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Rikard Bengtsson and Malena Rosén Sundström are the editors of the book “The EU and the emerging global order”, a book in honour of Ole Elgström upon his retirement. The book contains a number of contributions from Swedish and international authors active in Ole Elgström’s different research areas. From the department, Christer Jönsson and Anders Persson have contributed chapters to the volume.Rea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-and-rosen-sundstrom-editors-new-book-eu-and-global-order - 2025-10-25

Christer Jönsson and Anders Johnsson have co-authored the article "Parliaments in Global Governance” in the journal ”Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations”. Existing research on the role of parliaments in global governance has emphasized the history, structure and formal powers of international parliamentary institutions and their efforts to forge links wit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-parliaments-global-governance - 2025-10-25

The edited volume ”Europeanization in Sweden: Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations” (editors Anna Meeuwisse och Roberto Scaramuzzino) has recently been published by Berghahn Books. Three department colleagues have contributed. Elsa Hedling has, together with Anna Meeuwisse, co-authored the chapter "Access to the European Union and the Role of Domestic Embeddedness”Ylva Stub

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-volume-about-europeanization-sweden - 2025-10-25

Ole Elgström has, together with Natalia Chaban and Michèle Knodt, co-authored the article ”Perceptions of EU mediation and mediation effectiveness: Comparing perspectives from Ukraine and the EU”, which has been published in the journal Cooperation and Conflict. The authors analyse the European Union (EU) as ‘an effective peacemaker’. They contribute to this field by investigating perceptions of E

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-mediation-effectiveness-russia-ukraine-conflict - 2025-10-25

Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “Bureaucratic politics and the allocation of climate finance” with Lauri Peterson (Uppsala University). The article is published in the journal World Development. It concerns how bureaucratic politics has influenced the allocation of aid for climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. An important insight from the article is that the level

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-bureaucratic-politics-and-allocation-climate-aid-between-developing-countries - 2025-10-25

The refugee crisis of 2015 forced Sweden and its citizens to face politically and morally difficult questions about migration, human rights and the nation state. Different perspectives on these issues within political theory are discussed by Björn Östbring in his dissertation which he defended today. In the public debate it is easy to discern two camps expressing opposing and deeply held moral bel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorn-ostbring-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-25

Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the article ”Re-politicising the Gender-Security Nexus: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy”. The article is published in a special issue on the politicisation of security in the  journal European Review of International Studies. The article analyses the politicisation of the WPS- (Women, Peace and Security) agenda and global gender mainstre

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-re-politicising-gender-security-nexus - 2025-10-25

Karin Aggestam and Lisa Strömbom have contributed with a chapter ”Peacebuilding in the Middle East” to Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security (eds. A. Jägerskog, et al) The chapter analyses peacebuilding in the Middle East with focus on four subdomains and regions: Security sector reforms in Tunisia; Women, peace, security in Iraq; youth and peace activism in Lebanon; and environmental coopera

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-strombom-peace-building-middle-east - 2025-10-25

Hanna Bäck, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell have, together with Carl Dahlström and Elin Naurin, co-authored the article “Sweden’s Parliamentary Democracy at 100”, which has been published in the journal Parliamentary Affairs. The article assesses how Swedish parliamentary democracy works today, almost one hundred years into its history.Learn more on doi.org Personal pages:Hanna BäckJohannes Lind

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-lindvall-and-teorell-swedens-parliamentary-democracy - 2025-10-25

Jan Teorell and Staffan Lindberg have written the article ”Beyond Democracy-Dictatorship Measures: A New Framework Capturing Executive Bases of Power, 1789-2016”, which has been published in the journal “Perspectives on Politics”. This article attempts to integrate the literatures on authoritarian regime types and democratic forms of government by proposing a theoretical framework of five dimensio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/authoritarian-regime-and-democratic-forms-government - 2025-10-25

Tobias Dan Nielsen, Karl Holmberg and Johannes Stripple have co-authored the article ”Need a bag? A review of public policies on plastic carrier bags – Where, how and to what effect?”, which has been published in the journal Waste Management. The plastic carrier bag epitomises many of the features that have transformed plastics into a material that defines our contemporary modern culture. The vers

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/need-bag - 2025-10-25

Ivan Gusic has published the article ”The relational spatiality of the postwar condition: A study of the city of Mitrovica”, which has been published in Political Geography. The article is about how postwar societies both shape and are shaped by postwar spaces, depicting this theoretical argument through the postwar city of Mitrovica (Kosovo). Read the article on sciencedirect.comIvan Gusic’s pers

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gusic-how-war-and-peace-interplay-space - 2025-10-25

Jan Teorell has authored the chapter “Measuring Institutions: What We Do Not Know“ in the book “A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics” (the editors are C. Ménard and M. Shirley). This is a chapter in an edited volume issue by and, first and foremost, for economists. Its overarching theme is the future research agenda within the theoretical perspective called “New Institutional Economic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-measurement-institutions - 2025-10-25

Tobias Nielsen and Fariborz Zelli have together with four other researchers co-authored the article ”What future for primates? Conservation struggles in the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria”, which has been published in the journal ”Sustainability Science”. In this article, the authors analyse the impacts of human-induced faunal loss and the associated multi-level governance gaps, through a c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-future-primates - 2025-10-25

Why do coalition parties settle some policy issues in great detail, whereas other issues are hardly mentioned in coalition agreements? Hanna Bäck has, together with Heike Klüver, studied this question in an analysis of over 200 agreements in 24 West and East European countries. The results in their analysis show that parties are clearly more likely to spend a lot of effort on negotiating and agree

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-agreements - 2025-10-25

Jens Bartelson has received two awards by the International Studies Association. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award and the ISA Theory Section Best Monograph Award. The last mentioned award has been given to Bartelson for his book ”War in International Thought”. Motivation for the Distinguished scholar awardJens Bartelson’s pioneering contribution to the field of Historical Int

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bartelson-has-received-two-awards - 2025-10-25

Ketevan Bolkvadze has, together with Marina Povitkina from University of Gothenburg, published the article "Fresh Pipes with Dirty Water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies" in the “European Journal of Political Research”. Using mixed methods design the authors investigate why democracy is not enough for the provision of basic public goods, such as access

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-quality-government-shapes-provision-public-goods-democracies - 2025-10-25

A study of the Swedish government formation process 2018-2019 aims to map the sequence of events and summarize what can be learnt from the process and the formal rules governing it. The study aims to answer three research questions: Why did the current government form? Why did it take so long? How did the formal rules work in practice? At the close of the government formation process in January, t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-government-formation-process - 2025-10-25

Jan Teorell has, together with Staffan Lindberg, co-authored the chapter ”Demokratins utveckling i världen: Tendenser under och efter rösträttens århundrade” in the book ”Rösträttens århundrade: Kampen, utvecklingen och framtiden för demokratin i Sverige”. This is a chapter in an edited volume that was issued to celebrate 100 years of Swedish democracy. Together with Staffan Lindberg, the chapter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/was-swedish-extension-suffrage-early-or-late - 2025-10-25

Sara Kalm has written the article ”On academic housekeeping and its allocation” (in Swedish), which was recently published in the journal ”Sociologisk Forskning”. Academic housekeeping denotes the type of work tasks within university departments that are low-status, time-consuming, largely invisible, and that nevertheless need to be done. This article discusses academic housekeeping in a Swedish c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/academic-housekeeping - 2025-10-25