Published 29 October 2021 Isabel Bramsen has authored the article "Agonistic interaction in practice: laughing, dissensus and hegemony in the Northern Ireland Assembly”, which is available online (open access) in the journal Third World Quarterly. The article is a part of a forthcoming special issue on Agonistic peace, edited by Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen. Read the article on Taylor & Franci

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Published 2 November 2021 Ian Manners has authored the article “Political Psychology of Emotion(al) Norms in European Union Foreign Policy”, which has been published in a special issue from the journal Global Affairs. In the article, Ian Manners argues the need to use political psychology to understand how emotions such as fear, anger, hate and passion fuel the construction of emotional norms in f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/manners-political-psychology-emotional-norms-eu-foreign-policy - 2025-04-21

Published 4 November 2021 Thorsteinn Kristinsson has authored the article “Networks of order in East Asia: Beyond hegemonic theories of the Liberal International Order”, which has been published in the journal International Politics. Read more about the article on Springer Link’s website Thorsteinn Kristinsson’s personal page

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Published 19 November 2021 Rickard Andersson has defended his dissertation "Bridges, Walls, Doors: On Democracy and Nature". The dissertation is about the relation between humans and nature, and the connection between that relation and political order. The dissertation proceeds from a contemporary discussion about the need to rethink democracy and extend it beyond humans. A shortcoming in attempts

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Published 26 November 2021 Maiken Røed has defended her dissertation ”Interest Group Influence on Political Parties in Western Democracies”. The dissertation concerns interest groups’ influence on political parties. Parties are central actors in elections, legislatures and governments and they are an important intermediary between voters and the state in democracies. To better understand how publi

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Published 12 November 2021 Independence referendums are often characterized by a polarized climate, with factions unable to agree on valence issues such as the economic consequences of independence. Are voters willing to update their beliefs in the face of new valence information? It depends, according to a new study authored by Gustav Agneman, published in the European Journal of Political Econom

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/causal-link-between-economic-expectations-and-independence-preferences - 2025-04-21

Published 16 November 2021 The visiting professorship is hosted by the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Political Science. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, professor in political studies at University of Hull (United Kingdom) has been awarded the 2023 Olof Palme visiting professorship. During his time in Sweden, professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor will be active mainly at Lund Un

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/raphael-cohen-almagor-will-be-holder-2023-olof-palme-visiting-professorship - 2025-04-21

Published 18 November 2021 Elsa Hedling has co-authored the article ”Visual diplomacy in virtual summitry: status signalling during the coronavirus crisis”, together with August Danielson (Uppsala university). The article is published Open Access in the journal Review of International Studies. The article departs from the disruption that the transition to videoconferencing has had on the rituals a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-visual-diplomacy-virtual-summitry - 2025-04-21

Published 22 November 2021 Jonathan Polk and other principal investigators of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on Party Positioning have published a new article on the trend file, collecting six waves of the survey data between 1999-2019. The article examines stability and change in party positioning within the European Union, and stresses the increasingly strong relationship between parties’ cultura

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-party-positioning - 2025-04-21

Published 23 November 2021 Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the contribution “Peace and Feminist Foreign Policy” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies  (editors: Oliver Richmond and Gezim Visoka). Read the chapter on Springer Link’s website Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-peace-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-04-21

Published 29 November 2021 Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “Reforming fossil fuel subsidies requires a new approach to setting international commitments” in the journal One Earth. The article argues that international efforts to phase out fossil fuel subsidies can be strengthened by distinguishing between different subsidies, taking into account their climate impacts and the feasibilit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-commitments-reform-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-04-21

Published 30 November 2021 Nina Wilén and Lisa Strömbom have co-authored the article "A Versatile Organisation: Mapping the Military’s Core Roles in a Changing Security Environment" which was recently published open access in European Journal of International Security. The main contribution of the article is a comprehensive mapping and categorization of the military’s different roles and tasks in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-and-strombom-militarys-core-roles - 2025-04-21

Published 2 December 2021 Karin Aggestam has authored the contribution “Third-party Intervention and International Monitoring in the City of Hebron” in the report “The Impact of Third-Party Mechanisms in Conflict Resolution: Lessons Learned from the Temporary International Presence in Hebron” published by the Norwegian Refugee Council. Karin’s contribution analyses the temporary international obse

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-international-peace-monitoring-hebron - 2025-04-21

Published 7 December 2021 Jenny Lorentzen has published a new article in the Journal of Modern African Studies, about the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in Mali. By analysing vertical (between international and local actors) and horizontal (between local actors) friction, the article shows how interactions between different actors shapes the WPS agenda in the Malian c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lorentzen-women-peace-and-security-mali - 2025-04-21

Published 14 December 2021 Ekatherina Zhukova has published an article entitled “Postcolonial Logic and Silences in Strategic Narratives: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Conflict-Affected States” in the journal Global Society. The article advances our understanding of acceptance and rejection of gender equality norms advocated by ethical foreign policies in marginalised states. The article con

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Published 17 December 2021 Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö (Malmö University) are the editors of a special issue on power and evaluation. The special issue’s article is open access. Through an increasing demand for, and dependence on, various forms of evaluative practices in the public sector, the editors have seen the emergence of what has been called an audit and evaluation society. How these "soc

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Published 21 December 2021 Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Annick Wibben published the chapter “Feministiska institutioner? Utrikespolitik och nationellt försvar” (in English: Feminist Institutions? Foreign policy and national defense) in the edited collection Feministiska Perspectives on Global Politics (Studentlitteratur). The chapter is based on three adjacent research areas: feminist

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Published 11 January 2022 Anders Uhlin has together with Håkan Johansson and Malin Arvidson published the article “Capital and Closure in the EU Field. Advancement in the European Economic and Social Committee” in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article explores what it takes to advance to the top of an EU institution (the European Economic and Social Committee). The article combines Bourdie

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-career-advancement-eu-institution - 2025-04-21

Published 10 December 2013 For the second time this year the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University receives The Swedish Research Council’s grant for an International Post Doc. In June of this year Stefan Larsson received the grant for his research on legal challenges in a digital context. This time Rustamjon Urinboyev’s project on migration and legal culture is awarded the grant, which me

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Published 28 February 2023 The Sociology of Law Department's annual research day for new students took place on the Lund University campus for the first time since the end of the pandemic restrictions last year. The day introduced several of the department's new researchers and PhD students. Professor Ole Hammerslev joined the Sociology of Law Department on 1 January this year. His research intere

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