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Thorsteinn Kristinsson has co-authored three chapters in the forthcoming book ”Small States and Shelter Theory: Iceland’s External Affairs”.  Through a re-examination of the history of Iceland’s external relations, the book proposes a new theoretical framework with which to understand the place of small political entities in world politics. Further information about the publication can be found on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kristinsson-small-states-and-shelter-theory - 2025-11-21

Johannes Lindvall and Per Andersson, who defended his dissertation at the department in 2017, has just published the article ”Crises, investments, and political institutions” in the Journal of Theoretical Politics. The article is based on a game-theoretic analysis of decision-making under different types of institutions.Read the article on Sage Journals’ websiteJohannes Lindvall’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-decision-making-under-different-types-institutions - 2025-11-21

What influences the likelihood that an individual joins a radical group? Hanna Bäck and Niklas Altermark have, together with Emma Bäck and Holly Knapton, studied this question in an experimental study. The results show that when experiencing social exclusion, highly rejection sensitive individuals tend to adapt to the radical group’s opinionsThe researchers write more about their results in the ar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-and-altermark-radicalization - 2025-11-21

Karin Aggestam has together with Ann Towns, Gothenburg University, authored the article ”The gender turn in diplomacy: a new research agenda”. The article is published in International Feminist Journal of Politics. Learn more on tandfonline.comKarin Aggestam’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-gender-and-diplomacy - 2025-11-21

Jan Teorell is a new member of the Skytte Prize Committee, which is one of the largest academic prizes in the field of Political Science. - I expect to learn even more about the already vast, heterogeneous and growing field of political science. I have some previous experience with being on prize committees for the American Political Science Association, but nothing on this scale or level of gener

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-joins-skytte-prize-committee - 2025-11-21

Annika Björkdahl has authored the article ”Republika Srpska: Imaginary, performance and spatialization”, which has been published in Political Geography. This article is about the becoming of states and how such states are a socially constructed spaces, imagined and performed by those who perceive themselves as belonging to that state. It asks through what imaginaries and performative practices do

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-becoming-states - 2025-11-21

Jakob Skovgaard co-edited and contributed to the book "The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform” (Cambridge University Press). The book offers a range of insights into why fossil fuel subsidies continue to persist despite agreement among experts about the benefits of reform, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to reform them. Fo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-11-21

Do female representatives participate less often in legislative debates, and does it matter which topic is debated? Hanna Bäck and Marc Debus answer this question by analyzing speechmaking among members of parliament in seven European countries.  The results show that female members are under-represented in legislative debates, especially when debates deal with topics that can be characterized as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-how-female-and-male-representatives-debate-different-parliaments - 2025-11-21

In the recently-published article “Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe, 1900-2017”, Jan Teorell, together with Michael Coppedge, Staffan Lindberg and Svend-Erik Skaaning, presents a new measure of polyarchy for a global sample of 182 countries from 1900 to 2017 based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) expert poll data. This new democracy index is directly anchored in Dahl’s (1971) extremely in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-measuring-democracy - 2025-11-21

Catarina Kinnvall has together with Ian Manners and Jennifer Mitzen edited a special issue of European Security, entitled “Ontological (In)Security in the European Union”. The European Union (EU) faces many crises and risks to its security and existence. While few of them threaten the lives of EU citizens, they all create a sense of anxiety and insecurity about the future for many ordinary Europea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-ontological-security-eu - 2025-11-21

Fabio Cristiano has contributed with the chapter “Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian Territory" to the newly published volume Human Rights as Battlefields. In his chapter, Cristiano explores the controversial correlation between technology and political freedoms by questioning the inclusion of internet access into the human rights agenda. Drawing fro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-digital-rights-and-palestine - 2025-11-21

Christer Jönsson has contributed with two book chapters. The first book chapter is "Lessons for Democracy: Diplomacy to the Rescue?" which has been published in the book Democracy under Threat: A Crisis of Legitimacy?. The second book chapter is "Evolution in Knowlege and Norms" (co-author Leon Gordenker) which has been published in the book “The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations” (2nd edition

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/christer-jonsson-new-publications - 2025-11-21

Douglas Brommesson has co-authored the newly published article “Teaching university teachers to become better teachers: the effects of pedagogical training courses at six Swedish universities”,  which has been publish in “Higher Education Research & Development”. The article can be found on tandfonline.comDouglas Brommesson's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-effects-pedagogical-training-courses - 2025-11-21

Catarina Kinnvall has recently published the article “Ontological Insecurities and Postcolonial Imaginaries: The Emotional Appeal of Populism” in Humanity & Society”. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall addresses the particular narratives and discourses that respond to increased feelings of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear, so-called ontological insecurities, and their connections to the postcolonial

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-ontological-insecurities - 2025-11-21

Josef Chaib will defend his dissertation "Evidence, Expertise and 'Other' Knowledge: Governing Welfare Collaboration" on October 12 at 10:15 in Niagara, Malmö University. Discussant is Associate Professor Gun Hedlund, Örebro University. In contemporary welfare, collaboration between professions, agencies and different municipal departments is increasingly important. Collaboration is seen as a way

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/josef-chaib-welfare-collaboration - 2025-11-21

Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have authored an introductory article for their joint special issue in “Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD)”, with the title “Ontological security and conflict: the dynamics of crisis and the constitution of community”. In an era defined by insecurity, uncertainty, and increasing anxieties, ontological security has proven to be a fruitful

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fruitful-lens-analyzing-world-politics - 2025-11-21

How is EU-funding translated into local policy? In an article in the journal Critical Policy Studies, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Mats Fred have analyzed how EU-projects in education policies are mediated and translated into local policies. They conclude that these processes entail both a change in organisation - from permanent to temporary endeavors - as well as changes in how problems and challen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-funding-translated-local-policy - 2025-11-21

Kurtis Boyer defended his dissertation "An Autocracy of Empathy: Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism" on October 26 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund. Discussant was Professor Erika Cudworth, University of East London.An Autocracy of Empathy: Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism Kurtis Boyer’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kurtis-boyer-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-21

After four years of drafting, debating, rethinking, and revising, the IPSP report is finally published with Cambridge University Press. Karin Aggestam is one of many contributing lead authors. Read more on ipsp.orgKarin Aggestams personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-international-report-rethinking-society-21st-century - 2025-11-21

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Policy coherence and organizational cultures: Energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction targets” in the journal Environmental Policy and Governance. The article concerns the role of the organizational cultures of two of the European Commission’s Directorate-Generals, respectively Energy and Climate Action, for the policy coherence within EU energy an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-policy-coherence-and-eu-climate-and-energy-policies - 2025-11-21