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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Magdalena Bexell has contributed the chapter "The Post-2015 Consultations: Fig Leaf Policy or Test Bed for Innovation?" in the newly published book "Global Trends. Prospects for World Society" Abstract:The United Nations (UN)-led global consultations on new development goals, which will replace the Millennium Developm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-discussions-about-new-un-millennium-development-goals - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Erik Ringmar's lecture, "Nomadic political theory," at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, on June 24, 2015, is now available online: Links:"Nomadic political theory"Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmars-lecture-nomadic-political-theory-now-available-online - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic have published ”'Global' Norms and ’Local' Agency: Frictional Peacebuilding in Kosovo" in Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract:This article explores how the ‘liberal democratic peace package’ is received in post-conflict spaces. As such,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-gusic-problems-liberal-peacebuilding - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Greener than expected? EU finance ministries address climate finance" in the journal Environmental Politics. Abstract:Climate finance constitutes an integral part of the European Union’s climate policy. Yet, climate policy is increasingly addressed b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-eu-climate-policy - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond presented her research on Celebrity Interventionism at the Centre for International Intervention, Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK, 23 July 2015. Link:Narratives of Intervention: Perspectives from North and South

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-presents-her-research - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The department is currently hosting two respectable journals. And both of them are doing well under the stewardship. Both "Cooperation and Conflict", edited by Annika Björkdahl, Martin Hall, Ted Svensson, Lisa Strömbom and Maysam Behravesh, and "Political Psychology", edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Hanna Bäck, have i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/journals-hosted-department-increase-impact-factors - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has written the article "Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe", recently published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Abstract:In this article I analyze how far right movements and parties in Europe are challenging European notions o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-european-far-right - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article "Demography and Democracy: A Global, District-level Analysis of Electoral Contestation" in American Political Science Review. Among the co-authors is John Gerring (Boston University). Abstract:"According to the classical perspective, polity size and democ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-democracy-and-size-polities - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall is the co-author and co-editor of an introductory essay to a special issue of Political Psychology. The introduction of the essay:Narratives are the stories people construct to make sense of their reality. Narratives help usunderstand who we are, where we come from, and the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-narratives-regarding-security - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Erik Ringmar's latest book, Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palance of the Emperor of China, has been reviewed in the Political Studies Review. "During October 1860, British and French troops looted Yuanmingyuan at the outskirts of Beijing. The sacking of what is commonly known in the Western World

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmars-book-reviewed - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren have authored the article "Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the national: protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda" in the journal Conflict, Security and Development 15(4). Abstr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1325 - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren have authored the article "Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the national: protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda" in the journal Conflict, Security and Development 15(4). Abstr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1325-0 - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: The book "Rethinking the Green State. Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions" has just been published by Routledge. Editors are Karin Bäckstrand and Annica Kronsell, with chapter contributions from other researchers at the department: Rickard Andersson, Roger

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-rethinking-green-state - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ole Elgström has contributed with the chapter "Negotiating a New World Order: The EU and Multilateral Diplomacy at Times of Change" in the book The Diplomatic System of the European Union (edited by Michael Smith, Stephan Keukeleire and Sophie Vanhoonacker), published by Routledge. LinksMore about the book.Ole Elgströ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-eu-diplomacy - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam has co-authored The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Is there a meeting point between nationalism and hydro solidarity? in the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education. Karin AggestamRead the article n the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Educ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-hydro-solidarity-nationalism-and-ethiopian-renaissance-dam - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Erik Ringmar's article, "How the World-Stage Makes Its Subjects: An Embodied Critique of Constructivist IR Theory," has just been published by the Journal of International Relations and Development. ”The world is a stage and it is only by appearing on this world stage that the state becomes r

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmar-performance-politics - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: The volume EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict is recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. Sara Kalm and Håkan Johansson from The School of Social Work (LU) are co-editors and authors of the introductory chapter. Ylva Stubbergaard contributes the chapter "Conf

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-stubbergaard-and-hedling-new-book-eu-civil-society - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström and Natalia Chaban, University of Canterbury, have written the chapter "Studying External Perceptions of the EU: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches" in the e-book Looking in from the Outside: Perceptions of the EU in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Editors: Veit Bach

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has co-authored the article ”The ’Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy and Authority versus the ’Local’" which highlights the field and the semantic and socio-political meaning of the term as it is used in both academic research and policy practices. ”The ’Fie

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-analyses-field - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The course “Climate Change: a question of justice?” will be held just in time for the UN climate summit in Paris in December and is open to all with no registration fee. The Department of Political Science is collaborating with the Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Programme in Environmental Sciences (infernum) at H

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/un-climate-summit-paris-focus-interactive-open-online-course - 2026-07-01