Tobias D. Nielsen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg and Johannes Stripple have authored the article ”Politics and the plastic crisis: A review throughout the plastic life cycle”, which has been published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment”. This article surveys the politics of plastics by considering how plastic flows (production, consumption, waste and polluti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/politics-and-plastic-crisis - 2025-08-25

Lisa Strömbom has recently published the article "Exploring Prospects for Agonistic Encounters in Conflict Zones: Investigating Dual Narrative Tourism in Israel/Palestine" in “Alternatives”. The study introduces an analytical framework designed to investigate facilitating and hindering circumstances when introducing and disseminating alternative views of history in communities torn by protracted c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-alternative-views-history-protracted-conflicts - 2025-08-25

Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Storytelling in EU public diplomacy: reputation management and recognition of success” in the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. The study conceptualizes storytelling in public diplomacy and explores how storytelling is used in the communication of EU foreign policy. The article treats storytelling as narrative strategies that tap into the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-storytelling-communication-eu-foreign-policy - 2025-08-25

How did brain drain emerge as a policy issue at the level of the European Union? And how has the intra-European debate on brain drain evolved over the last two decades? Jacob Hasselbalch answer these questions in the article “Framing brain drain: between solidarity and skills in European labor mobility”. In the article the author argues that the debate is defined by the interaction of a skills sto

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hasselbalch-brain-drain - 2025-08-25

Anders Uhlin has recently published the article “Legitimacy Struggles in Global Governance: Legitimation and Delegitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank” in SAGE Open. Contributing to research on processes of (de)legitimation in global governance, the article develops a framework for analyzing legitimacy struggles paying equal attention to legitimation and delegitimation, and distin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-aiib-legitimacy - 2025-08-25

Jan Teorell has together with Kelly McMann, Brigitte Seim and Staffan Lindberg co-authored the article "Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish It", which has been published in the journal “Political Research Quarterly”. Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, scholars have found that while corruption is low at high levels of democracy, it is high a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-and-corruption - 2025-08-25

Sara Kalm, Lisa Strömbom and Anders Uhlin have co-authored the article ”Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of ’Counter-Democracy’”, which has been published in the journal “Global Society”. The article proposes a new way of analysing the potential of civil society organisations (CSOs) to democratise global governance. The aim is to explore the possibility for

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/civil-society-democratising-global-governance - 2025-08-25

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catia Gregoratti have authored the book chapter ”All Under the Same Sky? Celebrity Philanthropy and the Transnational Market for Women’s Empowerment” in the edited collection ”The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism” (edited by N. Farrell). This chapter is an attempt to enable a productive conversation between celebrity studies, humanitarianism, and activism and fem

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrities-and-feminism - 2025-08-25

Maiken Røed has co-authored the article “All about the money? A cross-national study of parties’ relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies”, published in Party Politics.  The article examines political parties’ relations with trade unions and shows that there is a positive correlation between financial contributions and close relations, but that this relationship is also constrained by

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-political-parties-relations-trade-unions - 2025-08-25

Roxanna Sjöstedt has authored the book chapter “Assessing Securitization Theory: Theoretical Discussions and Empirical Developments” in the book “Securitization Revisited Contemporary Applications and Insights” (edited by Michael Butler). Sjöstedt provides a summary of the theoretical development of the concept of securitization over the past 20 years, and discusses different theoretical insights

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization - 2025-08-25

Annika Björkdahl and Stefanie Kappler have recently published the article “The Creation of Transnational Memory Spaces: Professionalization and Commercialization”, in “International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society” analyzing the memory-making in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa. In the age of globalization, commemorative memory practices increasingly transcend national boundaries and c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-transnational-memory-politics - 2025-08-25

Catarina Kinnvall has, together with Helle Rydström, edited the book “Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gendered Ramifications”. This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where pow

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-living-climate-disasters - 2025-08-25

Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “Populism, ontological insecurity and Hindutva: Modi and the masculinization of Indian politics”, which has been published in the journal “Cambridge Review of International Affairs”. Abstract In an era increasingly defined by insecurity and populist politics, India has emerged as a forceful ontological security provider under the leadership of Marendra M

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-populism-india - 2025-08-25

Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article ”Praise or critique? Sweden’s feminist foreign policy in the eyes of its fellow EU members”, which has been published in the journal ”European Politics and Society”. The article trains focus on how other EU member states perceive the Swedish feminist foreign policy. The study is based on a survey and interviews with representativ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-and-elgstrom-swedish-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-08-25

Jana Wrange and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article ”Internal and external perceptions of small state security: the case of Estonia”, which has been published in the journal ”European Security”. This article concerns small state security from a cognitive perspective and investigates Estonia as a security actor as perceived by all littoral Baltic Sea states. Drawing on unique elite survey

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-and-bengtsson-small-state-security - 2025-08-25

Over the summer, Bart Bes has published two articles dealing with the consequences of contestation in global governance. The articles have been published in the journals ”European Journal for Political Research” and ”Global Policy”. European Journal of Political ResearchTogether with Christian Rauh (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) and Martijn Schoonvelde (University College Dublin), Bes investig

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contested-global-governance - 2025-08-25

Jens Bartelson’s latest book ”War in International Thought” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) has been subject of a book forum in the online latest issue of ”Millennium: Journal of International Studies”. In this forum leading scholars discuss Bartelson’s contribution to the history of the concept of war from a range of different perspectives, assessing its relevance and implications f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/critical-perspectives-bartelsons-latest-book - 2025-08-25

Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the article ”Feminist Foreign Policy 3.0: Advancing Ethics and Gender Equality in Global Politics”. The article is published in a special issue on ethics and foreign Policy in the journal “SAIS Review of International Affairs” (The John Hopkins University Press). The article analyses ethics and gender in foreign policy and the incremental

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-ethics-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-08-25

Catarina Kinnvall has together with Ian Manners and Jennifer Mitzen published an edited volume entitled “Ontological Insecurity in the European Union” (London: Routledge, 2019). The European Union (EU) faces many crises and risks to its security and existence. While few of them threaten the lives of EU citizens, they all create a sense of anxiety and insecurity about the future for many ordinary E

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-book-ontological-insecurity - 2025-08-25

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Annica Kronsell, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan och Timo von Wirth, co-authored an article that analyzes how municipalities govern urban sustainability experiments in Sweden and the Netherlands. Today, public and private actors are increasingly using pilot projects and test beds to identify and test new - more sustainable - solutions for traveling living and worki

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/municipalities-enablers-urban-experimentation - 2025-08-25