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RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Karin Aggestam will participate in a seminar on ”The Future of Palestine” at University of Southern Denmark, 12 December 2015. Seminar-programme (PDF)Karin Aggestam
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-future-palestine - 2025-10-05
Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have received a grant of 120 000 SEK from Sieps – The Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies - to investigate “success factors in EU agricultural negotiations”, with a special focus on the Nordic EU-members’ influence in the latest CAP reform process. The resulting report, based mainly on interviews in Stockholm and Brussels, will be presented in Apri
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-success-factors-eu-agricultural-negotiations-receives-120-000-sek - 2025-10-05
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has written a chapter, “External Perceptions of the EU: Obstacle or Asset in the Fight Against Global Imbalances?" in The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances. This volume is an updated version of a book published in Swedish in 2014.Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim och Thomas Persson (eds), The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imb
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu-0 - 2025-10-05
One of the articles in Roger Hildingsson dissertation will be published in the journal "Energy Policy" in January and is already available online. AbstractClimate change is a central sustainability concern, but is often treated separately from other policy areas in environmental governance. In this article we study how low-carbon energy transitions might be governed in line with broader sustainabi
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Oxford University Press has recently published a extensive Handbook of Swedish Politics. The book involves 48 scholars, mostly political scientists, seven of these from Lund: Rikard Bengtsson, Douglas Brommesson, Hanna Bäck, Ole Elgström, Johannes Lindvall, Annika Bergman Rosamond och Malena Rosén Sundström.The book covers a wide range of different aspects of Swedish poli
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seven-political-scientists-lund-extensive-handbook-swedish-politics - 2025-10-05
Kristina Jönsson's (et al.) article Health policy evolution in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: context, processes and agency is one of the top downloaded articles from 2015 in Health Policy and Planning. Health Policy and Planning publishes high quality health policy and systems research that aims to inform policy and practice in low- and middle-income countries.Learn more on oxfordjournals.orgK
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonssons-health-policy-evolution-one-top-downloaded-articles - 2025-10-05
Maysam Behravesh has got a new position as a "Research Fellow" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, and will start working there in January 2016 while continuing to complete his PhD at the Department. CMES was founded in 2007 in an effort to support and coordinate research on the Middle East and North Africa and has since become an institutional hub in Scandinavia for
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/behravesh-new-research-fellow - 2025-10-05
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have co-authored the article "A tale of three bridges: agency and agonism in peace building", published in Third World. AbstractThis article explores agonistic processes of peace, which are situated within and constitutive of different spaces and places. Three contested cities, Sarajevo, Mostar and Višegrad in Bosnia-Herze
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-mannergren-selimovic-have-co-authored-article-about-peace-building - 2025-10-05
OUTREACH: Angela Oels is a panelist in a big discussion on the outcomes of the Paris climate summit hosted in Lund by the Association of Foreign Affairs. Learn more on facebook.comAngela Oels personal page here at the Department’s website
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/big-discussion-about-paris-climate-summit - 2025-10-05
Annika Fredén defended her dissertation "Strategic Voting under Coalition Governments " on February 5 at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Associate professor Indridi Indridason, University of California Riverside, USA.Strategic Voting under Coalition GovernmentsAnnika Fredén
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-freden-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-05
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “The Postcolonial has Moved into Europe: Bordering, Security and Ethno-Cultural Belonging” AbstractThe legacy of European colonialisms and nationalisms has conditioned immigration and citizenship policies that inform the postcolonial move into Europe. This article questions the assumptions that undergird conceptions of boundary,
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-postcolonial-has-moved-europe - 2025-10-05
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Emil Edenborg has published "The secret funerals in Pskov: Spectacles of war and spectres from the past” in the Newsletter of the Institute of East European, Eurasian and Slavic Studies, UC Berkeley. Read the text on iseees.berkeley.edu (pdf, page 11)Emil Edenborg’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/edenborg-secret-funerals-pskov - 2025-10-05
The European Union (EU) often presents itself as a champion of LGBTQ rights, promoting equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. However, in a recently published article in a special issue of Journal of Common Market Studies, doctoral student Malte Breiding argues that this work does not always produce the intended outcomes. Breiding explores a surprising twist: as the EU pushe
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/can-eus-push-lgbt-rights-backfire-new-article-malte-breiding-says-it-might - 2025-10-05
Halting biodiversity loss requires more than just increased funding – it also demands better governance of how resources are mobilised, allocated, and monitored. A new study in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability reviews recent research on how biodiversity finance actually works. Researchers Jesper Svensson, Julia Qian Mao, and Nils Droste analysed studies published between 2019 and 20
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-should-own-nature-new-study-examines-governance-biodiversity-finance - 2025-10-05
Anne Lene Stein has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel'. Congratulations to Dr. Stein! External Reviewer: Professor Michael Schulz, University of GothenburgSupervisor: Lisa StrömbomAssistant supervisor: Anders UhlinMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Port
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anne-lene-stein-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-05
During the pandemic, many fell through the cracks of the safety net. For people with long Covid, this became painfully clear: they existed – but were not acknowledged. Now, a new study from Lund University shows how ordinary citizens, in the midst of illness, organised digitally and challenged the authorities’ narrative of what Covid really is. When the body gives out but society turns a blind eye
In this article, recently published in Acta Sociologica, Mats Fred draws on more than a decade of fieldwork on social investments in Sweden to explore the rise and fall of reforms: How are reforms kept alive? What happens when key actors leave, networks dissolve, and governance priorities shift? In the 2010s, the idea of social investments gained traction as a key to preventive, evidence-based, an
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-investments-swedish-municipalities-rise-and-fall-reform - 2025-10-05
Ketevan Bolkvadze, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, has published a new article in Governance titled "Corrupt or Repressive? How Political Competition Incentivizes Hybrid Regimes to Subvert Police in Distinct Ways." The study explores how varying levels of political competition in hybrid regimes influence whether police forces are used for corruption or repression. Drawing o
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-publishes-new-study-police-subversion-hybrid-regimes - 2025-10-05
Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have published a chapter on Sweden’s former Feminist Foreign Policy (2014-2022) and how it was implemented in diplomatic work. The chapter, “To Practice What You Preach: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Diplomatic Work” is part of the book Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States: A Gender-Just Climate Emergency Response, published by Routledge wi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-and-elgstrom-swedens-former-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-10-05
Ian Manners has edited the twentieth anniversary special issue on ‘Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis', published September 2025. This twentieth anniversary special issue broadens the horizons beyond the 2013 Cooperation and Conflict special issue to develop the normative power approach through a prospective on the use of normative power in addressing the planetary organic crisis. The
