Published 23 January 2025 Associate Professor Julie Hassing Nielsen's and Associate Professor Agustin Goenaga's findings indicate that exposure to the economic costs of pandemic strategies was not only associated with more critical views towards public health measures, but that it also made citizens more likely to see them as violations to democratic rights. Popular science summary: Business owner

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/danish-business-owners-more-critical-democratic-institutions-their-swedish-counterparts-during-covid - 2025-07-05

Published 29 January 2025 Political parties in Western Europe are more responsive to voters than you might think. Across seven key political issues, Ibenskas and Polk found that parties adjust their positions to better match public opinion. Hypothetical example of responsiveness. Using data from the Chapel Hill Expert Surveys, European Social Survey, and the European Election Study, the study reve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/do-political-parties-western-europe-listen-their-voters - 2025-07-05

Published 28 January 2025 Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-suggestion-of-clearing-out-gaza-adds-another-risk-to-an-already-fragile-ceasefire-248334Karin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-conversation-karin-aggestam-about-fragile-ceasefire-gaza-and-future-diplomatic - 2025-07-05

Published 10 February 2025 How should the Russian war against Ukraine reshape the way we teach International Relations (IR) and European Union (EU) studies? In a groundbreaking new article, Professor Ian Manners argues that Ukraine serves as a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift—one that moves beyond traditional IR frameworks to embrace planetary politics. Published as the lead article in a speci

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rethinking-international-relations-russian-war-against-ukraine-and-shift-planetary-politics - 2025-07-05

Published 20 February 2025 Associate Professor Magdalena Bexell, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors that are organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry. This industry links states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Employing concepts from organizational theory and the study

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2025-07-05

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-05

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-manners-receives-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatical-grant-writing-book-european-unions - 2025-07-05

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/

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forum-jens-bartelsons-becoming-international-global-intellectual-history - 2025-07-05

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-production-gendered-knowledge-war-women-and - 2025-07-05

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-linda-eitrem-holmgren-gender-just-political-citizenship-and-peacebuilding-northern-ireland - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

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 - 2025-07-05

Published 1 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström and Jakob Skovgaard have penned the article "Previewing Paris 2015: The EU's ‘Leadiator’ Role in Future Climate Change Negotiations" published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online, "the flagship publication of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service".Together with their online-version the journal publishes articles

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-och-skovgaard-climate-change-negotiations - 2025-07-05

Published 2 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Martin Hall (2014) have written the article ’Cooperation and Conflict’, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 26:4. Learn more.    

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-hall-cooperation-and-conflict - 2025-07-05

Published 3 January 2015 The Department of Political Science (University of Gothenburg) announces the availability of six fully funded doctoral student positions. Apply by March 2. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ph-d-candidate-positions-gothenburg-0 - 2025-07-05

Published 5 January 2015 Welcome to the Department of Political Science, Spring term 2015 Follow this link to find relevant information about the courses on offer in English, spring term 2015.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/compulsory-introductory-meetings-admitted-students-and-incoming-exchange-students - 2025-07-05

Published 7 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored “The Nordic States and Gender Cosmopolitanism” published in the DIIS conference proceedings Nordic Foreign and Security Policy, Danish Institute for International Studies. December 2014.Learn more.  

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nordic-states-and-gender-cosmopolitanism - 2025-07-05

Published 8 January 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Catarina Kinnvall gave a presentation yesterday for The Tony Blair Foundation on the theme 'Hinduism as a Transnational Force' at a workshop in Pristina, Kososvo. The theme of the workshop was ’Religion and Conflict: Practical Policy Responses’ (An intensive training course for diplomats, public officials and professionals on faith and globalization).L

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hinduism-transnational-force - 2025-07-05

Published 11 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has written Women, Peace and Security - and Denmark published by Danish Institute for International Studies, 2014. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-women-peace-and-security - 2025-07-05

Published 9 January 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Sara Kalm has, together with Sofia Näsström, penned the article ”A democratic critique of precarity” which has recently been published in the journal Global Discourse. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-och-nasstrom-global-discourse - 2025-07-05