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Hyeyoon Park explores China's norm-making role in global extractives governance

In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green transition worldwide. Hyeyoon Park examines China’s role in glo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2025-10-01

Aggestam and True on feminist governance in foreign policy

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the chapter ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” in the ”Handbook of feminist governance”, edited by Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J.     Read more about Handbook of Feminist Governance here on Edward Elgar Publishing's site. To Karin Aggestam's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-feminist-governance-foreign-policy - 2025-10-01

Kinnvall and Kisić-Merino on ‘Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy’

Catarina Kinnvall and co-author Pasko Kisić-Merino have recently published their article ‘Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy’ in Theory & Psychology, vol. 33, issue 2. Abstract This article is concerned with the psychological dimensions of deglobalization and white supremacy as related to fantasies of “whiteness.” The (re)construction of narratives and myths are contes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-kisic-merino-deglobalization-and-political-psychology-white-supremacy - 2025-10-01

Uhlin on elites’ legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations

Anders Uhlin has together with Soetkin Verhaegen written the article “Elites’ (De)legitimation Practices toward International Organizations” published in Global Studies Quarterly. Using unique survey data, the authors analyze how political and societal elites contribute to the legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. Link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad02

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-elites-legitimation-and-delegitimation-international-organizations - 2025-10-01

Uhlin and colleagues on civil society elites in Cambodia and Indonesia

Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society and elites – this book sheds new light on how certain individuals emerge as members of a civil society elite and traces interactions with elite groups from party politics, the state, and the business sector. This edited volume analyses how such processes are influenced by reliance on foreign funding and explores how they play out i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-and-colleagues-civil-society-elites-cambodia-and-indonesia - 2025-10-01

Hi there... Joel W. Abdelmoez, just back from fieldwork in Tunisia!

Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely that feminism is usually seen as a European or Western "product" that is exported to the rest of the worl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2025-10-01

Daniel Gustafsson has successfully defended his thesis!

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 - 2025-10-01

Manners on how best to respond to the Sweden Democrats' Swexit gamble

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 - 2025-10-01

Sindre Gade Viksand has successfully defended his thesis!

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 - 2025-10-01

Simon Davidsson has been awarded the Swedish Political Science Association's prize !

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 - 2025-10-01

Bramsen on the web of relations shaping the Philippine peace talks

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 - 2025-10-01

Lisa Strömbom on ‘The Abraham Accords’ implications for peace in the Middle East”

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 - 2025-10-01

Stina Melander & co-authors on Ideology, Representation, and Legitimacy in a Swedish Disability Organisation

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 - 2025-10-01

Strömbom on EU between democratic principles and expansionist Israeli ideals

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 - 2025-10-01

Aggestam and Eitrem Holmgren on Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East

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 - 2025-10-01

New article by Ann-Kristin Kölln and Jonathan Polk on intra-party politics in Comparative Political Studies

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 - 2025-10-01

Elias Isaksson has successfully defended his thesis!

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 - 2025-10-01

New ISQ-article on state responses to COVID-19 by Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson

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 - 2025-10-01

Polk and Rosén on the transnational cleavage and party positioning on trade

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 - 2025-10-01

Agnese Pacciardi on the securitisation of migration and mobility during COVID-19

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 - 2025-10-01