Published 7 June 2019 Mårten Lindberg has defended his doctoral thesis "Why Sweden suspended military service: The policy process, 1990 to 2009" today at 10:15 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Kjell Engelbrekt, Swedish Defence University. Why Sweden suspended military service: The policy process, 1990 to 2009Mårten Lindberg’s personal page

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Published 5 June 2019 Augustín Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell have, together with Thomas Brambor, co-authored the article ”The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State”, which has been publish in the journal ”Comparative Political Studies”. This article presents new cross-country comparative evidence on the efforts of states to collect and process information about th

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Published 11 June 2019 Jan Teorell has together with Håvard Hegre and Michael Bernhard co-authored the article “Civil Society and the Democratic Peace”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of “Journal of Conflict Resolution”. In this article, the authors theorize that three distinct structures of democratic constraint may explain the so-called “democratic peace” – why more democrati

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Published 13 June 2019 Tony Ingesson has authored the article ”Anticipating the Zombie Apocalypse: Using Improbability to Teach Intelligence Analysis”, which has been published in the journal ”International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence”. One of the challenges in intelligence analysis, both as an academic subject and in its applied form, is to try to prevent bias, more or less su

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Published 25 June 2019 Lisa Strömbom has recently published the article ”Exploring analytical avenues for agonistic peace” in “Journal of International Relations and Development”. The study presents a novel analytical framework for conceptualization and analyses of peace processes. This article highlights the importance of studying both identity change and change of social institutions when aiming

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Published 13 August 2019 Tobias D. Nielsen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg and Johannes Stripple have authored the article ”Politics and the plastic crisis: A review throughout the plastic life cycle”, which has been published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment”. This article surveys the politics of plastics by considering how plastic flows (production, consu

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Published 14 August 2019 Lisa Strömbom has recently published the article "Exploring Prospects for Agonistic Encounters in Conflict Zones: Investigating Dual Narrative Tourism in Israel/Palestine" in “Alternatives”. The study introduces an analytical framework designed to investigate facilitating and hindering circumstances when introducing and disseminating alternative views of history in communi

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Published 15 August 2019 Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Storytelling in EU public diplomacy: reputation management and recognition of success” in the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. The study conceptualizes storytelling in public diplomacy and explores how storytelling is used in the communication of EU foreign policy. The article treats storytelling as narrative str

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Published 20 August 2019 How did brain drain emerge as a policy issue at the level of the European Union? And how has the intra-European debate on brain drain evolved over the last two decades? Jacob Hasselbalch answer these questions in the article “Framing brain drain: between solidarity and skills in European labor mobility”. In the article the author argues that the debate is defined by the in

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Published 21 August 2019 Anders Uhlin has recently published the article “Legitimacy Struggles in Global Governance: Legitimation and Delegitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank” in SAGE Open. Contributing to research on processes of (de)legitimation in global governance, the article develops a framework for analyzing legitimacy struggles paying equal attention to legitimation and d

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Published 23 August 2019 Jan Teorell has together with Kelly McMann, Brigitte Seim and Staffan Lindberg co-authored the article "Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish It", which has been published in the journal “Political Research Quarterly”. Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, scholars have found that while corruption is low at high levels o

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Published 27 August 2019 Sara Kalm, Lisa Strömbom and Anders Uhlin have co-authored the article ”Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of ’Counter-Democracy’”, which has been published in the journal “Global Society”. The article proposes a new way of analysing the potential of civil society organisations (CSOs) to democratise global governance. The aim is to ex

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Published 30 August 2019 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catia Gregoratti have authored the book chapter ”All Under the Same Sky? Celebrity Philanthropy and the Transnational Market for Women’s Empowerment” in the edited collection ”The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism” (edited by N. Farrell). This chapter is an attempt to enable a productive conversation between celebrity studies, humanitarian

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Published 3 September 2019 Maiken Røed has co-authored the article “All about the money? A cross-national study of parties’ relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies”, published in Party Politics.  The article examines political parties’ relations with trade unions and shows that there is a positive correlation between financial contributions and close relations, but that this relation

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Published 5 September 2019 Roxanna Sjöstedt has authored the book chapter “Assessing Securitization Theory: Theoretical Discussions and Empirical Developments” in the book “Securitization Revisited Contemporary Applications and Insights” (edited by Michael Butler). Sjöstedt provides a summary of the theoretical development of the concept of securitization over the past 20 years, and discusses diff

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Published 6 September 2019 Annika Björkdahl and Stefanie Kappler have recently published the article “The Creation of Transnational Memory Spaces: Professionalization and Commercialization”, in “International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society” analyzing the memory-making in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa. In the age of globalization, commemorative memory practices increasingly transcen

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Published 10 September 2019 Catarina Kinnvall has, together with Helle Rydström, edited the book “Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gendered Ramifications”. This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives

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Published 12 September 2019 Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “Populism, ontological insecurity and Hindutva: Modi and the masculinization of Indian politics”, which has been published in the journal “Cambridge Review of International Affairs”. Abstract In an era increasingly defined by insecurity and populist politics, India has emerged as a forceful ontological security provider under

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Published 19 September 2019 Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article ”Praise or critique? Sweden’s feminist foreign policy in the eyes of its fellow EU members”, which has been published in the journal ”European Politics and Society”. The article trains focus on how other EU member states perceive the Swedish feminist foreign policy. The study is based on a survey and i

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Published 23 September 2019 Jana Wrange and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article ”Internal and external perceptions of small state security: the case of Estonia”, which has been published in the journal ”European Security”. This article concerns small state security from a cognitive perspective and investigates Estonia as a security actor as perceived by all littoral Baltic Sea states. Dr

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