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Ketevan Bolkvadze, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, has published a new article in Governance titled "Corrupt or Repressive? How Political Competition Incentivizes Hybrid Regimes to Subvert Police in Distinct Ways." The study explores how varying levels of political competition in hybrid regimes influence whether police forces are used for corruption or repression. Drawing o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-publishes-new-study-police-subversion-hybrid-regimes - 2026-01-02

Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have published a chapter on Sweden’s former Feminist Foreign Policy (2014-2022) and how it was implemented in diplomatic work. The chapter, “To Practice What You Preach: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Diplomatic Work” is part of the book Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States: A Gender-Just Climate Emergency Response, published by Routledge wi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-and-elgstrom-swedens-former-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-01-02

Ian Manners has edited the twentieth anniversary special issue on ‘Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis', published September 2025. This twentieth anniversary special issue broadens the horizons beyond the 2013 Cooperation and Conflict special issue to develop the normative power approach through a prospective on the use of normative power in addressing the planetary organic crisis. The

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-editor-special-issue-cooperation-and-conflict-normative-power-planetary-organic-crisis - 2026-01-02

Are you looking for a user-friendly overview of the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This open access book is the answer! Since the launch in 2015, the 17 SDGs have shown limited progress. Still, it is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 and beyond. This book starts with an introduction to contextualize the status of the SDGs,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-know-about-sdgs-new-book-reinforces-case-sustainable-development - 2026-01-02

Hanna Bäck has co-authored the article "Group belongingness and collective action: Effects of need to belong and rejection sensitivity on willingness to participate in protest activities" which has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Links:Group belongingness and collective action: Effects of need to belong and rejection sensitivity on willingness to participate in protest activi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-group-belongingness-and-collective-action - 2026-01-02

Sarah Anne Rennick defended her dissertation "The Practice of Politics and Revolution: Egypt's Revolutionary Youth Social Movement" today at 10:15 in Edens Hörsal. Location: Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund.Sarah Anne RennickThe Practice of Politics and Revolution: Egypt's Revolutionary Youth Social Movement

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sarah-anne-rennick-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Lisa Strömbom has co-authored an article with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (Utrikespolitiska institutet) titled "Whose Place? Emplaced narratives and the politics of belonging in East Jerusalem’s contested neighbourhood of Silwan", published in the journal Space and Polity. Links:“Whose Place? Emplaced narratives and the politics of belonging in East Jerusalem’s contested

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-silwan-neighbourhood-east-jerusalem - 2026-01-02

Erik Ringmar is participating in a conference in Berlin (8-9 June) on the topic of "200 Years of Conference Diplomacy. From the Congress of Vienna to the G7 Meeting". Learn more at academia.eduErik Ringmar 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmar-berlin-panel-200-years-conference-diplomacy - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annica Kronsell has written the article "Sexed Bodies and Military Masculinities. Gender Path Dependence in EU's Common Security and Defense Policy" in the journal Men and Masculinities. Links:“Sexed Bodies and Military Masculinities. Gender Path Dependence in EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy in Men and Masculinities”Annica Kronsell

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annica-kronsell-gendered-identity-eus-security-and-defense-policy-institutions - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Mats Fred's article "Projectification in Swedish municipalities. A case of porous organizations" has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. Links:Projectification in Swedish municipalities. A case of porous organizationsMats Fred

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mats-fred-projectification-swedish-municipalities - 2026-01-02

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Dan Nielsen and Karin Bäckstrand presented yesterday at a side-event at the current UN climate negotiations in Bonn on 'Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade’. The event was covered in the widely circulated ISSD newsletter.Links:Newsletter on ‘Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade’Tobias Nielsen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-and-backstrand-present-un-climate-negotiations-bonn - 2026-01-02

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Dan Nielsen blogs on LU Sustainability Forum about last weeks UN climate negotiations. The blog post titled “Green light for REDD+” covered a ‘historical’ conclusion of the negotiations on the methodological guidance for UN based mechanism aimed at reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+). Links:“Green light for REDD+”To

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-developments-un-climate-conference - 2026-01-02

On June 24, Erik Ringmar holds a lecture in the series "Theorizing Global Order" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Links:“Theorizing Global Order”Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-nomadic-political-theory - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Erik Ringmar's review of "Violent Protest, Contentious Politics and the Neoliberal State,” edited by Seraphim Seferiades & Hank Johnston, has just been published by Contemporary Sociology. Links:The book reviewErik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-reviews-violent-protest-contentious-politics-and-neoliberal-state - 2026-01-02

Magdalena Bexell has contributed the chapter "The Post-2015 Consultations: Fig Leaf Policy or Test Bed for Innovation?" in the newly published book "Global Trends. Prospects for World Society" Abstract:The United Nations (UN)-led global consultations on new development goals, which will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), started in 2012. In comparison with the creation of the MDGs, t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-discussions-about-new-un-millennium-development-goals - 2026-01-02

Erik Ringmar's lecture, "Nomadic political theory," at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, on June 24, 2015, is now available online: Links:"Nomadic political theory"Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmars-lecture-nomadic-political-theory-now-available-online - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic have published ”'Global' Norms and ’Local' Agency: Frictional Peacebuilding in Kosovo" in Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract:This article explores how the ‘liberal democratic peace package’ is received in post-conflict spaces. As such, it is part of a critical peace research agenda that raises critical questions co

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-gusic-problems-liberal-peacebuilding - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Greener than expected? EU finance ministries address climate finance" in the journal Environmental Politics. Abstract:Climate finance constitutes an integral part of the European Union’s climate policy. Yet, climate policy is increasingly addressed by non-environmental institutions. In examining the transfer of climate finance fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-eu-climate-policy - 2026-01-02

Annika Bergman Rosamond presented her research on Celebrity Interventionism at the Centre for International Intervention, Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK, 23 July 2015. Link:Narratives of Intervention: Perspectives from North and South

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-presents-her-research - 2026-01-02

The department is currently hosting two respectable journals. And both of them are doing well under the stewardship. Both "Cooperation and Conflict", edited by Annika Björkdahl, Martin Hall, Ted Svensson, Lisa Strömbom and Maysam Behravesh, and "Political Psychology", edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Hanna Bäck, have increased their impact factors and climbed in the rankings. Cooperation and Confli

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/journals-hosted-department-increase-impact-factors - 2026-01-02