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For one day, the third floor of the Eden building was transformed into the heart of European Union decision-making. In a large-scale negotiation role-play, 45 master's students from Lund University stepped into the roles of heads of government, ministers, European Commissioners, and senior officials, gaining first-hand experience of how EU politics works from the inside. Learning about the EU by e

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/day-heart-eu-decision-making-students-took-their-seats-negotiating-table - 2026-10-13

When is it democratically justifiable to disrupt the status quo, and might protest even be necessary for democracy to survive? These are some of the questions explored by Markus Holdo in his new book, The Responsibility to Disrupt. Drawing on both classical and contemporary political theory, Markus Holdo examines citizens’ right and responsibility to challenge established structures in order to mo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/does-democracy-need-disruption-survive-new-book-connects-protest-ai-debate - 2026-10-13

On 9 October, Katja Garson successfully defended her doctoral thesis in Political Science at Lund University. Congratulations to our newest Doctor! Her dissertation, "Boreal Forest Temporalities: Temporal Politics in Finland and Sweden", highlights voices, relationships and narratives that are often overlooked or excluded from political and public discussions about forests. Summary of Boreal fores

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/katja-garson-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Karin Aggestam has penned a chapter entitled Conflict Analysis and International Relations in the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/conflict-analysis-and-international-relations - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SYMPOSIUM. Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies invites the public to the symposium Social Resistance in Non-Democracies 25-26 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-resistance-non-democracies - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Christian Göbel speaks about Digitalisation instead of Democracy: Online Complaints as Drivers of Regime Institutionalization in China at the Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies conference.  Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digitalisation-instead-democracy - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The milestone 2000 likes on the department's Facebook has just been reached. Thanks all Fb-friends! Learn more, go to our facebook.

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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall has co-edited the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/palgrave-handbook-global-political-psychology - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European University Institute is offering 160 grants for a fully funded PhD programme (including political science). Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-grants - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Emil Persson has penned the article Banning “Homosexual Propaganda”: Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary Russian Media, which has recently been published in Sexuality & Culture Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/banning-homosexual-propaganda - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CONFERENCE. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies present: Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies event takes place on 13 November 2014. At this one day conference they have invited speakers from different disciplines, including political science, anthropology, and medi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/researching-chinese-internet - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Maysam Behravesh has penned the article Iran's Reform Movement: The Enduring Relevance of an Alternative Discourse, which has recently been published in Digest of Middle East Studies. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/irans-reform-movement - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Ole Elgström was part of an international panel charged with evaluating research at the School of Management, Tampere University. Learn more. The University of Tampere.     

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ole-elgstrom-evaluates-research-school-management - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Tobias Dan Nielsen has co-authored the article Mapping the narrative positions of new political groups under the UNFCCC, which has recently been published in Climate Policy.  Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-political-groups-under-unfccc - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Erik Ringmar visits Comenius University in Bratislava to talk about Political theory for nomads, and Political performances: A critique of constructivist IR theory (28 & 29 October). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-visits-comenius-university-bratislava - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Erik Ringmar is working on History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective – an interactive textbook for undergrads. Please contribute comments and suggestions or download the book for free. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-interactive-textbook-undergrads - 2026-10-13