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Jana Wrange and Rikard Bengtsson have together with Douglas Brommesson (Linneaus University) published the article "Resilience through total defence: Towards a shared security culture in the Nordic–Baltic region?" in European Journal of International Security. The article departs from an analysis of conceptualizations of total defence and resilience among the Nordic and Baltic countries in combina

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-and-bengtsson-security-culture-nordic-baltic-region - 2026-10-21

Ian Manners’s lead intervention article in the forthcoming special issue of Cooperation and Conflict is online first open access on 'Normative power in the planetary organic crisis'. The lead intervention article argues that the new reality of the planetary organic crisis awaits a normative critical social theory of planetary politics, a means of understanding the sharing of relationships within I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-mannerss-research-normative-power-planetary-organic-crisis - 2026-10-21

Christie Nicoson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Peace in a Changing Climate: Caring and Knowing the Climate-Gender-Peace Nexus'. Congratulations! AbstractScholars and practitioners argue that climate change poses particular challenges for peace. In order to understand what these challenges are and how to tackle them necessitates attention to gender, since experiences and processes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/christie-nicoson-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-10-21

Subsidies to fossil fuels – oil, coal and gas – are notoriously difficult to reform with global subsidy levels reaching a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a new article, Evan Drake and Jakob Skovgaard study how two political institutions, corporatism and electoral systems with proportional representation, impact the levels of fossil fuel subsidies. Comparing fossil fuel production subsidies in Can

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/can-political-institutions-insulate-against-political-backlash-when-dismantling-fossil-fuel - 2026-10-21

Caroline Karlsson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Prohibitive Condition: The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders'. Congratulations! AbstractThis dissertation explores the political nature of the incest taboo, with an analytical focus on its object of prohibition: incest. From the perspective of political philosophy, the incest taboo appears as proble

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/caroline-karlsson-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-10-21

The Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the premier EU-studies journal, has just published a 20th Anniversary Symposium on Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The symposium develops the ideas of the original 2002 JCMS article by introducing the arrival of normative power in planetary politics. ‘Planetary politics’ are characterised by truly planetary relations of causality that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-contributes-20th-anniversary-symposium-arrival-normative-power-planetary-politics - 2026-10-21

Radical right populist parties have often been treated as “pariahs,” being excluded from coalition politics in parliamentary democracies. How can we study this type of distancing behavior? We argue that negative rhetoric targeted at radical right populist parties in legislative debates is used by the established parties to distance themselves from such parties. Using sentiment analysis of speeches

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/calvo-back-carroll-pariah-parties-and-changing-elite-rhetoric-swedish-riksdag - 2026-10-21

Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström has published the article “A European Feminist Foreign and Security Policy? Norm Contestation and Norm Negotiations in the European Parliament” in International Negotiation. The article investigates the negotiation process which led to the resolution on Gender equality in EU’s foreign and security policy in the European Parliament in 2020. The authors analys

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-rosen-sundstrom-negotiation-process-which-led-resolution-gender-equality-eus-foreign - 2026-10-21

Mats Fred and Alexander Paulsson write about two public transport authorities (PTA) who went from procuring IT and digital services to build in-house IT-capacity to gain power and control over “the digital”. Through a study of app making, this study shows that digital sovereignty is not only about controlling software development or data ownership, but also about re-configuring the organization in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digital-sovereignty-and-public-authorities-efforts-byte-back - 2026-10-21

AbstractThis article takes as its point of departure the postcolonial understanding of the nation as a subject constructed through the colonial encounter. It argues that at the core of both colonial and postcolonial subject formations lies a desire for reconstructing a homogeneous nation that fulfils a ‘hunger for certainty’. The use of the term ‘hunger for certainty’ testifies to the emotional as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-hunger-certainty-misrecognition-masculinity-and-agentic-action - 2026-10-21

Subsidies to fossil fuels – oil, coal and gas – are notoriously difficult to reform with global subsidy levels reaching a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a new article, Nils Droste, Benjamin Chatterton and Jakob Skovgaard study the political economy of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Studying industrialised countries they find that renewable energy and well-functioning political instituti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-economy-theory-fossil-fuel-subsidy-reforms-oecd-countries - 2026-10-21

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have co-authored the book The Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy. About the book: The overarching aim of the book is to provide the first comprehensive account of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy and its dissemination through digital diplomacy. In contrast to other scholarly studies of digital diplomacy that tend to vi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-feminist-foreign-policy-and-digital-diplomacy - 2026-10-21

Before and during COP26, young people have called for urgent climate action. The European Commission argues that climate action is the top priority for the EU. But is the speed fast enough? And what changes are to be expected by the EU Green Deal? These issues, among others, will be discussed in a breakfast seminar on 2 December. After two weeks of intense negotiations, the world's top leaders hav

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/eu-after-cop26-what-expect - 2026-10-21

Prof. Hervé Corvellec argues, that the Anthropocene is the age of waste because converging forces have made possible normalization of waste and habituation of wasting. In a keynote speech at the Waste Society web conference he gave an inspiring lecture. Prof. Hervé Corvellec proposes a perspective on the much discussed question of the Anthropocene, the age of the human. He argues that the Anthropo

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/anthropocene-age-waste - 2026-10-21

This question among many others was discussed during a breakfast seminar about EU after COP26. Christian Danielsson, Head of European Commission Representation in Sweden, visited Campus Helsingborg on Thursday morning to talk about Europes climat ambitions with students  Jean Rochat (from Master's programme in service management - Sustainable Service management) and Alva Nyblom (from Bachelors pro

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/can-we-actually-fix-climate - 2026-10-21

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, some shopping geographies had difficulties while others proved to be more resilient. Devrim Umut Aslan discusses what we can learn from these resilient places. A global pandemic hit the world, radically changing how shoppers shop and how they move around in cities. Sweden’s handling of the pandemic had been rather ‘relaxed’; it had not enforced any strict lock-downs

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-maintain-town-centre-retail-times-crisis - 2026-10-21

Who is Professor Hervé Corvellec? What does he say about the masters's programme in Service managment, specialisation Sustainable Service Management? What is he currently working on in terms of research projects? And what will students be surprised to find out about him? What is your academic background and what did you do before you started teaching at Lund University? "I have a business administ

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-teachers-herve-corvellec - 2026-10-21

The new book, written by Johan Alvehus at the Department of Service Managment and Service Studies, discusses common management and work practices in professional service organizations. Johan Alvehus opens important discussions on what it means to work, manage, and be managed in such professional organizations, casting light on classic conflicts. He takes everyday work as a starting point and adopt

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/book-release-logic-professionalism-work-and-management-professional-service-organizations - 2026-10-21

Who is the lecturer, Yulia Vakulenko? What does she have to say about the Master’s programme in Service Management, specialising in Supply Chain Management? What is she currently working on in terms of research projects? And what will students be surprised to find out about her? What is your academic background and what did you do before you started teaching at Lund University? I have a Master’s i

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-teachers-yulia-vakulenko - 2026-10-21

New episode of Culture and Creativity Management Podcast. In the third episode of the Culture and Creativity Management podcast Rebecca Mattsoff describes innovations at two open-air attractions in Helsingborg as a result of altered visitor profiles and behaviour due to the Covid pandemic in 2020. Rebecca talks about how the tourism destination work of the City of Helsingborg generated an opportun

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/service-innovation-cultural-heritage-sites-times-covid - 2026-10-21