Published 1 February 2021 Johannes Lindvall and Carl Dahlström (University of Gothenburg) has contributed a report to the Danish parliament’s study Managing the Covid-19-Crisis The report, which deals with Sweden’s response to Covid-19, is published as Appendix 4 in the Danish study. An English-language summary is available. Link to the study at ft.dk Johannes Lindvall's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-contributes-danish-report-covid-19 - 2025-04-27

Published 9 February 2021 In an article entitled "Nordic Security and Defence Cooperation: Differentiated Integration in Uncertain Times" Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the development and nature of Nordic security and defence cooperation. The article is part of the thematic issue on "Rediscovering Nordic Cooperation" in the journal Politics and Governance. Link to the publication on cogitatiopress.com

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-nordic-security-and-defence-cooperation - 2025-04-27

Published 12 February 2021 New article in "Foreign Policy Analysis" by Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores. In this study, Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell with colleagues engage in the debate about leadership and foreign policy outcomes by focusing on the tenure of foreign ministers. They ask why some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others. Using

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/war-performance-and-survival-foreign-ministers - 2025-04-27

Published 15 February 2021 In a chapter on ‘European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis’, Ian Manners argues that economic, social, ecological, conflictual, and political crises of the EU are not separate, but part of the same planetary crisis. The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. Th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-european-union-and-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-04-27

Published 16 February 2021 Annika Björkdahl raises the critical question Where does peace take place? in the chapter Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies co-authored with Stefanie Kappler  Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-where-does-peace-take-place - 2025-04-27

Published 17 February 2021 ”Expanding the Reach of the Special Forces with a Gender-Mixed Deep Development Capability (DDC): Identifying Challenges and Lessons Learned” This policy brief examines the development and implementation of a new gender mixed military capability within the Belgian Special Forces Group, including female soldiers in the operational detachment of the unit for the first time

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-nina-wilen - 2025-04-27

Published 18 February 2021 Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the chapter “Gender and Peaceful Change” in the Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations. edited by T.V. Paul et al.  Link to the publication on oxfordhandbooks.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-gender-and-peaceful-change-international-relations - 2025-04-27

Published 1 March 2021 ”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” Isabel Bramsen published a piece on ”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” in Journal of Resistance Studies. The study theorizes the micro-sociological dynamics of conflict and nonviolence as micro-sociological and discusses how nonviolent resistance can d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-situational-power-nonviolence - 2025-04-27

Published 2 March 2021 Annika Björkdahl recently published the chapter Urban Peacebuilding in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies that is applying the lens of the urban to rethink and rescale peacebuilding in post conflict societies. Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-annika-bjorkdahl - 2025-04-27

Published 3 March 2021 Tomas Bergström is one of the editors of a new book published by Palgrave Macmillan on the challenges for local self-government in a number of european countries. "The Future of Local Self- Government. European Trends in Autonomy, Innovations and Central-Local Relations.” He contributes with a chapter on ”The future of local democracy. A somewhat dystopian view”. Link to the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-local-self-government - 2025-04-27

Published 8 March 2021 Do governing parties strategically time welfare benefit cuts and other austerity policies to help them win elections? Hanna Bäck has, together with med Daniel Strobl, Wolfgang Müller and Mariyana Angelova analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of the Western European countries. You can read about their results in the article “Electoral Cycles in Government Policy M

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-timing-austerity-reforms - 2025-04-27

Published 8 March 2021 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catia Gregoratti have recently published the article “Neoliberal turns in global humanitarian governance: corporations, celebrities and the construction of the entrepreneurial refugee woman” in the  Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (Manchester University Press) 2:3, 2021. This article seeks to extend recent debates on how the promotion of self-reli

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-annika-bergman-rosamond-and-catia-gregoratti - 2025-04-27

Published 8 March 2021 Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the article “Political leadership and gendered multilevel games in foreign policy” published Open Access in the journal International Affairs. Link to the article on academic.oup.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Jacqui True’s homepage

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-political-leadership-and-gendered-multilevel-games-foreign-policy - 2025-04-27

Published 15 March 2021 "Achieving a Feminist Peace by Blurring Boundaries between Private and Public” The article is published in the book “A Requiem for Peacebuilding?" Link to the publication on springer.com Nina Wilén’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-nina-wilen - 2025-04-27

Published 17 March 2021 How do party cues influence support for a policy proposal? Does it matter whether information on a policy is presented by an in- or outgroup representative? Hanna Bäck has together with Annika Fredén and Emma Renström analyzed this question in a large-scale survey experiment. You can read about their results in the article “Legalize cannabis? Effects of party cues on attitu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-party-cues-and-political-attitudes - 2025-04-27

Published 18 March 2021 'Politicization and EU Development Policy: The Role of External Perceptions. Case of Ukraine' This article highlights the role of external audiences and their perceptions in analysing the politicization of EU development policy. We analyse how EU foreign assistance is understood in two different intermediary arenas of politicization – elites in different societal sectors an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-chaban-external-perceptions-and-politicization-eu-development-policy - 2025-04-27

Published 25 March 2021 Does party system polarization lead to more government crises? Are there institutions that can mitigate such destabilizing effects? Hanna Bäck has together with Henning Bergmann and Thomas Saalfeld analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of 28 European democracies. You can read about their results in the article “Party-system polarisation, legislative institutions

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-polarization-and-government-crises - 2025-04-27

Published 29 March 2021 New teaching material by Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple Our colleagues Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple have recently launched a new teaching material – Beyond the Fossil Society – for high school and upper secondary school. In collaboration with the Swedish Society for Nature Conversation they have devel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/looking-future-world-beyond-fossil-society - 2025-04-27

Published 7 April 2021 In his chapter on ‘Normative Power Approach to European Union External Action, Ian Manners demonstrates how the Normative Power Approach (NPA) to the EU sets out a radically different means of studying and changing planetary politics The NPA uses normative theory, theories of explanation and understanding, and practical theories, all at the same time. The chapter clarifies h

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-normative-power-approach-eu-external-action - 2025-04-27

Published 12 April 2021 Johannes Lindvall has, together with Kerstin Enflo and Alexandra L. Cermeño, published the article “Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State” in the journal British Journal of Political Science. The article shows that the coming of the railroad in the middle of the nineteenth century strengthened the nation state vis-à-vis local and parochial interests

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-how-railroad-strengthened-nation-state - 2025-04-27