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Kurtis Boyer defended his dissertation "An Autocracy of Empathy: Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism" on October 26 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund. Discussant was Professor Erika Cudworth, University of East London.An Autocracy of Empathy: Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism Kurtis Boyer’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kurtis-boyer-has-defended-his-thesis - 2026-01-09

After four years of drafting, debating, rethinking, and revising, the IPSP report is finally published with Cambridge University Press. Karin Aggestam is one of many contributing lead authors. Read more on ipsp.orgKarin Aggestams personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-international-report-rethinking-society-21st-century - 2026-01-09

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Policy coherence and organizational cultures: Energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction targets” in the journal Environmental Policy and Governance. The article concerns the role of the organizational cultures of two of the European Commission’s Directorate-Generals, respectively Energy and Climate Action, for the policy coherence within EU energy an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-policy-coherence-and-eu-climate-and-energy-policies - 2026-01-09

Is there a return of the “north” in Nordic foreign policy? Douglas Brommesson is the editor of new special section in Global Affairs where he together with a group of Nordic scholars seeks to identify, analyse and explain developments of and variations in what we call "Nordicness" in the foreign and security policies of Nordic states.  In this special section in Global Affairs Douglas Brommesson h

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-nordicness-foreign-and-security-policy - 2026-01-09

What are the sources and processes of legitimacy in global governance? The research program LegGov has published the volume ”Legitimacy in Global Governance” (Oxford University Press). The volume includes chapters written by LegGov researchers Anders Uhlin, Catia Gregoratti, Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson and Fariborz Zelli at the Department of Political Science.Learn more about the book on gl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-legitimacy-global-governance - 2026-01-09

Simon Davidsson has authored the article ”Left-Right Orientation, Homeownership, and Class Position in Sweden” in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. Sweden is a country where left‐right orientation structures the political landscape, homeownership is increasingly important, and the importance of class for political preferences and behavior is changing or even weakening.This article explor

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/davidsson-significance-homeownership-sweden - 2026-01-09

Niklas Altermark and Emil Edeborg have published their article “Visualizing the Included Subject: Photography, Progress Narratives, and Intellectual Disability” in the journal ”Subjectivity”. In the article, Altermark and Edenborg examine how photographs are used to create a progress narrative of disability politics that hamper our understanding of how this group is being oppressed today.  Learn m

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/photographs-disability-politics - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: In the recently released Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, Christer Jönsson contributes with the chapter "IR Paradigms and Inter-Organizational Theory: Situating the Research Program Within the Discipline". The editors' comment on Jönsson's contribution: "By inviting Christer Jönsson, who had presented remarkable research on IOR [inter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-palgrave-handbook-inter-organizational-relations-world-politics - 2026-01-09

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Linda Nybergs thesis "Market Bureaucracy" was held on Tuesday, April 4, at. 15:15 in Edens lobby.  The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should be given the chance to read it in advance and then ask questions at the defence.Linda Nyberg

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/linda-nybergs-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic contributed with a chapter on Gender and Transitional Justice, and one chapter with Susanne Buckley-Zistel on Memorials and Transitional Justice in the book An Introduction to Transitional Justice edited by Olivera Simic. Learn more about the book on routledge.comAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gender-and-transitional-justice - 2026-01-09

Linda Nyberg defended her dissertation "Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid Policy" today, 21st April at 10:15 am in the Eden auditorium, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Discussant was Ben Rosamond from Copenhagen University.Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid PolicyLinda Nyberg's personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/linda-nyberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article "Peacekeeping deployment abroad and the self-perceptions of the effect on career advancement, status and reintegration” published in print a few weeks ago (published online in August). Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-happens-military-careers-un-soldiers-after-their-un-service - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article ”The civilised Self and the barbaric Other: ex-rebels making sense of sexual violence in the DR Congo” which was recently published online. Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-ex-rebels-make-sense-sexual-violence - 2026-01-09

OUTREACH: Today, 26th April, Niklas Altermark will participate in the parliamentary hearing on personal assistance. Also participating are representatives of the disability movement, other researchers from a variety of disciplines and a number of people heavily involved when personal assistance was introduced. The purpose of the event is to highlight personal assistance and allow assistance users,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-parliamentary-seminar-personal-assistance - 2026-01-09

Annika Björkdahl was invited to give a talk entitled ”Peace and the Politics of Memory” at St. Andrews University in Scotland on Monday the 17th April at the Arts Lecture Theatre. The talk was part of the School of International Relations, IR Monday Seminar Series.St. Andrews University's websiteAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the department's website.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gave-talk-scotland-peace-and-politics-memory - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published a paper explaining election fraud historically in the case of Sweden, drawing on original data from second-instance election petitions filed in 1719–1908, "Partisanship and Unreformed Bureaucracy: The Drivers of Election Fraud in Sweden, 1719-1908". These petitions reveal systematic procedural violations committed by local election officials towa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-eighteenth-century-election-fraud-sweden - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Roxanna Sjöstedt has published the article "Securitization and Foreign Policy Analysis", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Sjöstedt describes and reviews in this article the central assumptions of securitization theory in order to capture its applicability to the study of foreign policy. AbstractSince it was launched in the mid-1990s, the concept of securitizat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2026-01-09

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Per Andersson's thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" was held today, Friday 5th May, at 3:15 pm in Eden's lobby.  The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should be given the chance to read it in advance and then ask questions at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anderssons-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén has written the article "The World Turned Away From Burundi, but Its Crisis Is Getting Worse” in World Politics Review. Learn more on worldpoliticsreview.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture and military intervention in Africa. Nina Wilén is currently a guest researcher at the department, and is usually e

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/world-turns-away-burundi-crisis-worsens - 2026-01-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Government investigations rely on unsubstantiated evidence in reports on extensive cheating in welfare systems for people with disabilities. Both current and former governments have based their assistance policies on public commissions that lack scientific basis. This is shown in a new report by political scientists Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsson.Niklas Altermark's p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-report-unreliable-evidence-behind-accusations-cheating-personal-assistance - 2026-01-09