Published 12 June 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Dan Nielsen and Karin Bäckstrand presented yesterday at a side-event at the current UN climate negotiations in Bonn on 'Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade’. The event was covered in the widely circulated ISSD newsletter.Links:Newsletter on ‘Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade’Tob

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-and-backstrand-present-un-climate-negotiations-bonn - 2025-07-11

Published 16 June 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Dan Nielsen blogs on LU Sustainability Forum about last weeks UN climate negotiations. The blog post titled “Green light for REDD+” covered a ‘historical’ conclusion of the negotiations on the methodological guidance for UN based mechanism aimed at reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+). Links:“G

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-developments-un-climate-conference - 2025-07-11

Published 23 June 2015 On June 24, Erik Ringmar holds a lecture in the series "Theorizing Global Order" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Links:“Theorizing Global Order”Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-nomadic-political-theory - 2025-07-11

Published 26 June 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Erik Ringmar's review of "Violent Protest, Contentious Politics and the Neoliberal State,” edited by Seraphim Seferiades & Hank Johnston, has just been published by Contemporary Sociology. Links:The book reviewErik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-reviews-violent-protest-contentious-politics-and-neoliberal-state - 2025-07-11

Published 1 July 2015 Magdalena Bexell has contributed the chapter "The Post-2015 Consultations: Fig Leaf Policy or Test Bed for Innovation?" in the newly published book "Global Trends. Prospects for World Society" Abstract:The United Nations (UN)-led global consultations on new development goals, which will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), started in 2012. In comparison with the c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-discussions-about-new-un-millennium-development-goals - 2025-07-11

Published 16 July 2015 Erik Ringmar's lecture, "Nomadic political theory," at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, on June 24, 2015, is now available online: Links:"Nomadic political theory"Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmars-lecture-nomadic-political-theory-now-available-online - 2025-07-11

Published 21 July 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic have published ”'Global' Norms and ’Local' Agency: Frictional Peacebuilding in Kosovo" in Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract:This article explores how the ‘liberal democratic peace package’ is received in post-conflict spaces. As such, it is part of a critical peace research agenda that raise

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-gusic-problems-liberal-peacebuilding - 2025-07-11

Published 26 July 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Greener than expected? EU finance ministries address climate finance" in the journal Environmental Politics. Abstract:Climate finance constitutes an integral part of the European Union’s climate policy. Yet, climate policy is increasingly addressed by non-environmental institutions. In examining the transfe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-eu-climate-policy - 2025-07-11

Published 3 August 2015 Annika Bergman Rosamond presented her research on Celebrity Interventionism at the Centre for International Intervention, Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK, 23 July 2015. Link:Narratives of Intervention: Perspectives from North and South

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-presents-her-research - 2025-07-11

Published 4 August 2015 The department is currently hosting two respectable journals. And both of them are doing well under the stewardship. Both "Cooperation and Conflict", edited by Annika Björkdahl, Martin Hall, Ted Svensson, Lisa Strömbom and Maysam Behravesh, and "Political Psychology", edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Hanna Bäck, have increased their impact factors and climbed in the rankings

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/journals-hosted-department-increase-impact-factors - 2025-07-11

Published 10 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has written the article "Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe", recently published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Abstract:In this article I analyze how far right movements and parties in Europe are challenging European notions of open borders and the freedom of movement through activ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-european-far-right - 2025-07-11

Published 12 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article "Demography and Democracy: A Global, District-level Analysis of Electoral Contestation" in American Political Science Review. Among the co-authors is John Gerring (Boston University). Abstract:"According to the classical perspective, polity size and democracy are inversely related. In this article, we argue th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-democracy-and-size-polities - 2025-07-11

Published 14 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall is the co-author and co-editor of an introductory essay to a special issue of Political Psychology. The introduction of the essay:Narratives are the stories people construct to make sense of their reality. Narratives help usunderstand who we are, where we come from, and the implications of that for our current lives. At acollecti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-narratives-regarding-security - 2025-07-11

Published 17 August 2015 Erik Ringmar's latest book, Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palance of the Emperor of China, has been reviewed in the Political Studies Review. "During October 1860, British and French troops looted Yuanmingyuan at the outskirts of Beijing. The sacking of what is commonly known in the Western World as the Summer Palace of the Chinese Emperor marked the d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmars-book-reviewed - 2025-07-11

Published 19 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren have authored the article "Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the national: protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda" in the journal Conflict, Security and Development 15(4). Abstract:A decade and a half after the adoption of United Nat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1325 - 2025-07-11

Published 19 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren have authored the article "Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the national: protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda" in the journal Conflict, Security and Development 15(4). Abstract:A decade and a half after the adoption of United Nat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1325-0 - 2025-07-11

By natascha [dot] kljun [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Natascha Kljun and Julia Kelly) - published 6 August 2024 A Swedish forest after a fire. Photo: Natascha Kljun Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-07-11

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 22 August 2024 Children in areas with lower socioeconomic levels gain the most from targeted nature projects, especially if they have no direct access to nature close to where they live. Photo: Anna Avdeeva/iStockphoto The income and education levels of a child’s environment determine their relationship to nature

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/socioeconomic-circumstances-shape-childrens-connection-nature-more-where-they-live - 2025-07-11

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 2 October 2024 António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, speaking at COP15 in Montreal, Canada. Photo: Maria Blasi In 2022, the world's nations achieved a "Paris Agreement for nature" — the Kunming-Montreal Framework, negotiated during COP15 in Canada. Now, the follow-up meeting, COP16, is set to take place in Cali

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/policy-insights-ahead-cop16-colombia - 2025-07-11

Published 17 October 2024 Stricter environmental requirements and alternative sources of income for the population are needed to stop deforestation in the Amazon, Jesica López's thesis shows. Photo: Sara Håkansson In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threatens the environment, climate and indigenous people in the Amazon. More

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-thesis-highlights-sustainable-solutions-protect-amazon-rainforest - 2025-07-11