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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 - 2026-01-17

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 - 2026-01-17

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 - 2026-01-17

Helena Gonzales Lindberg has defended her dissertation "The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic" today at 10:15 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, University of Tromsø. The constitutive power of maps in the ArcticHelena Gonzales Lindberg’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/helena-gonzales-lindberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-01-17

Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017)”, which has been published in the journal “Citizenship Studies”. Nationality determines access to political rights in most contemporary democracies. Yet, over forty countries currently allow non-citizens to vote at various l

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/should-immigrants-vote - 2026-01-17

What are the incentives of politicians to either clean up or maintain corrupt courts in nondemocracies? Ketevan Bolkvadze examines this in a recent article published in the Comparative Political Studies. This article offers a novel take on the problem of judicial independence in nondemocracies. Some scholars hold that political fragmentation leads to more judicial independence; others argue that i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-problem-judicial-independence-nondemocracies - 2026-01-17

Roxanna Sjöstedt has together with Anders Themnér, Uppsala University, co-authored the article ”Buying Them Off or Scaring Them Straight: Explaining Warlord Democrats’ Electoral Rhetoric”, which has been published in the journal Security Studies. AbstractPost–civil war democracies are characterized by intense electoral competition. To ensure continued political relevance, ex-military-turned-politi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-warlord-democrats-electoral-rhetoric - 2026-01-17

Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social investment as a tool for municipal governance and organization?" The project anal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2026-01-17

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds personal web pageAnnika Kronsells personal web page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2026-01-17

Ted Svensson has co-authored an article that was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. It is entitled 'Lessons from the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India'. The article, which is informed by a self-categorisation and social-identity framework of identity entrepreneurship as well as social r

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-new-article-explores-selective-account-past-events-nationalist-movements - 2026-01-17

Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted at the Department of Political Science?In light of the information about the Depa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2026-01-17

The teacher representatives on the board of the Department of Political Science in response to Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein's guest editorial in SvD concerning gender distribution among authors on course reading lists. In a guest editorial in the daily SvD on 7 November, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein expresses indignation about the Department of Political Science’s alleged lack of respect and confi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/guideline-gender-distribution-does-not-influence-course-content - 2026-01-17

Karin Aggestam och Ann Towns have edited a new book on Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation (Palgrave). About the book:This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research agenda, including new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on gender, p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-aggestam-towns-gendering-diplomacy-and-international-negotiations - 2026-01-17

Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson inquires into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our understanding of the modern political world and the role of war within it. As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoun

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-war-international-thought - 2026-01-17

Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter 'Säkerhet’ (Security) in the book Politik och Kön: Feministiska Perspektiv på Statsvetenskap, (translation: Gender and Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Science) edited by Lenita Freidenvall & Maria Jansson (Studentlitteratur). Link to book at Studentitteratur.seLink to Annika Bergman Rosamond's personal web page  

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-security-book-about-feminist-research - 2026-01-17

Catarina Kinnvall has together with John Cash edited a Special Issue in Postcolonial Studies (vol. 20, issue 3, 2017), entitled: ’Postcolonial Bordering and Ontological Insecurities’. Current and former colleagues at the Department, Ted Svensson and Emil Edenborg, also contribute articles to the Special Issue For more information, see: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpcs20/current?nav=tocList

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-postcolonial-studies-edited-catarina-kinnvall - 2026-01-17

Karin Aggestam, professor at the Department of Political Science and Ann Towns, associate professor at Gothenburg University have co-authored "Diplomacy: A Gendered Institution” i boken Diplomacy in a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press). About the book: In Diplomacy in a Globalizing World twenty-three respected scholars contribute to the debate about the changing nature of contemporary dip

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-ann-towns-women-and-global-diplomacy - 2026-01-17

At the turn of the year, Björn Badersten and Lisa Strömbom will take up their respective posts as head and assistant head of the Department of Political Science, respectively. They were both unanimously elected by the staff in mid-October, in an election held once every three years. Björn Badersten was previously assistant head of department, while Lisa Strömbom was the director of Peace and Confl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/continued-academic-freedom-guiding-light-new-leadership - 2026-01-17

"Woodworlds: Stories of desire and grief in the Swedish forest" is a new research project led by Johannes Stripple and funded by BECC - The Swedish government’s strategic research area on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate. About the project from the Decision about research funding in BECC for 2018-20:J. Stripple (Political Science, LU); Woodworlds – Stories of desire and gr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-swedish-forest - 2026-01-17

Niklas Altermark has recently published his book Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation with Routledge. The book advances and builds on his dissertation and deals with how people with intellectual disabilities are being governed. In addition, Altermark has also published an article, entitled 'Legitimising Austerity: The construction of Personal Ass

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-niklas-altermark-how-people-intellectual-disabilities-are-governed - 2026-01-17