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This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-anna-meeuwisse-explore-transnational-anti-gender-networking-promoting-natural-family - 2025-10-25

Interest groups and political parties are the primary organizational carriers of citizens’ preferences into executive and legislative political institutions. Their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. We address this gap via an original cross-national survey of interest groups, which includes the self-placement of groups on the Left-Right and Gal-Tan dimens

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonathan-polk-and-co-authors-examine-positions-european-interest-groups-and-political-parties-two - 2025-10-25

Professor Ian Manners presents on ‘The External Dimensions of the European Union’s Autocracy Crisis’ to the Swedish EU Presidency Conference on 'The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions', Stockholm, 17 April. The conference is co-organized by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies; the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies; the Centre for European Research and the School of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-presents-external-dimensions-european-unions-autocracy-crisis-swedish-eu - 2025-10-25

Plastics and other petrochemicals are rapidly expanding. Academic and political attention has focused on the consumption of plastics, but in a new Open Access article with the journal Global Environmental Change, Jakob Skovgaard and his co-authors explore the financing of petrochemical production. A key finding is that public finance plays an important role in expanding petrochemical production gl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-co-authors-explore-financing-petrochemical-production - 2025-10-25

In their just published book, ‘Coalition Agreements as Control Devices - Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe’, Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck, and Svenja Krauss provide the first comprehensive content analysis of coalition agreements across a range of parliamentary democracies in Western and Eastern Europe. They show that coalition parties systematically use coalition agreements to contro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kluver-back-krauss-new-book-coalition-agreements-control-devices - 2025-10-25

In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green transition worldwide. Hyeyoon Park examines China’s role in glo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2025-10-25

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the chapter ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” in the ”Handbook of feminist governance”, edited by Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J.     Read more about Handbook of Feminist Governance here on Edward Elgar Publishing's site. To Karin Aggestam's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-feminist-governance-foreign-policy - 2025-10-25

Catarina Kinnvall and co-author Pasko Kisić-Merino have recently published their article ‘Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy’ in Theory & Psychology, vol. 33, issue 2. Abstract This article is concerned with the psychological dimensions of deglobalization and white supremacy as related to fantasies of “whiteness.” The (re)construction of narratives and myths are contes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-kisic-merino-deglobalization-and-political-psychology-white-supremacy - 2025-10-25

Anders Uhlin has together with Soetkin Verhaegen written the article “Elites’ (De)legitimation Practices toward International Organizations” published in Global Studies Quarterly. Using unique survey data, the authors analyze how political and societal elites contribute to the legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. Link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad02

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-elites-legitimation-and-delegitimation-international-organizations - 2025-10-25

Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society and elites – this book sheds new light on how certain individuals emerge as members of a civil society elite and traces interactions with elite groups from party politics, the state, and the business sector. This edited volume analyses how such processes are influenced by reliance on foreign funding and explores how they play out i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-and-colleagues-civil-society-elites-cambodia-and-indonesia - 2025-10-25

Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely that feminism is usually seen as a European or Western "product" that is exported to the rest of the worl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2025-10-25

Daniel Gustafsson has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'The Present People'. Congratulations! Abstract In modern political thought, one of the most recalcitrant, and increasingly pressing, questions of modern democracy is whether, and in what sense, the people can be present. While the presence of the people has, and continues to be, the sine qua non of the democratic form of government,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/daniel-gustafsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-25

In the interview The Local Sweden journalist Richard Orange set out how the far-right Sweden Democrats have tried to fire up the long-dormant debate over Sweden's membership of the European Union. Lund University professor Ian Manners spoke about what it means and what to do about it. In tweets, interviews, one article in the Aftonbladet tabloid and a second one in Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, Swe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/manners-how-best-respond-sweden-democrats-swexit-gamble - 2025-10-25

Sindre Gade Viksand has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'A World of Persons'. Congratulations! Abstract This is a study of subjecthood in international thought. Human beings and states, while often held to be opposed to one another, share this: they are international thought’s key subjects. The following chapters attempt to answer the question of why that is. The main argument advanced i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sindre-gade-viksand-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-25

Simon Davidsson has been awarded the Swedish Political Science Association's prize for best thesis by younger researchers presented at the association's annual meeting 2022. Davidsson is awarded the prize for the thesis Testing Paths to Strong Parties in Western Europe or the Efficient Secret Shared. The motivation reads: Davidsson's essay is a careful examination of explanations for the developme

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/simon-davidsson-has-been-awarded-swedish-political-science-associations-prize - 2025-10-25

Isabel Bramsen has written the chapter ‘The web of relations shaping the Philippine peace talks’ in the book Relational Peace Practices edited by Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo. The chapter investigates the interaction between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) during peace talks and discusses this in relation to the larger web of relations shaping t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-web-relations-shaping-philippine-peace-talks - 2025-10-25

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article ‘The Abraham Accords’ implications for peace in the Middle East’, published in the latest issue of Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. The Abraham Accords, signed by Israel and four Arab states in 2020, were one of President Donald Trump’s most renowned foreign policy successes. But what type of peace has emerged following the Abraham Accords? Departing from the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-abraham-accords-implications-peace-middle-east - 2025-10-25

Stina Melander, Julia Bahner and Oskar Krantz have published the article “The Personal is Political – And Then What? Ideology, Representation, and Legitimacy in a Swedish Disability Organisation.” in Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. Abstract Background: Who can or cannot claim to represent other members within the disability rights movement has been discussed for decades, mainly concer

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stina-melander-co-authors-ideology-representation-and-legitimacy-swedish-disability-organisation - 2025-10-25

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article ”The two-state impasse in Israel/Palestine – The EU caught between egalitarian norms and expansionist realpolitik”, in Frontiers in Political Science. For many years, international actors have viewed a two-state solution based on democratic rights for both peoples in their respective nation-state as the silver-bullet that can solve the Israeli-Palestinian

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-eu-between-democratic-principles-and-expansionist-israeli-ideals - 2025-10-25

Karin Aggestam and Linda Eitrem Holmgren have co-authored the article ”The Women, Peace, and Security in the Middle East and North Africa, which is part of a special issue in Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. Read the article (in Swedish) here: https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/25239/22259 Karin Aggestam’s page: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam Linda Eitrem Holmgren’s page: https://www

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-eitrem-holmgren-women-peace-and-security-middle-east - 2025-10-25