Published 24 August 2020 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published two new articles about the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the journal Policy Studies they identify three main roles of parliaments in the case of national policy-making based on intergovernmental agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda, and examine the cases of Sweden and Ghana with regard to ea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-articles-2030-agenda-legitimacy-and-responsibility - 2025-03-09

Published 25 August 2020 ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics: Thinking with and beyond Giddens’ Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have recently edited a symposium with International Theory, entitled ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics’. The symposium also contains their introductory article: ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-jennifer-mitzen-have-published-new-article-international-theory - 2025-03-09

Published 17 September 2020 Daniel Möller Ölgaard has published a non-peer reviewed piece with E-IR, an open access International Relations journal online. Supplementing Naomi Klein’s concept of the Pandemic Shock Doctrine with a focus on the necropolitical dimensions of digital capitalism, this essay shows how the digital-capitalist logic relies on the exploitation of human bodies.Link to the pub

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reflections-naomi-kleins-pandemic-shock-doctrine - 2025-03-09

Published 21 September 2020 Anders Uhlin has, together with Håkan Johansson, edited a thematic issue on “Civil Society Elites” in the journal Politics and Governance. The volume includes among other articles Johansson’s and Uhlin’s editorial ”Civil Society Elites: A Research Agenda” and three articles stemming from the research project ”Civil Society Elites: New Perspectives on Civil Society in Ca

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-thematic-issue-civil-society-elites-edited-anders-uhlin-and-hakan-johansson - 2025-03-09

Published 29 September 2020 Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson and Nora Stappert have published an article in the Journal of International Relations and Development.  The article explores which groups global governance organisations target in their attempts at self-legitimation. The selection of such groups shows whose legitimacy beliefs matter to the organisation. The cases examined demonstrate t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-legitimacy-and-global-governance - 2025-03-09

Published 13 October 2020 After the 2018 election, it took 134 days for Sweden to get a new government. This government consisted of the same parties and had the same prime minister as the previous one. Why was that? And why did it take so long? Were our constitutional provisions regulating government formation to blame? This book answers these questions based on extensive interviews with the most

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-134-days-government-formations-process-after-2018-election - 2025-03-09

Published 19 October 2020 In this study, Jan Teorell together with colleagues attempt to reconcile competing positions in an important debate about the relationship between regime type and human development. First, the relationship is more likely to be perceived when democracy is measured in a nuanced fashion, taking account of gradations of democracy and autocracy. Second, some aspects of democra

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-and-human-development-issues-conceptualization-and-measurement - 2025-03-09

Published 2 November 2020 New article by Ole Elgström and Natalia Chaban The EU and Collaborative Diplomacy - Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban published the article A Perceptual Approach to EU Public Diplomacy: Investigating Collaborative Diplomacy in EU-Ukrainian Relations in the Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15:1Link to the publication on brill.comOle Elgström's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-and-collaborative-diplomacy - 2025-03-09

Published 5 November 2020 In this article Nina Wilén claims that the "added value” argument often turns into an "added burden". In this article Nina Wilén claims that the "added value” argument, used to increase female peacekeepers’ participation, often turns into an "added burden", which undermines gender equality & entrenches gender stereotypes.Link to the publication on academic.oup.com Nina Wi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilen-added-value - 2025-03-09

Published 12 November 2020 Catarina Kinnvall has, together with Pasko Kisić Merino and Tereza Capelos, published a chapter entitled ‘Getting inside ‘the head’ of the far right: Psychological responses to the socio-political context’. The article appears in Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice, edited by Stephen D. Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin and Aaron Winter, published by R

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-has-published-new-article - 2025-03-09

Published 30 November 2020 In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states began to provide many of the public services we now take for granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis of the political origins of modern public services during this period. Link to the publication on journals cambridge.org Johannes Lindvall´s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-johannes-lindvall-and-ben-ansell-inward-conquest-political-origins-modern-public-services - 2025-03-09

Published 8 December 2020 New book by Mikael Sundström, published by Edward Elgar. From the introduction: I have something to say! It’s better to burn out than to fade away! The Kurgan (1986) quote from Highlander (movie) Most of us secretly yearn to make a mark on this world – to be lastingly remembered for some extraordinary feat. If you are reading this book you are presumably a would-be, soon-

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-not-write-thesis-or-dissertation - 2025-03-09

Published 18 December 2020 Karin Aggestam has been appointed as Director for Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and coordinator of the strategic research area “Middle East in the Contemporary World". Why have you been appointed as new director and scientific research coordinator on the Middle East? From the start, I was part of the team that planned the new Centre for Middle Eastern Studies

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-has-been-appointed-new-director-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-03-09

Published 21 December 2020 Nina Wilén’s article about how the ‘added value’ of female peacekeepers risks becoming an ‘added burden’ is now open access in International Affairs. In this article, Nina argues that discussions about female peacekeepers’ "added value" may increase gender inequality, due to the added burden that it places upon female peacekeepers - a burden which is not carried by their

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilens-latest-article-now-open-access-international-affairs - 2025-03-09

Published 14 January 2021 Catarina Kinnvall has recently published a book chapter entitled ‘Postcolonialism’ in the Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, edited by Didier Bigo, Thomas Diez, Evangelos Fanoulis, Ben Rosamond and Yannis A. Stivachtis and published with Routledge. This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the researc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-catarina-kinnvall-postcolonialism - 2025-03-09

Published 21 January 2021 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catarina Kinnvall have together with Chris Agius (Swinburne University, Australia) published the article ‘Populism, Ontological Insecurity and Gendered Nationalism: Masculinity, Climate Denial and Covid-19’ in the journal Politics, Religion and Ideology. The  article proceeds from a critical analysis of gendered narratives of nationhood as mani

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-annika-bergman-rosamond-and-catarina-kinnvall - 2025-03-09

Published 29 January 2021 Christie Nicoson has recently published an article entitled 'Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach.' This paper calls for stronger consideration of positive conceptualizations of peace and of intersectionality and degrowth in pursuit of peace and resilience. Not only does climate change make planetary limitations more salient, but it als

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-christie-nicoson - 2025-03-09

Published 1 February 2021 Johannes Lindvall and Carl Dahlström (University of Gothenburg) has contributed a report to the Danish parliament’s study Managing the Covid-19-Crisis The report, which deals with Sweden’s response to Covid-19, is published as Appendix 4 in the Danish study. An English-language summary is available. Link to the study at ft.dk Johannes Lindvall's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-contributes-danish-report-covid-19 - 2025-03-09

Published 9 February 2021 In an article entitled "Nordic Security and Defence Cooperation: Differentiated Integration in Uncertain Times" Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the development and nature of Nordic security and defence cooperation. The article is part of the thematic issue on "Rediscovering Nordic Cooperation" in the journal Politics and Governance. Link to the publication on cogitatiopress.com

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-nordic-security-and-defence-cooperation - 2025-03-09

Published 12 February 2021 New article in "Foreign Policy Analysis" by Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores. In this study, Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell with colleagues engage in the debate about leadership and foreign policy outcomes by focusing on the tenure of foreign ministers. They ask why some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others. Using

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/war-performance-and-survival-foreign-ministers - 2025-03-09