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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Green economy depends on high national ambitionsSustainable growth, supporting a resource efficient and low-carbon economy, is a high priority for most governments today. But which way is the most effective for the transition towards a green economy? IIIEE researchers Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij are soon wrapping up a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-researcher-luis-mundaca - 2026-06-21

At a seminar held on 5 March 2026, Anders Ahnlid, Director-General of the National Board of Trade (Kommerskollegium), offered his analysis of the European Union’s role in an unstable global trade environment. Against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical dynamics and the return of protectionist policies, Ahnlid’s central message was that the global trading system is undergoing profound change, and

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/ahnlid-we-need-strong-and-proactive-eu-leadership - 2026-06-21

Heart attack and stroke are common complications of diabetes, as the body's ability to repair and form vessels is impaired. Researchers at Lund University have developed a new substance with the capacity to stimulate vascular repair response and the formation of vessels. In diabetes, the body's ability to repair vascular damage caused by the disease is impaired, which can lead to complications suc

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-peptide-may-reduce-risk-diabetes-complications - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the brief, UI's Emil Lidén examines the potential for deeper security cooperation in Africa. The brief "Securing a Shared Neighbourhood: The European Union and India as Partners for Security in Africa" was recently published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), which co-hosts the South Asia Initi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-report-south-asia-initiative-eu-india-relations-africa - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard and Åsa Knaggård have co-authored the article “Mapping and clustering the adoption of carbon pricing policies: what polities price carbon and why?” together with Sofía Sacks Ferrari (SIPRI, formerly the Department of Political Science, LU). The article is published in the journal Climate Policy. It con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-knaggard-adoption-carbon-pricing - 2026-06-21

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was President of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024, utilized Buddhist diplomacy to ensure his political legitimacy and longevity - similarly to other Sri Lankan leaders of state Tabita Rosendal has published a new open‑access book chapter in Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia, edited by Jack Meng‑Tat Chia, examining Ranil Wickremesinghe’s use of Buddhist diplomacy. Th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-open-access-book-chapter-buddhist-diplomacy-former-sri-lankan - 2026-06-21

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tenure-track-positions - 2026-06-21

A new anthology explores how waste – in all its forms – can be an unexpected but powerful starting point for understanding and questioning contemporary society. Professor Hervé Corvellec is the editor and has also contributed with chapters in the book. The anthology, Waste as a Critique, uses waste to understand and question society. By looking at waste from the perspectives of materiality, societ

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/waste-critique-new-anthology-herve-corvellec - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the la

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. University of Hong Kong invites applications for appointment as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road in the Faculty of Social Sciences (as tenure home) and the Faculty of Arts, to commence from July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tenure-track-assistant-professor-asian-urban-silk-road - 2026-06-21

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies.  The graduate school is a collaboration with the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, and the Center for Asian Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Additional partners are the Department of Languages an

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/graduate-school-asian-studies - 2026-06-21

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-digitalizing-xianchang-documentary-experiments-shanghai-covid-lockdown - 2026-06-21

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sylvia-schwaag-serger-appointed-new-deputy-vice-chancellor - 2026-06-21

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2026-06-21

Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places. Until now, it has been unclear how far back in time the climate phenomenon extends. But in a new study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), an international team of scientists has established that El Niño and the Southern Oscillatio

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-changing-el-nino-oscillation-least-250-million-years-old - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Prof. Oksana Mont at the IIIEE is co-editor of a new edited book on welfare and its relationship to sustainability. Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are norma

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-book-sustainability-and-political-economy-welfare - 2026-06-21

A research team has created a picture of historical temperatures in the Arctic, spanning over a thousand years. A new technique and a recently published database of proxy data have been used in the research, and the results are an important contribution to understanding temperature changes now and in the future. The Arctic is the area in the world that is heating up the fastest, through so-called

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-temperature-analysis-over-thousand-years - 2026-06-21

Sofia graduated from Lund University’s master’s program in Economic Growth, Population and Development in 2022 and has since built a career in international relations, currently working as an Adviser at the UN Headquarters in New York. In our interview, Sofia shares her journey from studies to the UN, reflecting on what inspired her to choose this path and the experiences that prepared her for it.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/sofia-brannstrom-alumna-msc-economic-growth-population-and-development-2022 - 2026-06-21

Professor Deliang Chen has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Professor Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and PI in BECC, has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. He was one of 44 new Fellows elected on the Academy's 26th General Meeting

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-elected-fellow-world-academy-sciences-twas - 2026-06-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Tuesday October 9 at 11-13 Professor Ashok Swain i will give a talk on climate change and river disputes in South Asia at : LUMES Josephson - Room Maathai (3rd floor). Ashok Swain is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation, and the Director of Research School of I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-climate-change-and-river-disputes-south-asia - 2026-06-21