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NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam has written the article "Desecuritisation of water and the technocratic turn in peacebuilding", published in International Environmental Agreement: Politics, Law and Economics (2015). Abstract:This article addresses the research gap of water desecuritisation and advances an interdisciplinary approach within the issue area of peacebuilding. It draws upon thr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-security-water-and-technocratic-peacebuilding - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Moira Nelson has written a post titled "Breaking down barriers" on the research blog Policy Network. Links:Breaking down barriersMoira Nelson

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/moria-nelson-women-and-labour-market - 2026-01-02

The Spanish journal Revista Down (a journal devoted to the topic of Down's syndrome) has in their latest issue Niklas Altermark's article "The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability" as main theme, and has invited a number of researchers to discuss the article. One of the commenters is Mara Dierssen, one of the world’s foremost scholars on intellectual disability and biology.Links:Al

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/niklas-altermarks-article-main-theme-journal-issue - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Åsa Knaggård’s article ”The Multiple Streams Framework and the problem broker” has been published by the European Journal of Political Research. In the article she discusses John Kingdon’s framework and introduces the concept of ‘problem broker’. Links:The Multiple Streams Framework and the problem brokerÅsa Knaggård

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knaggard-policy-process - 2026-01-02

Karin Aggestam has been assigned lead author in the International Panel on Social Progress. The panel is chaired by Amartya Sen and an international scientific council co-chaired by Nancy Fraser, Ravi Kanbur and Helga Nowotny. The report will be finalised in 2017 and is expected to have major international impact.Links:ISPSKarin Aggestam

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-assigned-lead-author-international-panel-social-progress - 2026-01-02

Ringmar's book is descibed by Björn Jerdén in the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific as: "gripping," "theoretically innovative" and "state-of-the-art". Links:International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 15 (2015)Full review 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmars-liberal-barbarism-reviewed - 2026-01-02

Magdalena Bexell was promoted to associate professor at the board meeting of the Faculty of Social Sciences on May 6. Link:Magdalena Bexell

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-promoted-associate-professor - 2026-01-02

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Roxanna Sjöstedt has authored the article "Assessing a Broad Teaching Approach: The Impact of Combining Active Learning Methods on Student Performance in Undergraduate Peace and Conflict Studies," published in the Journal of Political Science Education, 11 (2): 204- 220. AbstractTeaching introductory International Relations (IR) and peace and conflict studies can be chall

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roxanna-sjostedt-education-peace-and-conflict-studies - 2026-01-02

- The idea is to use the great public interest that the Climate Summit in Paris in December 2015 will stir up to educate the masses on climate change, says Angela Oels to Riksbankens website rj.se and continues:- A MOOC (massive open online course) is basically a lecture series of different speakers that is broadcasted via the internet in weekly sessions that can be watched any time. There are onl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/angela-oels-visiting-researcher-starts-mooc-climate-justice - 2026-01-02

In a new open-access article published in Review of International Studies, Jakob Skovgaard explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has integrated climate risks into its surveillance of countries’ economies and policies. This integration involves reframing climate as an economic issue and assessing countries' actions to address: Physical risks of climate change, Transition risks from pha

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-how-imf-addresses-climate-change - 2026-01-02

Associate Professor Julie Hassing Nielsen's and Associate Professor Agustin Goenaga's findings indicate that exposure to the economic costs of pandemic strategies was not only associated with more critical views towards public health measures, but that it also made citizens more likely to see them as violations to democratic rights. Popular science summary: Business owners in Denmark, experiencing

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/danish-business-owners-more-critical-democratic-institutions-their-swedish-counterparts-during-covid - 2026-01-02

Political parties in Western Europe are more responsive to voters than you might think. Across seven key political issues, Ibenskas and Polk found that parties adjust their positions to better match public opinion. Using data from the Chapel Hill Expert Surveys, European Social Survey, and the European Election Study, the study reveals that parties listen to both their core supporters and the broa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/do-political-parties-western-europe-listen-their-voters - 2026-01-02

Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-suggestion-of-clearing-out-gaza-adds-another-risk-to-an-already-fragile-ceasefire-248334Karin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-conversation-karin-aggestam-about-fragile-ceasefire-gaza-and-future-diplomatic - 2026-01-02

How should the Russian war against Ukraine reshape the way we teach International Relations (IR) and European Union (EU) studies? In a groundbreaking new article, Professor Ian Manners argues that Ukraine serves as a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift—one that moves beyond traditional IR frameworks to embrace planetary politics. Published as the lead article in a special issue of the Journal of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rethinking-international-relations-russian-war-against-ukraine-and-shift-planetary-politics - 2026-01-02

The article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors that are organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry. This industry links states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Employing concepts from organizational theory and the study of legitimation in global governance, the article identifies discursive, institutional, and behavioral self-legiti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2026-01-02

Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Political Psychology of Revisionist Behavior in World Politics: State Subjectivity, Ontological (In)Security, and Iranian Foreign Policy'. Congratulations Doctor Maysam! AbstractDriven by a core curiosity about the political psychology of change and change-seeking as opposed to continuity and status quo-keeping in world politics, this

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2026-01-02

Professor Ian Manners has received a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant to spend 2025 working at the University of Bristol to complete a book on The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The research book analyses the EU relations with the rest of the planet through from the end of the Cold War in 1990 until the end of the sabbatical in 2025.The focus is on five areas of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-manners-receives-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatical-grant-writing-book-european-unions - 2026-01-02

The journal Global Intellectual History has just published a forum on Jens Bartelson’s latest book Becoming International (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The forum has been edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen and features contributions by Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, Or Rosenboim, and Ayşe Zarakol. Here is the introduction:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forum-jens-bartelsons-becoming-international-global-intellectual-history - 2026-01-02

This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war.  From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, North America, Northe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-production-gendered-knowledge-war-women-and - 2026-01-02

This book explores how women in societies plagued by ethno-national conflict can help build peace and gender equality, even in places where deep divisions have existed for generations. It uses an approach called transversal politics to analyse how women from different communities in Northern Ireland work together across an ethno-national divide to build coalitions on shared values and common goals

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-linda-eitrem-holmgren-gender-just-political-citizenship-and-peacebuilding-northern-ireland - 2026-01-02