Published 4 March 2024 Foreign ministers are prominent actors in foreign affairs, often second only to heads of government in their influence. Yet, despite the growing awareness of the importance of key actors in the study of international relations, foreign ministers remain understudied. In a recently published book, Bäck and colleagues present an original dataset on the background of foreign min

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-foreign-ministers-hanna-back-alejandro-quiroz-flores-and-jan-teorell - 2025-01-06

Published 7 March 2024 In 1974, Sweden got a new Instrument of government which will be celebrated in the Swedish Riksdag on March 6. Leading scholars from law and political science have approached the new rules from different perspectives that compose a new edition that will be presented during the seminar. Annika Fredén is one of the contributors, with a chapter on the Swedish electoral system w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-freden-participates-new-anthology-instrument-government-celebrates-50-years - 2025-01-06

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 22 March 2024 Climate change, gender and peace are closely linked, according to Agenda 2030 Award winner Christie Nicoson's research. She is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science and part of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Sara Håkansson While we are inundated with data on rising temperatures, ca

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-student-christie-nicoson-agenda-2030-award-winner-2024 - 2025-01-06

Published 26 March 2024 Doctoral student Jana Wrange, Department of Political Science, Lund University. ‘Outsider’ socialization: Sweden’s interactions with NATO in civil defence prior to membershipABSTRACTThis study assesses the impact of NATO socialization upon an ’outsider’ country, using Sweden in the area of civil defence as a case study. Relying on 33 interviews from 2020 and 2022 with civil

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jana-wrange-has-published-article-interactions-nato-area-swedens-civil-defence-prior-countrys - 2025-01-06

Published 2 April 2024 This year, researchers from the Department of Political Science participate in several different events during Sustainability Week! Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and Lund Municipality invite you to a week of activities around sustainability! It is a week of discussion and action, serious questions and hopeful visions of the future. 9 April 13:0

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-scientists-sustainability-week-lund-2024 - 2025-01-06

Published 11 April 2024 Isabel Bramsen is the recipient of this year's Diploma Prize. The prize is worth DKK 150,000 and is awarded to young people who are expected to make a valuable contribution to Danish society. Congratulations Isabel! About the award winner and motivationIn the world we live in, the Hartmann Foundation believes that it is important to stimulate the work for peace and conflict

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/isabel-bramsen-receives-hartmann-foundations-diploma-award - 2025-01-06

Published 12 April 2024 Jana Wrange and Rikard Bengtsson have together with Douglas Brommesson (Linneaus University) published the article "Resilience through total defence: Towards a shared security culture in the Nordic–Baltic region?" in European Journal of International Security. The article departs from an analysis of conceptualizations of total defence and resilience among the Nordic and Bal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-and-bengtsson-security-culture-nordic-baltic-region - 2025-01-06

Published 18 April 2024 Ian Manners’s lead intervention article in the forthcoming special issue of Cooperation and Conflict is online first open access on 'Normative power in the planetary organic crisis'. The lead intervention article argues that the new reality of the planetary organic crisis awaits a normative critical social theory of planetary politics, a means of understanding the sharing o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-mannerss-research-normative-power-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-01-06

Published 26 April 2024 Doctor Christie Nicoson is celebrated at The Department of Political Science, Lund University! Christie Nicoson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Peace in a Changing Climate: Caring and Knowing the Climate-Gender-Peace Nexus'. Congratulations! AbstractScholars and practitioners argue that climate change poses particular challenges for peace. In order to underst

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/christie-nicoson-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-01-06

Published 3 May 2024 Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard och doctoral student Evan Drake at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Subsidies to fossil fuels – oil, coal and gas – are notoriously difficult to reform with global subsidy levels reaching a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a new article, Evan Drake and Jakob Skovgaard study how two political institutions, corporatism and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/can-political-institutions-insulate-against-political-backlash-when-dismantling-fossil-fuel - 2025-01-06

Published 17 May 2024 PhD defense in Political Science: Caroline Karlsson with external reviewer: Associate Professor Andreja Zevnik, University of Manchester. Photo. Caroline Karlsson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Prohibitive Condition: The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders'. Congratulations! AbstractThis dissertation explores the political natu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/caroline-karlsson-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-01-06

Published 16 May 2024 The Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the premier EU-studies journal, has just published a 20th Anniversary Symposium on Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The symposium develops the ideas of the original 2002 JCMS article by introducing the arrival of normative power in planetary politics. ‘Planetary politics’ are characterised by truly planetary relati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-contributes-20th-anniversary-symposium-arrival-normative-power-planetary-politics - 2025-01-06

Published 20 May 2024 Doctoral student Esther Calvo and Professor Hanna Bäck. Radical right populist parties have often been treated as “pariahs,” being excluded from coalition politics in parliamentary democracies. How can we study this type of distancing behavior? We argue that negative rhetoric targeted at radical right populist parties in legislative debates is used by the established parties

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/calvo-back-carroll-pariah-parties-and-changing-elite-rhetoric-swedish-riksdag - 2025-01-06

Published 21 May 2024 Professor emeritus Ole Elgström and Associate Professor Malena Rosén Sundström, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström has published the article “A European Feminist Foreign and Security Policy? Norm Contestation and Norm Negotiations in the European Parliament” in International Negotiation. The article investigates the negot

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-rosen-sundstrom-negotiation-process-which-led-resolution-gender-equality-eus-foreign - 2025-01-06

Published 29 May 2024 Mats Fred, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Mats Fred and Alexander Paulsson write about two public transport authorities (PTA) who went from procuring IT and digital services to build in-house IT-capacity to gain power and control over “the digital”. Through a study of app making, this study shows that digital sovereignty is not only about controlling softwa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digital-sovereignty-and-public-authorities-efforts-byte-back - 2025-01-06

Published 30 May 2024 Professor Catarina Kinnvall and Associate Professor Ted Svensson, Department of Political Science, Lund University. AbstractThis article takes as its point of departure the postcolonial understanding of the nation as a subject constructed through the colonial encounter. It argues that at the core of both colonial and postcolonial subject formations lies a desire for reconstru

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-hunger-certainty-misrecognition-masculinity-and-agentic-action - 2025-01-06

Published 31 January 2023 During the last days of January, around 50 PhD students from four countries met to discuss the forest's past, present and future. A key insight was that ongoing research is far broader than how it’s often portrayed in the general forest debate. Participants from 10 universities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland went from large-scale to microscopic in discussions from

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forest-research-beyond-disciplines-navigating-forest-landscape - 2025-01-06

Published 2 February 2023 Elsa Hedling has authored the article ‘Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats’ recently published in Emotions and Society. The article analyses how diplomats perceive the demands of digital diplomacy and how emotions are engaged in their efforts to perform competently both online and offline. The findings suggest that the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-emotional-labour-digital-diplomacy - 2025-01-06

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 9 February 2023 Markus Holdo in front of the town Anghiari in Tuscany during fieldwork. Photo: Markus Holdo. ...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? –  Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-01-06

Published 21 February 2023 Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-01-06