Published 15 January 2016 Maysam Behravesh has got a new position as a "Research Fellow" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, and will start working there in January 2016 while continuing to complete his PhD at the Department. CMES was founded in 2007 in an effort to support and coordinate research on the Middle East and North Africa and has since become an institution

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/behravesh-new-research-fellow - 2025-04-21

Published 19 January 2016 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have co-authored the article "A tale of three bridges: agency and agonism in peace building", published in Third World. AbstractThis article explores agonistic processes of peace, which are situated within and constitutive of different spaces and places. Three contested cities, Sarajevo, Mostar an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-mannergren-selimovic-have-co-authored-article-about-peace-building - 2025-04-21

Published 26 January 2016 OUTREACH: Angela Oels is a panelist in a big discussion on the outcomes of the Paris climate summit hosted in Lund by the Association of Foreign Affairs. Learn more on facebook.comAngela Oels personal page here at the Department’s website

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/big-discussion-about-paris-climate-summit - 2025-04-21

Published 5 February 2016 Annika Fredén defended her dissertation "Strategic Voting under Coalition Governments " on February 5 at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Associate professor Indridi Indridason, University of California Riverside, USA.Strategic Voting under Coalition GovernmentsAnnika Fredén 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-freden-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-21

Published 28 January 2016 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “The Postcolonial has Moved into Europe: Bordering, Security and Ethno-Cultural Belonging” AbstractThe legacy of European colonialisms and nationalisms has conditioned immigration and citizenship policies that inform the postcolonial move into Europe. This article questions the assumptions that undergir

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-postcolonial-has-moved-europe - 2025-04-21

Published 29 January 2016 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Emil Edenborg has published "The secret funerals in Pskov: Spectacles of war and spectres from the past” in the Newsletter of the Institute of East European, Eurasian and Slavic Studies, UC Berkeley. Read the text on iseees.berkeley.edu (pdf, page 11)Emil Edenborg’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/edenborg-secret-funerals-pskov - 2025-04-21

Published 10 February 2016 The Teaching Academy at the Faculty of Social Sciences has appointed Karin Aggestam as Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP) and Magdalena Bexell, Douglas Brommesson and Åsa Knaggård as Qualified Teaching Practitioners (QTP). Learn more about Teaching Academy on the Faculty of Social Sciences website.Karin Aggestam's personal pageMagdalena Bexell's personal pageDouglas B

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-members-teaching-academy - 2025-04-21

Published 4 March 2016 OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond is one of the speakers at the seminar Women, War and Refugees on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on the 8th of March. The seminar is organised by the Faculty of Social Science amongst others at LU. Other contributors are Gudrun Schyman, party leader of Feministiskt Initiativ and Lena Agg, General Secretary of Kvinna till Kvinna

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/women-war-and-refugees - 2025-04-21

Published 7 March 2016 OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond has been invited to join the editorial advisory board of the British journal "Review of International Studies" between 2016-2019. Annika Bergman Rosamond's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-has-been-invited-join-editorial-advisory-board - 2025-04-21

Published 8 April 2016 Emil Edenborg defended his dissertation "Nothing more to see: Contestations of belonging and visibility in Russian media" on April 8 at 10:15 in Niagara, auditorium B0E15, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö. External reviewer: Professor Nira Yuval-Davies, University of East London, UK. Nothing more to see: Contestations of belonging and visibility in Russian mediaEmil Edenborg 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/emil-edenborg-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-04-21

Published 16 March 2016 Karin Aggestam has together with Ronny Berndtsson, Kaveh Madani and Dan-Erik Andersson co-authored the book-chapter "The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Conflict and Water Diplomacy in the Nile Basin" in the book "Water Diplomacy in Action. Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems", edited by Shafiqul Islam and Kaveh Madani. Learn more on Anthem Press’ webs

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-diplomacy-water-and-conflict - 2025-04-21

Published 23 March 2016 Henrik Friberg Fernros at University of Gothenburg has together with Douglas Brommesson co-authored the reply ”The limits of the principle of charity: Why Haeselbrouck is wrong after all” published in International Politics. Learn more on Palgrave Macmillan’s website:The limits of the principle of charity: Why Haeselbrouck is wrong after all (2016)The responsibility to prot

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-responsibility-protect - 2025-04-21

Published 24 March 2016 Our researchers Roger Hildingsson, Åsa Knaggård, Annica Kronsell, Ina Möller, Jasmine Livingston and Vasna Ramasavisit visit Colorado State University, Fort Collins to initiate collaborations on teaching environmental politics.  Roger Hildingsson’s personal pageÅsa Knaggård’s personal pageAnnica Kronsell’s personal pageIna Möller’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/our-researchers-visit-colorado-state-university - 2025-04-21

Published 29 March 2016 Hanna Bäck is one of the authors of the article ”Intra-party diversity and ministerial selection in coalition governments” which has been published in the journal Public Choice. Learn more on Springer Link’s websiteHanna Bäck’s personal site 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-selection-ministers-coalition-governments - 2025-04-21

Published 5 April 2016 Hanna Bäck and Marc Debus have published a book about speeches and debates in European parliaments (published by Palgrave Macmillan). In this book, the authors study which members participate more, and which members deviate more from the party line in parliamentary debates.Learn more on palgrave.comHanna Bäck’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-book-debates-european-parliaments - 2025-04-21

Published 8 April 2016 Annika Bergman Rosamond features in two recent television broadcasts on the occasion of International Women’s Day. See the broadcasts on UR Play’s website:Universitetets ansvar för kvinnor på flykt (in Swedish)Feministisk utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik (in Swedish)Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/television-broadcasts-women-war-and-flight - 2025-04-21

Published 10 April 2016 Karin Aggestam has been appointed visiting professor (2016-2018) at Monash University, Australia. She will be participating in the research program on Gender, Peace & Security (GPS). Learn more on GPS's websiteKarin Aggestams personliga hemsida 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-has-been-appointed-visiting-professor - 2025-04-21

Published 5 May 2017 Did you miss Ullrika’s Docent lecture? Don’t worry.Have a look at the slides on evidence.blogg.lu.se

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/ullrika-sahlin-docent-lecture - 2025-04-21

Published 10 May 2017 During last autumn and winter a team of researchers, PhD students and master students from Lund University and Leuphana University, Lüneburg, joined forces to undertake a student-driven quantitative review on temporal changes in ecosystem services. While the primary outcome of this collaboration will be a review to be published in an international scientific journal, the true

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/student-driven-quantitative-review-temporal-changes-ecosystem-services - 2025-04-21

Published 17 May 2017 BECC researcher Ullrika Sahlin has together with other researchers published a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet today (17/5) arguing that the WWF's advice not to eat the endangered indigenous Swedish crayfish Astacus astacus is confusing and should be changed. Read the article on svd.se (in Swedish)

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/article-crayfish-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-04-21