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New chapter by Ian Manners on the Normative Power Approach to EU External Action

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 - 2025-04-03

Lindvall on how the railroad strengthened the nation state

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 - 2025-04-03

Hildingsson and Stripple on long-term futures in urban planning

Published 14 April 2021 How can the long-term be considered in urban planning and experimentation? In a new article – "Planning for 1000 years: The Råängen experiment" published in the journal Urban Planning – Roger Hildingsson, Johannes Stripple and Alice Herrström have together with Peter Pelzer, Utrecht University, studied how the Church of Sweden as a landowner has taken on a new role as plann

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-stripple-long-term-futures-urban-planning - 2025-04-03

Elgström on external perceptions of the EU

Published 16 April 2021 Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban (University of Canterbury, New Zeeland) published a chapter on “Theorizing external perceptions of the EU” in the new textbook/handbook The External Action of the European Union. The book is edited by Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz and published by Macmillan International. Learn more on macmillanihe.com Ole Elgström’s persona

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu-1 - 2025-04-03

Rosén Sundström, Zhukova and Elgström on Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy

Published 20 April 2021 Malena Rosén Sundström, Ekatherina Zhukova and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article “Spreading a norm-based policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in international media”. The article has been published in the journal Contemporary Politics. The article investigates how Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) is reported in 17 regional powers, based on an analysis of t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-zhukova-and-elgstrom-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-04-03

New Open Access book on international economic institutions addressing climate change

Published 22 April 2021 Jakob Skovgaard has authored the book “The Economisation of Climate Change –  How the G20, the OECD and the IMF Address Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Finance”. The book investigates how international economic institutions increasingly address climate issues. The international economic institutions’ involvement ranges from then IMF Managing Director Lagarde joining force

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-book-international-economic-institutions-addressing-climate-change - 2025-04-03

Will Lebanon survive the crisis?

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 26 April 2021 After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punishe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2025-04-03

Who cares about the public sphere?

Published 4 May 2021 Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Who cares about the public sphere?”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of the journal European Journal of Political Research. In this article, Agustín Goenaga examines to what extent citizens consider the public sphere important for democracy. Many of today's most pressing democratic challenges are related to the quali

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-cares-about-public-sphere - 2025-04-03

Björkdahl on peacebuilding in South Africa

Published 6 May 2021 Annika Björkdahl is one of the authors of the article “Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa”, which has been published in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. The article shows how peacebuilding cannot address persistent structural, spatial and economic violence in South Africa. More information about the article can be

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-peacebuilding-south-africa - 2025-04-03

Røed on interest group influence on political parties

Published 17 May 2021 Maiken Røed’s article “Party goals and interest group influence on parties” has been published in the journal West European Politics. The comparative analysis of interest groups’ influence on political parties in six European democracies shows that ideological proximity between interest groups and parties, as well as parties’ willingness to compromise on policy, affect intere

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-interest-group-influence-political-parties - 2025-04-03

Two dissertations at the department

Published 21 May 2021 Lisa Justesen and Jakob Strandgaard have defended their dissertations this week. Lisa Justesen Lisa Justesen defended her dissertation "The Emerging Outer Space Order: Professional Orders, Heterarchy, Hypermodernity and Political Reason" on May 20 at 10.15. The external reviewer was Professor Mark Rhinard, Stockholms University. Lisa Justesen’s dissertation aims to make sense

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-dissertations-department-0 - 2025-04-03

The Israel-Palestine conflict: external pressure is needed to bring the parties to the negotiating table

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 May 2021 Both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict see the other party as an enemy, which confirms the threat. It is necessary to put the civilians and their suffering in focus, says Lisa Strömbom. Photo: Shutterstock Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which has harvested imm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2025-04-03

Hedling on the diplomatic practices of countering digital disinformation

Published 25 May 2021 Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Transforming practices of diplomacy: the European External Action Service and digital disinformation” published Open Access in the journal International Affairs. The article explores the transformative role of practices of countering digital disinformation in European Union diplomacy. It argues that the rise in efforts to count

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-diplomatic-practices-countering-digital-disinformation - 2025-04-03

Nielsen and Lindvall on trust in government during the COVID-19 epidemic

Published 27 May 2021 Julie Hassing Nielsen and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article ”Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic”, which has been published in the journal West European Politics. Did the different public-health policies that Sweden and Denmark pursued in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic result in different levels of public trust in govern

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-and-lindvall-trust-government-during-covid-19-epidemic - 2025-04-03

Bergman Rosamond on Nato’s Strategic Narratives and Celebrity

Published 31 May 2021 Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Katharine Wright (Newcastle University) published the article ‘Nato’s Strategic Narratives – Angelina Jolie and the Alliance’s Celebrity and Visual Turn’ in the journal Review of International Studies. The article focuses on Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to Nato in 2018, and how that signals a move to brand the alliance's strate

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-natos-strategic-narratives-and-celebrity - 2025-04-03

Young party members and their thoughts on careers

Published 3 June 2021 Elin Fjellman and Malena Rosén Sundström has co-authored the article ”Making a (Political) Career: Young Party Members and Career-Related Incentives for Party Membership”. The article has been published in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. The study investigates what career-related incentives young and active party members consider when calculating costs and benefit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/young-party-members-and-their-thoughts-careers - 2025-04-03

Kinnvall on how extremism can be prevented

Published 15 June 2021 Catarina Kinnvall and Tereza Capelos have co-edited the special issue “The Psychology of Extremist Identification” (volume 26 Issue 1, 2021) in the journal European Psychologist. The special issue aims to widen the analysis of extremism to account for the unresolved puzzles that continue to plague practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike:  Why some individuals engag

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-how-extremism-can-be-prevented - 2025-04-03

Kinnvall and Svensson on India’s foreign policy

Published 21 June 2021 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have co-authored a chapter, entitled “Differentiated Citizenship: Multiculturalism, Secularism and Indian Foreign Policy”, in the book The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy (edited by J. Dragsbaek Schmidt and S. Chakrabarti), Routledge. The book constitutes a first attempt to systematically analyze an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-indias-foreign-policy - 2025-04-03

New book on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

Published 28 June 2021 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published the book The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals. Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability. The book contributes new knowledge on processes related to the 2030 Agenda at the nexus of global and national political levels. It focuses on three countries at different levels of socio-economic development and dem

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-2030-agenda-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-04-03

Book chapters on historical international relations

Published 2 July 2021 Ted Svensson, Jens Bartelson and Martin Hall have each contributed with book chapters in the handbook ”Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations”. Ted Svensson with the book chapter ”Decolonisation and the Erosion of the Imperial Idea”. The chapter maintains that 20th-century decolonisation, unlike previous historical episodes wherein particular empires were re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/book-chapters-historical-international-relations - 2025-04-03