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I kapitlet ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” analyserar Rikard Bengtsson EU:s egen rolluppfattning som utrikespolitisk aktör så som den framträder i EU:s globala strategi från 2016 och problematiserar hur de senaste årens förändrade internationellpolitiska kontext ger nya förutsättningar för EU att agera på den globala arenan. Kapitlet ingår i den nyligen utkomna antologin

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/bengtsson-om-eus-rolluppfattning-som-global-aktor - 2025-11-29

Den 9 mars 2022 diskuterade en expertpanel vid Lunds universitet den ryska invasionen av Ukraina. Forskarna resonerade kring: Varför är historien viktig för invasionen och konflikten? Vad innebär invasionen för Putins Ryssland, Ukraina och andra länder? Hur påverkar invasionen Sverige, Europa och resten av världen? Se paneldiskussionen “The Russian invasion of Ukraine - why history matters and wha

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/expertpanel-om-den-ryska-invasionen-av-ukraina - 2025-11-29

New article by Ted Svensson and Agnes Cornell on the introduction of merit reforms in nineteenth-century Britain and its possible colonial origins. In a newly published article in Governance, Ted Svensson (together with Agnes Cornell) explores whether the inspiration to reform the British Civil Service, along the lines suggested in the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan Report, was drawn from the introducti

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ted-svensson-and-agnes-cornell-introduction-merit-reforms-nineteenth-century-britain - 2025-11-29

I artikeln jämförs två tillvägagångssätt för transnationell humanitär återhämtning som italienska organisationer använde sig av för barn som drabbades av kärnkraftskatastroferna i Tjernobyl och Fukushima. Det första tillvägagångssättet var hemvistelse och det andra - lägervistelse. Med hjälp av djupintervjuer med barn och deras föräldrar från Belarus och Japan samt rapporter från icke-statliga org

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/kroniska-kriser-och-humanitara-insatser-vid-karnkraftskatastrofer-som-tjernobyl-och-fukushima - 2025-11-29

Isabel Bramsen har publicerat artikeln "Transformative diplomacy? Micro-sociological observations from the Philippine peace talks." i International Affairs. Artikeln undersöker dynamiken och gränserna för personlig fredsdiplomati baserat på direkta observationer från de filippinska fredssamtalen. Länk till artikeln i International Affairs.

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/bramsen-om-dynamik-och-granser-diplomati-i-filippinska-fredssamtal - 2025-11-29

Vilka läxor bör svensk förvaltning ha lärt sig av Coronapandemin? Bland annat att det finns ett tyst men kreativt entreprenörskap i offentlig sektor, och att den öppna svenska strategin inte innebar öppenhet för alla grupper. Se Fredagsmagasinet där två statsvetare, en organisationsforskare och en genusvetare analyserar viktiga lärdomar. Genusvetaren Rebecca Selberg forskar om sjuksköterskors arbe

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/vad-svensk-forvaltning-bor-ha-lart-sig-av-coronapandemin - 2025-11-29

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the chapter "Mitigation and Adaptation Measures" together with Sahar Baghban (University of Tehran), Omid Bozorg-Haddad (University of Tehran), Mike Hobbins (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Nadhir Al-Ansari (Luleå University of Technology) in a new edited volume published by Springer. The chapter, which addresses how climate change has dire

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sustainable-water-management-mitigation-and-adaptation - 2025-11-30

CMES scholar Sarah Anne Rennick has been interviewed about Tunisia in the BBC World Service Podcast "The Inquiry". The podcast episode (from July 28, 2022) addresses the question of why Tunisia turned its back on democracy. Tunisia was a beacon of hope for democracy after the Arab Spring. The country rid itself of dictator Ben Ali after 24 years of rule and moved to a more democratic system. Now t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennick-interviewed-about-tunisia-bbc-podcast - 2025-11-30

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions" together with S. Dehghani (University of Tehran), A.R. Massah Bavani (University of Tehran), A. Roozbahani (University of Tehran) and A. Gohari (Isfahan University of Technology), published in Sustainable Producti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/water-scarcity-modeling-iran - 2025-11-30

CMES Director Karin Aggestam and Coordinator Linda Eitrem Holmgren have authored the article "The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace" published in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analys

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/gender-resilience-nexus-peacebuilding-quest-sustainable-peace - 2025-11-30

The well-attended CMES panel in Almedalen on democracy in the Middle East is now available on YouTube (in Swedish)! Democracy in the Middle East (Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern) July 6, 2022, 11:15-12:15, Hästgatan 13 in Visby The contemporary Middle East and North Africa is populated by authoritarian one-party states, monarchies and sheikdoms, with a few democratic states. What are the necessary

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-panel-discussion-almedalen-democracy-middle-east - 2025-11-30

On Friday September 2, Laleh Foroughanfar is defending her PhD thesis in Architecture and Built Environment, "The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö". Welcome to attend! Laleh Foroughanfar will be defending her PhD thesis The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö. 

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-defence-street-associations-migration-and-infrastructural-reproduction-norra - 2025-11-30

CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady has co-authored the article "How capital shapes refugees’ access to the labour market: the case of Syrians in Sweden" together with Akram Al Ariss (TBS Education), published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management. This paper highlights the ways Syrian refugees in Sweden utilise the different forms of capital available to them in order to find jobs

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-refugees-swedish-labour-market - 2025-11-30

The well-attended CMES panel in Almedalen on gender-just peace in the Middle East is now available on YouTube (in Swedish)! Gender-Just Peace in the Middle East - Is It Possible? (Jämställd fred i Mellanöstern – är det möjligt?) July 6, 2022, 13:45-14:45, Hästgatan 13 in Visby How is the UN's Women, Peace and Security agenda implemented in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)? What is needed fo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-panel-discussion-almedalen-gender-just-peace-middle-east - 2025-11-30

The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to the human body, and the rising temperatures may make certain areas very hard to live in by the end of this century. High temperatures in combination with humid air may cause extreme heat known as wet bulb temperature, or

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2025-11-30

Congratulations to Laleh Foroughanfar for successfully defending her thesis "The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö"! Dr. Laleh Foroughanfar has successfully defended her PhD thesis The Street of Associations - Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö. The thesis addresses issues related to t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/laleh-foroughanfar-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-11-30

The World is Burning is a photo exhibition about the causes and effects of wildfires in the anthropocene. It opens on Sept. 17 at 12:30 and runs until October 10 in the garden of the Pufendorf Institute. All are welcome! Over the last years, wildfires have become more frequent and now constitute a global threat to life on earth. The risk of wildfire is affected by climate change and weather factor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-wildfire-photo-exhibition-world-burning - 2025-11-30

CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about the recent floods in Pakistan in Dagens Nyheter. The article was written (in Swedish) by Alexandra Urisman Otto and published on August 30, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. More than 30 million people have been affected as large parts of Pakistan are under water, many of them being forced to le

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-about-climate-migration-pakistan-dagens-nyheter - 2025-11-30

CMES scholar Helen Avery organized a well-attended and successful two-day workshop on community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation. The workshop, "Community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation of agriculture and water management in remote rural areas – short- and long-term strategies to support resilience, agility and food security", was held at the Columbia Global Cen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yemeni-capacity-building-workshop-climate-adaptation - 2025-11-30

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Linking Hydro-Physical Variables and Landscape Metrics using Advanced Data Mining for Stream-Flow Prediction" together with Vahid Moosavi (Tarbiat Modares University), Ayoob Karami (Pooyeshgaran Forogh Fardad Consulting Eng., Science and Technology Park), Negin Behnia (Yazd University) and Christian Massari (Research Institute for

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-and-predicting-streamflow-iran - 2025-11-30