Published 14 January 2022 Jana Wrange has published an article on the divergent interpretations of the concept of civil defence in Sweden. The article has been published in the journal European Security and is entitled ”Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence”.  Read more on the journal’s website Jana Wrange’s persona

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-civil-defence-sweden - 2025-04-17

Published 18 January 2022 Maiken Røed has published the article “When do political parties listen to interest groups?” in Party Politics. The article examines 88 Norwegian policy proposals and shows that parties often reuse input from interest groups. Characteristics relating to the proposals, interest groups, and parties affect parties’ propensity to listen. Read more on the journal’s website Mai

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-parties-propensity-listen-interest-groups - 2025-04-17

Published 20 January 2022 Sara Kalm has published the article ”The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance” in the journal Global Society. The article is concerned with the private firms that design and manage programs for selling citizenship for the governments that have chosen this policy path. It examines how these firms exert power, by a focus on their interm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-firms-sell-citizenship - 2025-04-17

Published 21 January 2022 Photo: Michael Erhardsson, Mostphotos Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Resea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2025-04-17

Published 25 January 2022 Rikard Bengtsson has together with Douglas Brommesson (Linnaeus University) published an article entitled "Institutional trust and emergency preparedness: Perceptions of Covid 19 crisis management in Sweden" in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. The article analyses the Swedish public's trust in different actors involved in Covid 19 crisis management and how

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-trust-and-crisis-management - 2025-04-17

Published 28 January 2022 Thomas Hickmann has co-authored a new open access article in the journal Earth System Governance. The article presents the current state of knowledge on the relationship between democratic practices and sustainability transformations. Starting off from long-standing debates about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations tow

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/are-democracies-task-generating-large-scale-sustainability-transformation-and-sustain-liveable - 2025-04-17

Published 4 February 2022 Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article "Tracing Responses to Recognition in the Oslo Peace Process and Its Aftermath - the Interlinkage between Relational and Internal Ontological Security" in the journal Conflict Resolution Quarterly (open access). The article deals with mechanisms for how formal and relatively superficial forms of recognition in peace processes can o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-recognition-peace-processes - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17

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 - 2025-04-17