme is: Change and Continuity in Transatlantic Relations.

 SNES Spring Conference 2015

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Published 1 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström and Jakob Skovgaard have penned the article "Previewing Paris 2015: The EU's ‘Leadiator’ Role in Future Climate Change Negotiations" published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online, "the flagship publication of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service".Together with their online-version the journal publishes articles

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Published 2 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Martin Hall (2014) have written the article ’Cooperation and Conflict’, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 26:4. Learn more.    

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Published 3 January 2015 The Department of Political Science (University of Gothenburg) announces the availability of six fully funded doctoral student positions. Apply by March 2. Learn more...

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Published 5 January 2015 Welcome to the Department of Political Science, Spring term 2015 Follow this link to find relevant information about the courses on offer in English, spring term 2015.

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Published 7 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored “The Nordic States and Gender Cosmopolitanism” published in the DIIS conference proceedings Nordic Foreign and Security Policy, Danish Institute for International Studies. December 2014.Learn more.  

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Published 8 January 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Catarina Kinnvall gave a presentation yesterday for The Tony Blair Foundation on the theme 'Hinduism as a Transnational Force' at a workshop in Pristina, Kososvo. The theme of the workshop was ’Religion and Conflict: Practical Policy Responses’ (An intensive training course for diplomats, public officials and professionals on faith and globalization).L

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Published 11 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has written Women, Peace and Security - and Denmark published by Danish Institute for International Studies, 2014. Learn more. 

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Published 9 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Sara Kalm has, together with Sofia Näsström, penned the article ”A democratic critique of precarity” which has recently been published in the journal Global Discourse. Learn more.

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Published 13 January 2015 Sara Kalm has written a review of the book Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, ed. Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The review is published in the journal Nordic Journal of Migration Research, no. 4 2014. Learn more.  

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Published 15 January 2015 Erik Ringmar's article criticizing the use of the concept of practices in the study of international relations is now the most downloaded article in International Theory. Learn more.

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Published 16 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Johannes Stripple has co-written 'Virtuous Carbon' in the new book 'The Politics of Carbon Markets' (Routledge). Learn more.  

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Published 18 January 2015 The scientific journal Cooperation and Conflict celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special issue with free access online. The first copy is out now:Nordic Peace Research in International Relations 50th Anniversary Online Collection  

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Published 19 January 2015 Mats Fred will be carrying out research studies in Wellington, New Zealand for three months thanks to the Political Science department's involvement in the EU project KEEENZ. His PhD concerns the projectification of the public sector and Mats Fred is planning to do field work in Wellington. During his stay (3 months) he will also visit Auckland University.While in Welling

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Published 21 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard’s article has been published online. “Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States”. World Development, Volume 68, April 2015, Pages 149-162 Jonathan Pickering, Jakob Skovgaard, Soyeun Kim, J. Timmons Roberts, David Rossati, Martin Stadelmann, Hendrikje Reich.Learn more.

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