Published 18 February 2022 Lisa Strömbom, Isabel Bramsen and Anne Lene Stein have recently published the article "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas" in Review of International Studies (open access). The study develops a framework for analysis of agonistic principles in peace agreements, based on the three indicators 1) spaces for interaction, 2) forms of inclusion, and 3) t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-bramsen-and-stein-how-analyze-and-understand-agonistic-principles-peace-agreements - 2025-04-01

Published 4 March 2022 Sara Kalm has written a book chapter on migration and welfare together with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall, both at Gothenburg University. The chapter is called ”Welfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship”, and is part of the newly published Handbook on Migration and Welfare, Edward Elgar Publishing, ed. Markus M.L. Crepaz. Link to the volum

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-borang-and-lindvall-migration-and-welfare - 2025-04-01

Published 8 March 2022 Malte Breiding Hansen and Maria Jansson (Örebro University) have authored the open-access article ”Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State” in the journal NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. The article asks whether articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of po

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-and-jansson-gender-neoliberalism-and-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-04-01

Published 10 March 2022 Elsa Hedling has co-authored the book The Everyday Making of EU Foreign and Security Policy. Practices, Socialization and the Management of Dissent published Open Access by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book confronts why despite increasing levels of contestation on CFSP issues between EU member states, EU practitioners generally perceive their working environment as fully f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-everyday-making-eu-foreign-and-security-policy - 2025-04-01

Published 10 March 2022 Johan Matz has published an article in Intelligence and National Security. This article approaches the intelligence dimension of Sweden’s arms exports by going back to three governmental decisions, taken in 1914, 1935 and 1971 respectively, all of which have been pivotal to both the Swedish government’s involvement in arms exports and the emergence of government institution

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/johan-matz-arms-exports-and-intelligence-case-sweden - 2025-04-01

Published 11 March 2022 In a newly published article in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson analyse the appeal of far-right populist politics in the everyday and how this appeal is related to continuity and change in the global order. One of their key arguments is that while far-right populism is able to momentarily overwrite a sense of d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-dynamics-everyday-populism - 2025-04-01

Published 17 March 2022 In the chapter ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the EU’s own role self-conception as it appears in the EU Global Strategy from 2016 and problematizes how the changing international context in recent years yield new preconditions for the EU to act on the global stage. The chapter is part of a recently published volume entitl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eus-role-self-conception-global-affairs - 2025-04-01

Published 18 March 2022 Panel talks about Ukraine On March 9, 2022, a panel of Lund University experts considered: Why history matters to the invasion and conflict? What does the invasion mean for Putin’s Russia, Ukraine, and beyond? What is the impact of the invasion on Sweden, Europe, and the rest of the world? Watch the panel discussion ’The Russian invasion of Ukraine - why history matters and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/panel-experts-russian-invasion-ukraine - 2025-04-01

Published 21 March 2022 New article by Ted Svensson and Agnes Cornell on the introduction of merit reforms in nineteenth-century Britain and its possible colonial origins. In a newly published article in Governance, Ted Svensson (together with Agnes Cornell) explores whether the inspiration to reform the British Civil Service, along the lines suggested in the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan Report, was d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-and-agnes-cornell-introduction-merit-reforms-nineteenth-century-britain - 2025-04-01

Published 24 March 2022 The article compares two approaches to transnational humanitarian recuperation that Italian organisations undertook in relation to children affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. The first approach was a home stay and the second – a camp stay. Using in-depth interviews with children and their parents from Belarus and Japan as well as NGO reports and medi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/chronic-crisis-and-nuclear-disaster-humanitarianism-cases-chernobyl-and-fukushima - 2025-04-01

Published 29 March 2022 Isabel Bramsen has published the article, “Transformative diplomacy? Micro-sociological observations from the Philippine peace talks” in International Affairs”. The article investigates the dynamics and limits of face-to-face peace diplomacy based on direct observations from the Philippine peace talks. Link to the article in International Affairs.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-dynamics-and-limits-diplomacy-philippine-peace-talks - 2025-04-01

Published 8 April 2022 Niklas Altermark and Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska are co-authors of a new article on leadership training for civil society: Training leaders for the future? Leadership models for emerging and aspiring civil society leaders in Sweden and the UK This article aims to understand the prevalent leadership models in seven prominent leadership development programmes targeting emerging

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/more-top-down-management-swedish-leadership-programs-civil-society - 2025-04-01

Published 11 April 2022 Isabel Bramsen just published a PRIO case brief, “Controversies of Inclusion in the Colombian Peace Process: The Balancing Act of Introducing New Norms and Gaining Popular Support”, where she discusses the peace vs. inclusion dilemmas taking point of departure in the Colombian peace process. The question of justice versus peace has long been accepted as a core dilemma in pe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-controversies-regarding-inclusion-peace-processes - 2025-04-01

Published 14 April 2022 This article examines the emergence of a ‘migration industry’ as a result of European border externalisation and security outsourcing practices to curb migration flows from Libya. It argues that the management of migration has been partly delegated to a network of interlinked private and public actors which constitute a complex migration governance structure that ultimately

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/pacciardi-and-berndtsson-emergence-migration-industry - 2025-04-01

Published 22 April 2022 Main supervisor Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, defender Sarai-Anne Ikenze and External reviewer Professor Nicolas Van De Walle, Cornell University. Today Sarai-Anne Ikenze succesfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment: An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity’, in which she descriptively demonstrates significant continuity over t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sarai-anne-ikenze-has-defended-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-04-01

Published 17 May 2022 In the recently published second edition of Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (editor Brian J.C. McKercher), Christer Jönsson contributes a chapter entitled ”Theorising Diplomacy” and Rikard Bengtsson a chapter on ”The European Union in International Relations: Great Power under Strain?”. More information can be found here, on Routledge's site.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-and-bengtsson-routledge-handbook-diplomacy-and-statecraft - 2025-04-01

By bjorn [dot] frostner [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 23 May 2022 Niklas Altermark and Magnus Dahlstedt are the editors of the new anthology "Bortom systemskiftet - Mot en ny gemenskap" where leading welfare researchers discuss Sweden's system shift and ways forward. The welfare state that was created in Sweden in the 20th century has been transformed at a rapid pace for

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/beyond-system-shift-towards-new-community - 2025-04-01

Published 20 May 2022 In a new article in European Societies, Anders Uhlin (together with Malin Arvidson) analyses the European Economic and Social Committee. Contributing to research on civil society elites in the EU context, this article focuses on the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). It explores who the main actors are, what roles they play, and what resources they use, value, and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anders-uhlin-european-economic-and-social-committee - 2025-04-01

Published 20 May 2022 Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Opening Up of International Organizations” that appears in the book "Beyond the Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics", edited by Christopher L. Pallas and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood, published by The University of Alabama Press. About the chapter: The opening up of international org

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anders-uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-international-organizations - 2025-04-01

Published 23 May 2022 The authors examine the relationship between single member versus multimember decision-making boards in regulatory agencies in the case of telecom, and how this relates to the spread of mobile and fixed broadband. Drawing on literature from economics and political science and statistical analysis of empirical evidence, they find that the best way of organizing such agencies d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/collegiality-and-efficiency-political-scientist-and-economist-provide-answer-looking-telecom - 2025-04-01