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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 - 2026-06-03

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 - 2026-06-03

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 - 2026-06-03

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 - 2026-06-03

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 - 2026-06-03

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 - 2026-06-03

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 - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Karin Aggestam has penned a chapter entitled Conflict Analysis and International Relations in the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/conflict-analysis-and-international-relations - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SYMPOSIUM. Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies invites the public to the symposium Social Resistance in Non-Democracies 25-26 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-resistance-non-democracies - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Christian Göbel speaks about Digitalisation instead of Democracy: Online Complaints as Drivers of Regime Institutionalization in China at the Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies conference.  Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digitalisation-instead-democracy - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The milestone 2000 likes on the department's Facebook has just been reached. Thanks all Fb-friends! Learn more, go to our facebook.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/2000-thanks - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall has co-edited the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/palgrave-handbook-global-political-psychology - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European University Institute is offering 160 grants for a fully funded PhD programme (including political science). Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-grants - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Emil Persson has penned the article Banning “Homosexual Propaganda”: Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary Russian Media, which has recently been published in Sexuality & Culture Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/banning-homosexual-propaganda - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CONFERENCE. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies present: Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies event takes place on 13 November 2014. At this one day conference they have invited speakers from different disciplines, including political science, anthropology, and medi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/researching-chinese-internet - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Maysam Behravesh has penned the article Iran's Reform Movement: The Enduring Relevance of an Alternative Discourse, which has recently been published in Digest of Middle East Studies. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/irans-reform-movement - 2026-06-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Ole Elgström was part of an international panel charged with evaluating research at the School of Management, Tampere University. Learn more. The University of Tampere.     

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ole-elgstrom-evaluates-research-school-management - 2026-06-03