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Catarina Kinnvall has together with John Cash edited a Special Issue in Postcolonial Studies (vol. 20, issue 3, 2017), entitled: ’Postcolonial Bordering and Ontological Insecurities’. Current and former colleagues at the Department, Ted Svensson and Emil Edenborg, also contribute articles to the Special Issue For more information, see: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpcs20/current?nav=tocList

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-postcolonial-studies-edited-catarina-kinnvall - 2025-12-17

Karin Aggestam, professor at the Department of Political Science and Ann Towns, associate professor at Gothenburg University have co-authored "Diplomacy: A Gendered Institution” i boken Diplomacy in a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press). About the book: In Diplomacy in a Globalizing World twenty-three respected scholars contribute to the debate about the changing nature of contemporary dip

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-ann-towns-women-and-global-diplomacy - 2025-12-17

At the turn of the year, Björn Badersten and Lisa Strömbom will take up their respective posts as head and assistant head of the Department of Political Science, respectively. They were both unanimously elected by the staff in mid-October, in an election held once every three years. Björn Badersten was previously assistant head of department, while Lisa Strömbom was the director of Peace and Confl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/continued-academic-freedom-guiding-light-new-leadership - 2025-12-17

"Woodworlds: Stories of desire and grief in the Swedish forest" is a new research project led by Johannes Stripple and funded by BECC - The Swedish government’s strategic research area on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate. About the project from the Decision about research funding in BECC for 2018-20:J. Stripple (Political Science, LU); Woodworlds – Stories of desire and gr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-swedish-forest - 2025-12-17

Niklas Altermark has recently published his book Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation with Routledge. The book advances and builds on his dissertation and deals with how people with intellectual disabilities are being governed. In addition, Altermark has also published an article, entitled 'Legitimising Austerity: The construction of Personal Ass

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-niklas-altermark-how-people-intellectual-disabilities-are-governed - 2025-12-17

Fariborz Zelli and Ina Möller convened a workshop on ‘Theory and Methods of Institutional Complexity in Global Governance’ in Duisburg Germany, 30 November – 1 December 2017. Participants included leading international experts on this topic such as Kenneth Abbott, Lasse Gerrits, Jessica Green, Peter Haas, Philip Haynes and Sebastian Oberthür. Global governance today is increasingly characterized b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fariborz-zelli-and-ina-moller-organized-international-workshop-complexity-global-governance - 2025-12-17

Tomas Bergström is stepping down as head of department after nine years at the helm, twelve if you count his time as assistant head of department. During his time as head of department, the department grew by 50 per cent, external funding tripled, internationalisation proceeded at record speed, English became the working language at the department and Eden was refurbished. In the corner office on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/tomas-bergstrom-hands-over-growing-eden - 2025-12-17

Mats Fred will defend his dissertation "Projectification. The Trojan horse of local government" tomorrow on February 16 at 10:15 in Niagara, Malmö University. Discussant is professor Stig Montin from University of Gothenburg. Projectification. The Trojan horse of local governmentMats Fred’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mats-fred-defend-his-thesis - 2025-12-17

Elsa Hedling’s and Douglas Brommesson’s article "Security through European integration or flexible autonomy: ambivalence in Sweden’s position on the Eastern Partnership” has been published in Global Affairs. In the article Hedling and Brommesson explore Sweden’s multiple roles in foreign policy in relation to its actions as an EU member state, seeking also to contribute to the understanding of sma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-and-brommesson-swedens-security-policy-ambivalence - 2025-12-17

Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson have received funding from the Research Council Formas for the project "Putting a price on carbon emissions: what makes states adopt carbon pricing policies?". The project will answer the question which factors influence states to adopt carbon pricing policies (carbon taxes and emissions trading systems), by mapping the states and sub- and supran

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/grant-money-two-projects - 2025-12-17

Douglas Brommesson has, together with Ann-Marie Ekengren, co-authored the chapter ”Homogenisation or fragmentation? Perceptions of mediatisation among Swedish and Finnish parliamenatrians” in the book ”Cartelisation Convergence or Increasing Similarities?”. Brommesson’s and Ekengren’s chapter is a part of a volume aiming to put the cartel party theory under scrutiny. In this volume, a group of pol

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-cartel-party-theory-focus-swedish-party-system - 2025-12-17

Nina Wilén has, together with other researchers, co-authored two articles in Journal of Eastern African Studies. Wilén is also guest editor for the Special Collection together with David Ambrosetti and Jean-Nicholas Bach. The articles are ”Rwanda’s military as a people’s army: heroes at home and abroad” (written by Nina Wilén and Josefine Kuehnel) and ”The Burundian army’s trajectory to profession

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-two-articles-special-collection-african-militaries-peace-operations - 2025-12-17

Fabio Cristiano has contributed with the chapter “Bodies of Cyberwar: Violence and Knowledge beyond Corporeality” to the newly published volume ”Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence”. This international collection brings together accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity, and positionality within the process

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-cyberwar-and-violence - 2025-12-17

Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have contributed the chapter ”Feminist Ethnographic Research: Excavating Narratives of Wartime Rape”, in the volume ”Ethnographic Peace Research”. This chapter analyzes women's narratives of war time rape in order to generate knowledge about women’s experiences of transitions from war to peace. Bosnia Herzegovina during the war 1992-1995, a country

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-war-time-rape - 2025-12-17

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Ted Svensson have both contributed with a book chapter to the edited volume ”The politics of identity: place, space and discourse”. Ted’s chapter centres on discrimination on the basis of caste in India and Annika’s text debates military intervention and the politics of memory in a Swedish context. About Annika Bergman Rosamond’s book chapter:Whilst Sweden’s changing ap

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-svensson-have-both-contributed-book-chapter-politics-identity - 2025-12-17

Hanna Bäck has, together with Emma Bäck and David Sivén, co-authored the article ”Why engage in collective action? The conditional effect of social support and efficacy on protest participation”, which was recently published in “Basic and Applied Social Psychology”. The article focuses on answering the question of why people engage in protest activities. The authors suggest that intentions to enga

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-protest-participation - 2025-12-17

Fabio Cristiano has authored the article “From Simulations to Simulacra of War: Game Scenarios in Cyberwar Exercises”, which is part of the latest issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. Abstract: This article explores the underlying culture of war sustaining the setting of scenarios within cyberwar games. In particular, it engages with the question of how to simulate a phenomenon that, d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-cyberwar-and-simulations - 2025-12-17

Michael Hansen has, together with Jennifer Clemens, co-authored the article "What to expect when you’re electing: the relationship between far-right strength and citizenship policy in Europe", which was recently published in "Comparative European Politics". The analysis builds on previous research exploring the impact of far-right support on citizenship policy. Using Bayesian analyses, the researc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-radical-rights-impact-citizenship-policy-europe - 2025-12-17

Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsson have recently published their article ”Crafting the ’Well-Rounded Citizen’: Empowerment and the Government of Counterradicalization” in International Political Sociology. The study explores and critically discusses how preventative work against violent extremism has come to revolve around fostering citizens.Learn more on academic.oup.com Niklas Altermark’s perso

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-preventative-work-against-violent-extremism - 2025-12-17

Michael Hansen has, together with Kathleen Dolan from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, co-authored the article "Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women’s Underrepresentation in Elected Office", which was recently published in "Political Research Quarterly". While scholars understand some of the reasons for the underrepresentation of women in elected office in the U

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-public-perceptions-womens-underrepresentation-elected-office - 2025-12-17