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NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Hanna Bäck has co-authored the article The social activist: conformity to the ingroup following rejection as a predictor of political participation, which has recently been published in Social Influence. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-activist-published-social-influence - 2025-11-04
RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Erik Ringmar visits our sister department in Gothenburg to speak about his new book Liberal Barbarism (20 October 2014). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-speaks-about-his-new-book-liberal-barbarism - 2025-11-04
ANNOUNCED POSITION. The department of Business administration announces a position as a PhD student specifically focused on public management (political science students are encouraged to apply) Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-position-political-science-students - 2025-11-04
NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Annika Bergman Rosamond has co-authored the chapter "New Political Community and Governance at the Top of the World: Spatiality, Affinity and Security in the Arctic" which is included in the recently published anthology "Governing Borders and Security. The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal" (Routledge). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/spatiality-affinity-and-security-arctic - 2025-11-04
PROJECT SUPPORT. Ted Svensson and Catia Gregoratti have each been granted two months’ worth of research time (by the Faculty of Social Sciences) to refine their research ideas and turn them into formal funding applications. Ted SvenssonCatia Gregoratti
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/refining-research-ideas - 2025-11-04
NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall & Ted Svensson are the editors of the recently published anthology Governing Borders and Security. The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal (Routledge). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-anthology-governing-borders-and-security - 2025-11-04
NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Niklas Altermark has penned the article "The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability: reconstituting the ‘disordered’ brain", which has recently been published in Disability & Society. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reconstituting-disordered-brain - 2025-11-04
Uppsala university announces 3 PhD student positions in peace and conflict research with focus on international water cooperation. Apply by November 3. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-positions-uppsala - 2025-11-04
RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Mi Lennhag lectures on the EU, bureaucracy, transparency and anti-corruption work, as part of the Swedish Institute’s Summer Academy for Young Professionals (aimed at post-Soviet country residents). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lecture-eu-bureaucracy-transparency-and-anti-corruption-work - 2025-11-04
NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Jens Bartelson discusses David Armitages’s book "Foundations of Modern International Thought", in a special review article in "Contemporary Political Theory". Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/review-foundations-modern-international-thought - 2025-11-04
RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Fariborz Zelli organises a side event at the UN climate change conference in Lima (December 4). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zellis-event-beside-climate-change-conference - 2025-11-04
STUDENT NEWS: EU External Action welcomes application for international internships in 2015. Apply no later than December 5. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/international-internships - 2025-11-04
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has written the chapter Leader, Bridge-builder or ‘Hobbled Giant’? Perceptions of the EU in Climate-Change Negotiations that is included in the recently published anthology Communicating Europe in Time of Crisis: External Perceptions of the European Union (Palgrave). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/leader-bridge-builder-or-hobbled-giant - 2025-11-04
RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen was recently included in an international group of researchers that prepared a report for the Nordic Council of Ministers working group for global climate negotiations ahead of the current COP20 UN negotiations. Tobias Nielsen
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/preparing-report-global-climate-negotiations - 2025-11-04
RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen talks about Ecuador’s Socio Bosque and Peru’s Programa Bosque as Role Models? at a UN climate conference side-event (Dec. 4). REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest ProtectionREDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of criticism to it, a number of fu
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-talks-about-south-american-role-models - 2025-11-04
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article Coalitions and Compensation. The Case of Unemployment Benefit Duration which has recently been published in Comparative Political Studies. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-and-lindvall-comparative-political-studies - 2025-11-04
Varieties of Democracy Institute (University of Gothenburg) announces a call for postdocs and research fellows. Apply by January 23. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/announced-position-gothenburg - 2025-11-04
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: International Politics of Recognition, a book co-edited by Erik Ringmar, is the subject of a book symposium in the latest issue of the Global Discourse journal Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmars-book-discussed-global-discourse-journal - 2025-11-04
Dear students and other visitors: be advised that the department building Eden closes at 5 PM on Thursday, 11 December. Learn more about Eden's opening hours over the holiday and New Year.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eden-closes-early-11-december - 2025-11-04
On December 18, the department’s new site will launch. The incoming webmaster welcomes you back then! New web – new webmasterOn December 18, the department’s new web site will be launched. On that date, Emma Lord will succeed Mikael Sundström as webmaster (Mikael returns to his full time duties as Senior Lecturer after a stint extending back to the inception of our site), and will be in charge of
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-website - 2025-11-04
