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Daniel Gustafsson has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'The Present People'. Congratulations! Abstract In modern political thought, one of the most recalcitrant, and increasingly pressing, questions of modern democracy is whether, and in what sense, the people can be present. While the presence of the people has, and continues to be, the sine qua non of the democratic form of government,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/daniel-gustafsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-09

In the interview The Local Sweden journalist Richard Orange set out how the far-right Sweden Democrats have tried to fire up the long-dormant debate over Sweden's membership of the European Union. Lund University professor Ian Manners spoke about what it means and what to do about it. In tweets, interviews, one article in the Aftonbladet tabloid and a second one in Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, Swe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/manners-how-best-respond-sweden-democrats-swexit-gamble - 2025-10-09

Sindre Gade Viksand has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'A World of Persons'. Congratulations! Abstract This is a study of subjecthood in international thought. Human beings and states, while often held to be opposed to one another, share this: they are international thought’s key subjects. The following chapters attempt to answer the question of why that is. The main argument advanced i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sindre-gade-viksand-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-09

Simon Davidsson has been awarded the Swedish Political Science Association's prize for best thesis by younger researchers presented at the association's annual meeting 2022. Davidsson is awarded the prize for the thesis Testing Paths to Strong Parties in Western Europe or the Efficient Secret Shared. The motivation reads: Davidsson's essay is a careful examination of explanations for the developme

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/simon-davidsson-has-been-awarded-swedish-political-science-associations-prize - 2025-10-09

Isabel Bramsen has written the chapter ‘The web of relations shaping the Philippine peace talks’ in the book Relational Peace Practices edited by Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo. The chapter investigates the interaction between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) during peace talks and discusses this in relation to the larger web of relations shaping t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-web-relations-shaping-philippine-peace-talks - 2025-10-09

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article ‘The Abraham Accords’ implications for peace in the Middle East’, published in the latest issue of Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. The Abraham Accords, signed by Israel and four Arab states in 2020, were one of President Donald Trump’s most renowned foreign policy successes. But what type of peace has emerged following the Abraham Accords? Departing from the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-abraham-accords-implications-peace-middle-east - 2025-10-09

Stina Melander, Julia Bahner and Oskar Krantz have published the article “The Personal is Political – And Then What? Ideology, Representation, and Legitimacy in a Swedish Disability Organisation.” in Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. Abstract Background: Who can or cannot claim to represent other members within the disability rights movement has been discussed for decades, mainly concer

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stina-melander-co-authors-ideology-representation-and-legitimacy-swedish-disability-organisation - 2025-10-09

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article ”The two-state impasse in Israel/Palestine – The EU caught between egalitarian norms and expansionist realpolitik”, in Frontiers in Political Science. For many years, international actors have viewed a two-state solution based on democratic rights for both peoples in their respective nation-state as the silver-bullet that can solve the Israeli-Palestinian

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-eu-between-democratic-principles-and-expansionist-israeli-ideals - 2025-10-09

Karin Aggestam and Linda Eitrem Holmgren have co-authored the article ”The Women, Peace, and Security in the Middle East and North Africa, which is part of a special issue in Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. Read the article (in Swedish) here: https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/25239/22259 Karin Aggestam’s page: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam Linda Eitrem Holmgren’s page: https://www

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-eitrem-holmgren-women-peace-and-security-middle-east - 2025-10-09

Scholars acknowledge the existence of intra-party divisions and the potentially negative electoral effects of disunity. Some assume that intra-party divides are between professional politicians and grassroots members, others highlight the importance of ideological blocs. Yet, precisely mapping factional structures, especially ideological factions, is difficult because of the “black box of intra- p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-ann-kristin-kolln-and-jonathan-polk-intra-party-politics-comparative-political-studies - 2025-10-09

Elias Isaksson has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Between Growth and Sustainability: Exploring the Construction of Sustainable Mobility in Swedish Transport Policy'. Congratulations! Abstract Transport policies in Western Europe are increasingly framed in terms of sustainable mobility. This is a response to an urgent need to tackle adverse consequences of the transport system and impli

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elias-isaksson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-09

In their article, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson read the COVID-19 pandemic from a Lacanian perspective, in which trauma and ontological insecurity are at the heart of the analysis. They argue that a psychoanalytical approach allows us to grasp why the most common response to the pandemic consisted of intensified commitments to home, nationalism, and exclusionary bordering practices and, in ef

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-isq-article-state-responses-covid-19-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson - 2025-10-09

New article by Jonathan Polk and Guri Rosén on trade and the transnational cleavage in Journal of European Public Policy. Theorists of the transnational cleavage, defined as a political reaction against European integration and immigration, also regularly conceptualise international trade preferences as a component of this contemporary societal divide. Yet empirical analyses of this cleavage focus

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-and-rosen-transnational-cleavage-and-party-positioning-trade - 2025-10-09

Agnese Pacciardi has recently published an article on the securitisation of migrants’ mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. By analysing newspaper articles and declarations by the Italian government and prominent politicians, she shows how this securitisation has relied on gendered and rationalised notions deeply entrenched in colonial modernity. Author: Agnese Pacciardi  Title: Viral bo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agnese-pacciardi-securitisation-migration-and-mobility-during-covid-19 - 2025-10-09

Mats Fred and Sebastian Godenhjelm are editors of the anthology "Projectification of Organizations, Governance and Societies - Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Implications". The book gathers a nascent field of research on projectification by consolidating a network of Scandinavian researchers with similar interests. The hope is that this can lead to a "Scandinavian School of Projectificatio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-anthology-starting-point-scandinavian-school-projectification-research - 2025-10-09

The university’s new professors will be inaugurated in a ceremony at the main University Building on 13th October 2023 at 16:00. Among the new professors are our colleagues Jonathan Polk, Robert Klemmensen and Fariborz Zelli. The ceremony includes the official inaugurations by the vice-chancellor, performances by the Academic Orchestra and addresses by some of the new professors and the chair of L

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/inauguration-ceremony-new-professors-13-october-three-political-scientists - 2025-10-09

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have co-authored the article ”Digital Norm Contestation and Feminist Foreign Policy, published in the journal International Studies Perspectives. Abstract: This article examines the role of digital norm contestation in feminist foreign policy (FFP). It analyzes how states that participate in digital diplomacy are involved in challenging and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-digital-norm-contestation-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-10-09

Isabel Bramsen and Anine Hagemann have published a new article, ”How research travels to policy: the case of Nordic peace research". The article investigates how Peace Research affects the policies and practice of peace in the Nordic countries. Based on interviews with researchers and practitioners the article identifies four “travelers ”that connects research and practice: students, findings, con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-hagemann-investigates-how-peace-research-affects-policies-and-practice - 2025-10-09

Does a perceived threat increase affective polarization? And what is the role of emotional reactions to threat in increasing hostility and bias toward other parties’ supporters? Hanna Bäck has together with Emma Renström and Royce Carroll analyzed these questions in two experimental studies performed in Sweden and Germany. They show that people who react with anger to a perceived threat to the ing

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-threats-emotions-and-affective-polarization - 2025-10-09

Can political elites influence affective polarization among the voters through their social media communication? Does the content of their communication matter or is it enough to get a neutral message from a representative of your favorite or most hated party? Hanna Bäck, Royce Carroll, Emma Renström, and Alexander Ryan have tried to answer these questions in a survey experiment. They show that vo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elite-communication-and-affective-polarization - 2025-10-09