Published 24 February 2025 External Reviewer Associate Professor Marco Viera, University of Birmingham and now Doctor Maysam Behravesh. Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Political Psychology of Revisionist Behavior in World Politics: State Subjectivity, Ontological (In)Security, and Iranian Foreign Policy'. Congratulations Doctor Maysam! AbstractDriven by a core curio

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Published 3 March 2025 Professor Ian Manners has received a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant to spend 2025 working at the University of Bristol to complete a book on The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The research book analyses the EU relations with the rest of the planet through from the end of the Cold War in 1990 until the end of the sabbatical in 2025.The foc

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Published 5 March 2025 The journal Global Intellectual History has just published a forum on Jens Bartelson’s latest book Becoming International (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The forum has been edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen and features contributions by Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, Or Rosenboim, and Ayşe Zarakol. Here is the introduction:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/

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Published 10 March 2025 This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war.  From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepa

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Published 20 March 2025 This book explores how women in societies plagued by ethno-national conflict can help build peace and gender equality, even in places where deep divisions have existed for generations. It uses an approach called transversal politics to analyse how women from different communities in Northern Ireland work together across an ethno-national divide to build coalitions on shared

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Published 9 April 2025 Pinar Dinc, Associate Professor and one of the editors of the book. The book ‘The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and Beyond’ explores the Republic of Turkey’s unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically analyse the broader historic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-book-republic-turkey-and-its-unresolved-issues - 2025-04-17

Published 15 April 2025 Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between government ministers and NGOs. Their findings reveal striking inequalities in who gets access to political decision-makers. Our findings reveal stark inequalities in who gets t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-gets-hearing-intersectionality-ngos-and-political-access-decision-makers - 2025-04-17

Published 25 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 24 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 24 November 2014 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 is an excellent opportunity for students who are inter

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Published 18 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 16 November 2014 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 a site for progressive climate action. This new polit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2025-04-17

Published 14 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 14 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 11 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 11 November 2014 The milestone 2000 likes on the department's Facebook has just been reached. Thanks all Fb-friends! Learn more, go to our facebook.

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Published 10 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 7 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 6 November 2014 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 - 2025-04-17

Published 3 November 2014 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 media and communication, who will share their research and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/researching-chinese-internet - 2025-04-17