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Karin Aggestam has edited the Open Access book "Israel: Democratic Backsliding and Elusive Peace". Lisa Strömbom contributes with a chapter on ”Agonistic Conflict Dynamics and Contested Past”. Read the book here: https://www.cmes.lu.se/sites/cmes.lu.se/files/2025-12/Israel%20Democratic%20backsliding%20and%20elusive%20peace.pdfKarin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestamLisa S

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-democratic-backsliding-israeli-politics-and-protracted-conflict - 2026-01-18

Joel Abdelmoez has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Time, Difference, and the Transnational: Feminist Activism and Solidarities in Egypt and Tunisia'. Congratulations to Dr. Abdelmoez! External reviewer: Professor Laleh Khalili, University of ExeterSupervisor: Karin AggestamAssistant supervisor: Rola El-Husseini DeanMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/joel-abdelmoez-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2026-01-18

Pasko Kisić-Merino has a new article published at the Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR) on how social media and neoliberal culture turn political conflict into spectacle. Drawing on a Lacanian framework, Pasko Kisić-Merino shows how people seek ontological security online through two intertwined features: programmable feeds that reward engagement and homophilic networks that nurture a ‘lov

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feeling-secure-antagonism-algorithmic-mainstreaming-far-right-fantasies - 2026-01-18

Jana Wrange explores the relationship between the concept of strategic autonomy and the idea of a European total defence. By tracing the trajectory of EU security discourses from 2010 to 2024, the article shows a growing emphasis on total defence at the EU level, combining civilian and military capabilities, well before the recent resurgence of the concept of strategic autonomy. The findings sugge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-jana-wrange-strategic-autonomy-and-european-total-defence - 2026-01-18

Annika Björkdahl contributes insight on just and democratic peace to the article "Rethinking Peace in Turbulent Times" in Peacebuilding with Christine Cheng, Thania Paffenholz, SungYong Lee, Gearoid Millar and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara. Once a lively global conversation about how to build and sustain peace, today’s discourse has been hijacked by the language of security, deterrence, and defence.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peacebuilding-power-politics-how-security-talk-crowding-out-imaginations-peace - 2026-01-18

Feel overwhelmed but realise the need to understand what's going on? Academic analytical frameworks can help. European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland. Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened US government is talking about simply taking Greenland for its

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-publishes-new-article-four-ways-understand-whats-going-us-denmark-and-greenland - 2026-01-18

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2026-01-18

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2026-01-18

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-resistance-non-democracies - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/2000-thanks - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18

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 - 2026-01-18