Published 11 April 2024 Isabel Bramsen is the recipient of this year's Diploma Prize. The prize is worth DKK 150,000 and is awarded to young people who are expected to make a valuable contribution to Danish society. Congratulations Isabel! About the award winner and motivationIn the world we live in, the Hartmann Foundation believes that it is important to stimulate the work for peace and conflict

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Published 12 April 2024 Jana Wrange and Rikard Bengtsson have together with Douglas Brommesson (Linneaus University) published the article "Resilience through total defence: Towards a shared security culture in the Nordic–Baltic region?" in European Journal of International Security. The article departs from an analysis of conceptualizations of total defence and resilience among the Nordic and Bal

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Published 18 April 2024 Ian Manners’s lead intervention article in the forthcoming special issue of Cooperation and Conflict is online first open access on 'Normative power in the planetary organic crisis'. The lead intervention article argues that the new reality of the planetary organic crisis awaits a normative critical social theory of planetary politics, a means of understanding the sharing o

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Published 26 April 2024 Doctor Christie Nicoson is celebrated at The Department of Political Science, Lund University! Christie Nicoson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Peace in a Changing Climate: Caring and Knowing the Climate-Gender-Peace Nexus'. Congratulations! AbstractScholars and practitioners argue that climate change poses particular challenges for peace. In order to underst

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Published 3 May 2024 Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard och doctoral student Evan Drake at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Subsidies to fossil fuels – oil, coal and gas – are notoriously difficult to reform with global subsidy levels reaching a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a new article, Evan Drake and Jakob Skovgaard study how two political institutions, corporatism and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/can-political-institutions-insulate-against-political-backlash-when-dismantling-fossil-fuel - 2025-03-14

Published 17 May 2024 PhD defense in Political Science: Caroline Karlsson with external reviewer: Associate Professor Andreja Zevnik, University of Manchester. Photo. Caroline Karlsson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Prohibitive Condition: The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders'. Congratulations! AbstractThis dissertation explores the political natu

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Published 16 May 2024 The Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the premier EU-studies journal, has just published a 20th Anniversary Symposium on Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The symposium develops the ideas of the original 2002 JCMS article by introducing the arrival of normative power in planetary politics. ‘Planetary politics’ are characterised by truly planetary relati

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Published 20 May 2024 Doctoral student Esther Calvo and Professor Hanna Bäck. Radical right populist parties have often been treated as “pariahs,” being excluded from coalition politics in parliamentary democracies. How can we study this type of distancing behavior? We argue that negative rhetoric targeted at radical right populist parties in legislative debates is used by the established parties

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/calvo-back-carroll-pariah-parties-and-changing-elite-rhetoric-swedish-riksdag - 2025-03-14

Published 21 May 2024 Professor emeritus Ole Elgström and Associate Professor Malena Rosén Sundström, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström has published the article “A European Feminist Foreign and Security Policy? Norm Contestation and Norm Negotiations in the European Parliament” in International Negotiation. The article investigates the negot

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-rosen-sundstrom-negotiation-process-which-led-resolution-gender-equality-eus-foreign - 2025-03-14

Published 29 May 2024 Mats Fred, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Mats Fred and Alexander Paulsson write about two public transport authorities (PTA) who went from procuring IT and digital services to build in-house IT-capacity to gain power and control over “the digital”. Through a study of app making, this study shows that digital sovereignty is not only about controlling softwa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digital-sovereignty-and-public-authorities-efforts-byte-back - 2025-03-14

Published 30 May 2024 Professor Catarina Kinnvall and Associate Professor Ted Svensson, Department of Political Science, Lund University. AbstractThis article takes as its point of departure the postcolonial understanding of the nation as a subject constructed through the colonial encounter. It argues that at the core of both colonial and postcolonial subject formations lies a desire for reconstru

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Published 6 August 2024 A political economy theory of fossil fuel subsidy reforms in OECD countries, article in Nature Communications by Nils Droste, Benjamin Chatterton & Jakob Skovgaard. Subsidies to fossil fuels – oil, coal and gas – are notoriously difficult to reform with global subsidy levels reaching a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a new article, Nils Droste, Benjamin Chatterton and Jako

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-economy-theory-fossil-fuel-subsidy-reforms-oecd-countries - 2025-03-14

Published 7 August 2024 Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have co-authored the book The Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy. About the book: The overarching aim of the book is to provide the first comprehensive account of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy and its dissemination through digital diplomacy. In contrast to other scholarly studies of digital d

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Published 14 August 2024 Sara Kalm is one of the co-authors of the article “Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons” which has recently been published. The article, which presents a new data set, has Margaret E. Peters (UCLA) as lead author, and the other co-authors are Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall (Gothenburg University) and Adrian Shin (University of Colorado: Boulder). Abstrac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-introducing-novel-historical-immigration-policy-dataset-sara-kalm-and-others - 2025-03-14

Published 16 August 2024 In the 2022 Swedish General Election, the Liberal party was in danger of not reaching parliamentary representation, but finally succeeded to make it to parliament. How opinion polls affect this kind of voting is the focus in a new publication by Annika Fredén together with colleagues at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, published in International Journal of Public

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-strategic-voting-threshold-parties - 2025-03-14

Published 16 August 2024 Laura Landorff and Anders Uhlin have authored the article “Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? Exploring capital gains through boundary crossing”, recently published in European Politics and Society. Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/landorff-and-uhlin-economic-and-political-elites-eu-civil-society - 2025-03-14

Published 2 February 2023 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

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By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 9 February 2023 Markus Holdo in front of the town Anghiari in Tuscany during fieldwork. Photo: Markus Holdo. ...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 t

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Published 21 February 2023 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 organ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-03-14

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 22 February 2023 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2025-03-14