Published 10 May 2019 Ina Möller has defended her doctoral thesis "The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering" today at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Associate Professor Robert Falkner, The London School of Economics and Political Science. Her thesis studies the appearance of ‘geoengineering’ in the political discussion on climate change. The term describes a set of ideas on how to stabili

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Published 14 May 2019 Catarina Kinnvall has published a book chapter in “Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations” (edited by Jenny Edkins), entitled “Racing to the bottom, squeezing through the cracks: Imagining unbordered space”. The chapter examines the possibility of an expanded imagination of space as unbordered. It details how immigration and refugee policies and bordering prac

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Published 21 May 2019 Jan Teorell has, together with Anna Persson and Bo Rothstein, co-authored the article "Getting the basic nature of systemic corruption right: A reply to Marquette and Peiffer", which has been published in the journal Governance. This is a response to a critique of a previously published article (Persson, Rothstein & Teorell 2013), in which the authors launched a new theory of

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Published 24 May 2019 Audrey Vandeleene and her co-authors have published an article in Basic Income Studies entitled "Framing the Basic Income: An Experimental Study of How Arguments and Metaphors Influence Individuals’ Opinion Formation”. Drawing on an experimental design, the article explores the framing impact of metaphors and uses the basic income policy as context for the analysis - hereby n

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Published 28 May 2019 Sara Kalm has written the article ”Affective naturalisation: practices of citizenship conferment”, recently published in the journal ”Alternatives: Global, Local, Political”. The article develops the notion “affective naturalization” by combining the literature of affect and politics with insights from economic anthropology and by focusing on the varied practices of citizensh

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Published 29 May 2019 Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation” with Harro van Asselt. The article is published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Climate Change”. It examines the political implications of policies subsidising fossil fuel subsidies for climate change mitigation. Po

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Published 31 May 2019 Jan Teorell and Agnes Cornell have together with nine other authors co-authored the article “Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century”, which has been published in the Journal of Peace Research. In this article the authors introduce a new dataset called “The Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset”, or Histor

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Published 7 June 2019 Mårten Lindberg has defended his doctoral thesis "Why Sweden suspended military service: The policy process, 1990 to 2009" today at 10:15 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Kjell Engelbrekt, Swedish Defence University. Why Sweden suspended military service: The policy process, 1990 to 2009Mårten Lindberg’s personal page

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Published 5 June 2019 Augustín Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell have, together with Thomas Brambor, co-authored the article ”The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State”, which has been publish in the journal ”Comparative Political Studies”. This article presents new cross-country comparative evidence on the efforts of states to collect and process information about th

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Published 11 June 2019 Jan Teorell has together with Håvard Hegre and Michael Bernhard co-authored the article “Civil Society and the Democratic Peace”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of “Journal of Conflict Resolution”. In this article, the authors theorize that three distinct structures of democratic constraint may explain the so-called “democratic peace” – why more democrati

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Published 13 June 2019 Tony Ingesson has authored the article ”Anticipating the Zombie Apocalypse: Using Improbability to Teach Intelligence Analysis”, which has been published in the journal ”International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence”. One of the challenges in intelligence analysis, both as an academic subject and in its applied form, is to try to prevent bias, more or less su

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ingesson-wants-students-reflect-bias-group-dynamics-and-deception - 2025-03-17

Published 25 June 2019 Lisa Strömbom has recently published the article ”Exploring analytical avenues for agonistic peace” in “Journal of International Relations and Development”. The study presents a novel analytical framework for conceptualization and analyses of peace processes. This article highlights the importance of studying both identity change and change of social institutions when aiming

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Published 13 August 2019 Tobias D. Nielsen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg and Johannes Stripple have authored the article ”Politics and the plastic crisis: A review throughout the plastic life cycle”, which has been published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment”. This article surveys the politics of plastics by considering how plastic flows (production, consu

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Published 14 August 2019 Lisa Strömbom has recently published the article "Exploring Prospects for Agonistic Encounters in Conflict Zones: Investigating Dual Narrative Tourism in Israel/Palestine" in “Alternatives”. The study introduces an analytical framework designed to investigate facilitating and hindering circumstances when introducing and disseminating alternative views of history in communi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-alternative-views-history-protracted-conflicts - 2025-03-17

Published 15 August 2019 Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Storytelling in EU public diplomacy: reputation management and recognition of success” in the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. The study conceptualizes storytelling in public diplomacy and explores how storytelling is used in the communication of EU foreign policy. The article treats storytelling as narrative str

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Published 20 August 2019 How did brain drain emerge as a policy issue at the level of the European Union? And how has the intra-European debate on brain drain evolved over the last two decades? Jacob Hasselbalch answer these questions in the article “Framing brain drain: between solidarity and skills in European labor mobility”. In the article the author argues that the debate is defined by the in

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Published 21 August 2019 Anders Uhlin has recently published the article “Legitimacy Struggles in Global Governance: Legitimation and Delegitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank” in SAGE Open. Contributing to research on processes of (de)legitimation in global governance, the article develops a framework for analyzing legitimacy struggles paying equal attention to legitimation and d

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Published 23 August 2019 Jan Teorell has together with Kelly McMann, Brigitte Seim and Staffan Lindberg co-authored the article "Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish It", which has been published in the journal “Political Research Quarterly”. Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, scholars have found that while corruption is low at high levels o

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Published 27 August 2019 Sara Kalm, Lisa Strömbom and Anders Uhlin have co-authored the article ”Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of ’Counter-Democracy’”, which has been published in the journal “Global Society”. The article proposes a new way of analysing the potential of civil society organisations (CSOs) to democratise global governance. The aim is to ex

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Published 30 August 2019 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catia Gregoratti have authored the book chapter ”All Under the Same Sky? Celebrity Philanthropy and the Transnational Market for Women’s Empowerment” in the edited collection ”The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism” (edited by N. Farrell). This chapter is an attempt to enable a productive conversation between celebrity studies, humanitarian

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