Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This is an excellent opportunity for students who are interested in comparative politi

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RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2025-09-13

Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. This new politics concerns transformative

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2025-09-13

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Karin Aggestam has penned a chapter entitled Conflict Analysis and International Relations in the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/conflict-analysis-and-international-relations - 2025-09-13

SYMPOSIUM. Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies invites the public to the symposium Social Resistance in Non-Democracies 25-26 November. Learn more.

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RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Christian Göbel speaks about Digitalisation instead of Democracy: Online Complaints as Drivers of Regime Institutionalization in China at the Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies conference.  Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digitalisation-instead-democracy - 2025-09-13

The milestone 2000 likes on the department's Facebook has just been reached. Thanks all Fb-friends! Learn more, go to our facebook.

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NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall has co-edited the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/palgrave-handbook-global-political-psychology - 2025-09-13

The European University Institute is offering 160 grants for a fully funded PhD programme (including political science). Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-grants - 2025-09-13

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Emil Persson has penned the article Banning “Homosexual Propaganda”: Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary Russian Media, which has recently been published in Sexuality & Culture Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/banning-homosexual-propaganda - 2025-09-13

CONFERENCE. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies present: Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies event takes place on 13 November 2014. At this one day conference they have invited speakers from different disciplines, including political science, anthropology, and media and communication, who will share their research and offer insights into differ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/researching-chinese-internet - 2025-09-13

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Maysam Behravesh has penned the article Iran's Reform Movement: The Enduring Relevance of an Alternative Discourse, which has recently been published in Digest of Middle East Studies. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/irans-reform-movement - 2025-09-13

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Ole Elgström was part of an international panel charged with evaluating research at the School of Management, Tampere University. Learn more. The University of Tampere.     

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ole-elgstrom-evaluates-research-school-management - 2025-09-13

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Tobias Dan Nielsen has co-authored the article Mapping the narrative positions of new political groups under the UNFCCC, which has recently been published in Climate Policy.  Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-political-groups-under-unfccc - 2025-09-13

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Erik Ringmar visits Comenius University in Bratislava to talk about Political theory for nomads, and Political performances: A critique of constructivist IR theory (28 & 29 October). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-visits-comenius-university-bratislava - 2025-09-13

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Erik Ringmar is working on History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective – an interactive textbook for undergrads. Please contribute comments and suggestions or download the book for free. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-interactive-textbook-undergrads - 2025-09-13

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Moira Nelson has co-authored a Letter to the Editor of Science that draws attention to the difficulties in creating dissemination channels for the reporting of negative results. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/difficulties-reporting-negative-results - 2025-09-13

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Hanna Bäck has co-authored the article The social activist: conformity to the ingroup following rejection as a predictor of political participation, which has recently been published in Social Influence. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-activist-published-social-influence - 2025-09-13

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Erik Ringmar visits our sister department in Gothenburg to speak about his new book Liberal Barbarism (20 October 2014). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-speaks-about-his-new-book-liberal-barbarism - 2025-09-13

ANNOUNCED POSITION. The department of Business administration announces a position as a PhD student specifically focused on public management (political science students are encouraged to apply) Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-position-political-science-students - 2025-09-13