Sökresultat

Jana Wrange explores the relationship between the concept of strategic autonomy and the idea of a European total defence. By tracing the trajectory of EU security discourses from 2010 to 2024, the article shows a growing emphasis on total defence at the EU level, combining civilian and military capabilities, well before the recent resurgence of the concept of strategic autonomy. The findings sugge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-jana-wrange-strategic-autonomy-and-european-total-defence - 2026-06-15

Annika Björkdahl contributes insight on just and democratic peace to the article "Rethinking Peace in Turbulent Times" in Peacebuilding with Christine Cheng, Thania Paffenholz, SungYong Lee, Gearoid Millar and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara. Once a lively global conversation about how to build and sustain peace, today’s discourse has been hijacked by the language of security, deterrence, and defence.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peacebuilding-power-politics-how-security-talk-crowding-out-imaginations-peace - 2026-06-15

Feel overwhelmed but realise the need to understand what's going on? Academic analytical frameworks can help. European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland. Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened US government is talking about simply taking Greenland for its

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-publishes-new-article-four-ways-understand-whats-going-us-denmark-and-greenland - 2026-06-15

Sara Kalm has co-authored an article with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall (Gothenburg University), which has been published in Journal of European Social Policy. The article contributes to the literature which seeks to explain the birth and design of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. It does so from a novel perspective, as it analyzes how welfare state institutions influenced the positions states

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-co-authors-un-refugee-convention-welfare-state-perspective - 2026-06-15

In times of new geopolitical challenges, the concept of total defense has been revived, in which all citizens contribute to national defense efforts. How authorities communicate this new strategy, and when such crisis communication leads to increased defense willingness, is an important issue that Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt, together with Amanda Remsö and Emma Renström from Kristianstad Unive

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-and-sjostedt-effects-authorities-crisis-communication-individual-defense-willingness - 2026-06-15

Annika Björkdahl, Jenny Lorentzen, and Inger Skjensbæck have contributed to and edited the new book Backlash Against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Contesting Gender Norms. In recent years, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has faced mounting resistance from regressive political forces seeking to undermine its hard-won normative gains. This Open Access book offers a timely and rigo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-lorentzen-and-skjensbaeck-have-contributed-and-edited-new-book-backlash-against-women - 2026-06-15

Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, and Johanna Mannergren have co-authored the book "Troubling Testimonies. Women's narratives of war, genocide and sexual violence" (New York University Press, 2026). This book explores women’s testimonies of war across four powerful cases: Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yazidi women in Syria and Northern Iraq. We develop a theoretical framework li

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-kristine-hoglund-and-johanna-mannergren-give-voice-womens-testimonies-war - 2026-06-15

Jana Canavan has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Interspecies Freedom: Toward a Rethinking of Human-Animal Relations'. Congratulations to Dr. Canavan! External reviewer: Senior lecturer Per-Anders Svärd, Södertörns högskolaSupervisors/AdvisorsKalm, Sara, SupervisorBadersten, Björn, Assistant supervisorCudworth, Erika , Assistant supervisor, External personMore information about the thes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jana-canavan-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-06-15

Matteo de Donà and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”Responsible Accountability? Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships, Sustainable Development and Global Health” in the journal Global Policy. In a comparative study of two global health multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs), we investigate the interplay between accountability and responsibility. We show that the ways in which global health MSP

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/de-dona-and-jonsson-about-multi-stakeholder-partnerships-and-responsible-accountability - 2026-06-15

Lisa Strömbom has recently published Agonistic Memory and Peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine (Edinburgh University Press). The book investigates the role of memory politics in societies marked by deep conflict and shows how certain forms of local dialogue initiatives can counteract simplified understandings of a conflict’s history. Drawing on interview-based case studies from t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-explores-memory-dialogues-during-and-after-war-new-book-agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-06-15

Malte Breiding has been awarded the Oscar II Stipend for his doctoral thesis European Sexual Dis/Integration: An Agonistic Paradox of Legitimacy in a Contested Union. The stipend is awarded following a competitive selection process at both the faculty and university level and recognises outstanding doctoral research.Congratulations Malte and well deserved!

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/oscar-ii-stipend-awarded-malte-breiding - 2026-06-15

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has been awarded SEK 6 million through FORMAS’s open call for the project “Church Environments as a Resource in Sustainable Community Building: Between the Enduring and the Changing.” The project is carried out in collaboration with researchers in theology and architecture and explores the institutional and ethical dimensions of how church environments can serve as a resourc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/dalia-mukhtar-landgren-awarded-formas-grant-project-church-environments-resource-sustainable - 2026-06-15

In a new article in Environmental Policy and Governance, Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård, Roger Hildingsson, and Sofía Sacks Ferrari (formerly of the Department of Political Science) compare the adoption of carbon taxes in Sweden and Mexico. Carbon taxation is a key policy instrument for addressing climate change. Putting a price on emissions helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions while generating pu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-knaggard-hildingsson-and-sacks-ferrari-carbon-taxes-sweden-and-mexico - 2026-06-15

Hanna Ekström Pigot has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Diverse People, Diverse Forests? The role of social-ecological interactions in biodiversity governance'. Congratulations to Dr. Ekström Pigot! The opponent is Maja Schlüter from Stockholm University. More information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal:Diverse People, Diverse Forests? The role of so

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-ekstrom-pigot-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis-environmental-science - 2026-06-15

Students from the Department of Political Science's Master's in European Studies joined almost 100 master’s students from Lund, Copenhagen, and Malmö universities to celebrate European Day at the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES) in Copenhagen. In addition to the collective journey over the Öresund crossing, the students enjoyed seminars on ‘The Challenge from Cross-border Crime in Europe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lund-masters-european-studies-students-celebrate-europe-day-seminar-copenhagen - 2026-06-15

In a recent article published in International Studies Review, Roxanna Sjöstedt theorizes and analyzes the role of so-called functional actors in securitization processes. This is an understudied category of actors who, while external to formal decision-making, nonetheless affect threat construction and security agenda setting by requesting, preempting, endorsing, or vetoing securitization moves.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-pandemics-securitization-and-importance-functional-actors - 2026-06-15

Marie Stissing Jensen and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”From global multistakeholder partnerships to local action: the translation of partnerships” in the journal International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (INEA). The case study investigates how the Global Water Partnership translates ideas of partnership at the global level into partnering practices at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stissing-jensen-and-jonsson-about-multistakeholder-partnerships-and-translation-partnering-practices - 2026-06-15

Water crises are often framed as global challenges—but solutions are frequently local, according to a new article by Jesper Svensson and international collaborators. In a new article published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Jesper Svensson and international researchers and practitioners argue that water crises are fundamentally challenges of local governance.The authors highlight h

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-and-international-researchers-local-solutions-water-crises - 2026-06-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2026-06-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2026-06-15