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Thorsteinn Kristinsson has successfully defended his thesis Webs of World Order - A Relational Theory of Rising Powers and the Evolution of International Order. Congratulations! Abstract This dissertation advances a relational theory of rising powers and their influence on international order. The emergence of new great powers and the relative decline of incumbent ones is an inherent feature of wo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/thorsteinn-kristinsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-29

Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Pasko Kisić Merino (Karlstad University) published the article ‘Governing Emotions: Hybrid media, Ontological Insecurity and the Normalisation of Far-Right Fantasies’ in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Abstract Focusing on the debates on ‘due impartiality’ provided to far-right leaders in Swedish media, this article uses a Lacanian approach to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-governing-emotions-hybrid-media-ontological-insecurity-and-normalisation-far-right - 2025-12-29

Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Amit Singh (University of Coimbra, Portugal) published the article ‘Enforcing and Resisting Hindutva: Popular Culture, the COVID-19 Crisis and Fantasy Narratives of Motherhood and Pseudoscience in India’ in the Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 12. The article can be accessed at: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/12/550 Read more about Catarina Kin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-enforcing-and-resisting-hindutva-popular-culture-covid-19-crisis-and-fantasy - 2025-12-29

Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. Astract India and Pakistan are entrenched in an antagonistic relation that is constantly on the verge of, once more, developing into an armed conflict. There are, presently, no signs of conciliatory initiatives on the level of state-to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-12-29

Ian Manners has published a chapter on “Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century” in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century edited by Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert, and Franziska Müller. Abstract: After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s political analysis encompasses th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-planetary-politics-twenty-second-century - 2025-12-29

The researchers Karl Holmberg and Sara Persson at the Department of Political Science have recently published an article based on a survey of Swedes' attitudes of regulation on plastics. The survey shows that the Swedish population in general is very positive about regulating plastics in various ways. Some differences are observed, for example, men and people with right-wing sympathies are slightl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedish-population-favor-regulation-plastics - 2025-12-29

During the last days of January, around 50 PhD students from four countries met to discuss the forest's past, present and future. A key insight was that ongoing research is far broader than how it’s often portrayed in the general forest debate. Participants from 10 universities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland went from large-scale to microscopic in discussions from the EU's forest policy to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forest-research-beyond-disciplines-navigating-forest-landscape - 2025-12-29

Elsa Hedling has authored the article ‘Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats’ recently published in Emotions and Society. The article analyses how diplomats perceive the demands of digital diplomacy and how emotions are engaged in their efforts to perform competently both online and offline. The findings suggest that the demands of digital diploma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-emotional-labour-digital-diplomacy - 2025-12-29

...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? –  Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas think about politics and development. It became particularly clear after Brexit that there's a lot we don't understand. For example, it's interesting, and some might say paradoxical, 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-12-29

Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. To the chapter “C

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-12-29

Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska just published a chapter in Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States about the democratic potential of politically and socially oriented civil society organizations in North Macedonia. Let us find out more – here are some questions to Milka: For someone who is not familiar with the subject, what is the current democratic situation in that region now

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2025-12-29

Professor Ian Manners, who is also due to be inaugurated as a professor tomorrow, teaches alongside Joel Abdelmoez on the course Political Cinéma. – Why Cinéma and not Cinema? –  The course is called political cinéma to remind us that ‘cinéma’ is both the production and projection of films. In 1895 the Lumière brothers first used the cinématographe motion picture system (a camera, projector, and f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ian-manners-lets-hear-little-about-new-course-political-cinema - 2025-12-29

The report published by EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance, and Democracy, argues that European Union challenges and crises of the past decade, including the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, refugees, ethno-nationalist/Brexit movements, COVID-19, and Russian invasion of Ukraine are part of a planetary organic crisis (POC) of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity. The recognition of the s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-achieving-european-communion-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-12-29

This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-anna-meeuwisse-explore-transnational-anti-gender-networking-promoting-natural-family - 2025-12-29

Interest groups and political parties are the primary organizational carriers of citizens’ preferences into executive and legislative political institutions. Their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. We address this gap via an original cross-national survey of interest groups, which includes the self-placement of groups on the Left-Right and Gal-Tan dimens

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonathan-polk-and-co-authors-examine-positions-european-interest-groups-and-political-parties-two - 2025-12-29

Professor Ian Manners presents on ‘The External Dimensions of the European Union’s Autocracy Crisis’ to the Swedish EU Presidency Conference on 'The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions', Stockholm, 17 April. The conference is co-organized by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies; the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies; the Centre for European Research and the School of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-presents-external-dimensions-european-unions-autocracy-crisis-swedish-eu - 2025-12-29

Plastics and other petrochemicals are rapidly expanding. Academic and political attention has focused on the consumption of plastics, but in a new Open Access article with the journal Global Environmental Change, Jakob Skovgaard and his co-authors explore the financing of petrochemical production. A key finding is that public finance plays an important role in expanding petrochemical production gl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-co-authors-explore-financing-petrochemical-production - 2025-12-29

In their just published book, ‘Coalition Agreements as Control Devices - Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe’, Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck, and Svenja Krauss provide the first comprehensive content analysis of coalition agreements across a range of parliamentary democracies in Western and Eastern Europe. They show that coalition parties systematically use coalition agreements to contro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kluver-back-krauss-new-book-coalition-agreements-control-devices - 2025-12-29

In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green transition worldwide. Hyeyoon Park examines China’s role in glo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2025-12-29

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the chapter ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” in the ”Handbook of feminist governance”, edited by Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J.     Read more about Handbook of Feminist Governance here on Edward Elgar Publishing's site. To Karin Aggestam's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-feminist-governance-foreign-policy - 2025-12-29