Published 17 November 2016 The Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, has appointed Annika Bergman Rosamond as External Examiner for the Politics Programme for the academic years 2016-2019. Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

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Published 22 November 2016 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have authored the article ”Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals”, published in Forum for Development Studies. The article can be found on tandfonline.comAbstract:This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Develo

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Published 2 December 2016 Researchers from our and other Lund University departments will launch the Lund Human Rights Research Hub on December 8, at 14.00-17.00 in the aula of the Main University Building. This network hub will stimulate cooperation on research, education and dissemination of human rights issues. See link for more information on the event and its key note lecture.Learn more on hu

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Published 8 December 2016 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Serena Kelly and Natalia Chaban have together with Ole Elgström published the article "Perceptions of the European Union's Fledgling Delegations: More Coherence, More Effectiveness?" in the journal European Foreign Affairs Review (vol. 21, no. 4). Abstract in English:The debate surrounding the challenge of improving coherence in European Union (E

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Published 9 December 2016 The Swedish government is putting forward a range of proposals based on Maria Strömvik’s government report (SOU 2016: 10). The site europaportalen.se. has published an interview with the Minister for EU Affairs Ann Linde about the proposals she is putting forward based on Strömvik’s current investigation (in Swedish).Go to Maria Strömvik’s personal page.    

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Published 15 December 2016 Johannes Lindvall has received a large grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project Policing, Schooling, and Health Care in Historical and Comparative Perspective.

 Over the course of six years Johannes Lindvall will study the emergence of new types of public services in the nineteenth century, and its consequences for political developments in the twentieth

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Published 10 January 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESERACHERS: Anders Uhlin has co-edited the book Demanding Justice in the Global South: Claiming Rights, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume.Theoretically, the authors aim to foster a holistic and multi-faceted understanding of h

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Published 13 January 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has co-authored a chapter entitled: 'Saffron and Orange: Religion, Nation and Masculinity in Canada and India’. The chapter has been published in 'The Routledge Handbook on Narrative and Life History', edited by Ivor Goodson, Ari Antikainen, Pat Sikes and Molly Andrews (London: Routledge 2017). For more information see routledge

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Published 19 January 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Kurtis Boyer has co-authored a chapter entitled: Beyond Complicity And Denial: Animal Advocacy And The Right To Living Justly. The chapter was co-authored with Guy Scotton and Katehryne Wayne and is published in “Intervention or Protest: Acting for Nonhuman Animals”, edited by Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade and Andrew Woodhall (Wilmington: Vernon

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Published 20 January 2017 Ole Elgström was the external examiner at the University of Bath. The thesis, written by Magdalena Nasieniak, examined the changes that have taken place in the role of the Council Presidency post-Lisbon, with an emphasis on the Presidency's role in EU foreign policy. Notably, the supervisor was Leslie Wehner, who graduated from our Master of European Affairs-programme in

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Published 26 January 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Sebhatu writes about Gender-Just Peace and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu has recently authored the article “Reaching Higher: Women Liberators and Gender” which was published in the Horn of Africa Bulletin of the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala (November-December 2016 Vol. 28, Issue 6).This paper call

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Published 3 February 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Douglas Brommesson has published a new book together with Ann-Marie Ekengren at the University of Gothenburg called The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-making and Humanitarian Intervention and published by Palgrave Macmillan. More information about the book is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137544605This b

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Published 17 February 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has, together with Natalia Chaban and Olga Gulyaeva, authored the article "Russian images of the European Union: Before and after Maidan", now published by Foreign Policy Analysis. Abstract:This article probes into scope conditions for image change, investigating what changes in Russian images of the European Union (EU) have taken p

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Published 23 February 2017 Lisa Strömbom was promoted to Associate Professor at the board meeting of the Faculty of Social Sciences on the 2nd of February. Lisa Strömbom conducts research on topics such as identity politics and conflict transformation in intrastate conflicts and cities, with a special focus on Israel-Palestine, and teaches peace and conflict studies.Lisa Strömbom’s personal page.

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Published 1 March 2017 The globally leading academic association on international relations ISA elected our researcher Fariborz Zelli to their Governing Council last week. Fariborz Zelli with Susan Park, his predecessor as chair of the ISA environmental studies section.  ISA, the International Studies Association, has over 6,500 members grouped in thematic sections. At the ISA annual convention in

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Published 9 March 2017 Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have published a Special Issue with the journal Cooperation and Conflict, entitled ’Ontological Security and World Politics’. Catarina has also an article in the same issue, entitled: ’Feeling Ontologically (In)secure: States, traumas and the governing of gendered space’. "A few years ago, as we began a conversation about ontological sec

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Published 10 March 2017 Jakob Skovgaard is co-editor of and contributing to a special edition of the journal "International Environmental Agreements" entitled "Managing fragmentation and complexity in the emerging system of international climate finance". The special edition addresses which factors have influenced how financing for climate action in developing countries (climate financing) is gove

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Published 17 March 2017 OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell is on a fellowship sponsored by the EU Center on Shared Complex Challenges at University of Melbourne and gave a talk to Australian Policy makers in Canberra on 'Green Industrial Transitions in line with Climate Objectives' Thursday March 16. Annica Kronsell's personal page.Visit the website of the University of Melbourne, where Annica Kr

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Published 23 March 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Per Andersson has published an article in the journal Studies in Comparative International Development. AbstractDuring the last two centuries, taxation has not only increased dramatically in level and volume; its structure has also changed: from a heavy reliance on customs revenue in the early nineteenth century to a stronger emphasis on income tax

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Published 23 March 2017 OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond’s keynote ”Cities and Citizens for Peace - The Importance of Dialogue” at the opening of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre, 7th October 2016 is now available online. The objective of the opening of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre at the University of Iceland is to support Reykjavik in its mission of becoming a city of peace, and to advise on how Re

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