Sara Kalm has reviewed Antoine Pécoud’s Depoliticising Migration: Global Governance and International Migration Narratives (Palgrave, 2015). The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of migration governance, by exposing the ways in which international organizations tend to ”depoliticize” and neutralize the issue of migration.The review is published in European Journal of Development Rese

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-review-looks-study-migration-governance - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: The public event “Klimatförvirring” (Climate Confusion) with the aim of explaining the 2015 Paris Climate Conference COP21 was held at Malmö University yesterday (4/11). Ina Möller, Doctoral student at the Department of Political Science, was on the local expert panel in Malmö.Five speakers from three different cities, Stockholm, Umeå and Malmö, were connected in a live-stream

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ina-moller-malmo-panel-about-climate-confusion - 2025-08-27

Kristina Jönsson and Magdalena Bexell have received 2,7 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council for their project Legitimation of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: The Cases of Ghana and Tanzania. Kristina JönssonMagdalena Bexell

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/27-million-sek-project-sustainable-development-goals-ghana-and-tanzania - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam has authored the article ”Peace mediation and the minefield of international recognition games” published in the journal International Negotiation. Abstract:This article analyzes the intricate dynamics between international mediation and the quest for recognition in protracted conflict. The overarching aim is two-fold: to analyze how the struggle for recogn

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-peace-mediation-and-international-recognition-games - 2025-08-27

Kurtis Boyer has established a new Open Access Journal on the Politics of Human-Animal Relations. Politics and Animals is a peer-reviewed, open access journal exploring the human-animal relationship from the vantage point of political science and political theory.Politics and Animals has an international editorial board and hosts international, multidisciplinary research and debate — conceptual an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-journal-politics-human-animal-relations - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Maysam Behravesh and Moira Nelson participated in the event Gender Studies Looking Forwards at the Lund Department of Gender Studies on Wednesday (4/11). The Gender Studies Symposium Gender Studies Looking Forwards – A new light on approaches to gender and feminist research invited over 20 researchers from Lund University and other universities to give short lectures and an in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/behravesh-and-nelson-gender-studies-looking-forwards - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Douglas Brommesson is one of the editors of the recently published anthology “Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges”. Besides Brommesson Martin Hall of the Political Science department also contributes with a chapter. The book explores the range and depth of work currently being done in the humanities and social sciences on the conceptual, normat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-and-hall-new-book-community-global-scale - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Johannes Stripple has published 'Transnational Adaptation Governance: An emerging fourth era of adaptation’ in the journal 'Global Environmental Change’ (Volume 35, November 2015). AbstractClimate change adaptation, which has previously been seen as a national and local matter, is today systematically addressed by international institutions such as the UNFCCC, the FAO and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stripple-fourth-era-environmental-adaptation - 2025-08-27

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have been granted 3 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council Formas for a research project that will study the responsibility for the realization of the UN's new sustainable development goals 2015-2030. The project will compare how responsibilities are allocated when Sweden and Tanzania take on the new goals at a national level. Based on this, the project

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/3-million-sek-project-responsibility-uns-new-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Ina Möller, PhD candidate Political Science, will be speaking after the documentary screening of Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything” at Doc Lounge in Malmö tomorrow evening (17/11). Ina Möllerhttps://www.facebook.com/events/463203910530932http://doclounge.se/calendar/this-changes-everything 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/moller-comments-changes-everything - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Visiting Professor Angela Oels is hosting one of the official side events for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference COP 21 on 1st December ”The importance of social science research for understanding climate change induced migration”. The event is organized by three universities: Lund, Lancaster and Hamburg. Side events and exhibits were established as a platform for admitted obse

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/oels-speaks-paris-climate-conference - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond is the co-organiser of the international conference 'Popular Culture and World Politics - Worlding Popular Culture" that takes place at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and the Department of Politics and International Relation at the University of Westminster, 20–21 November 2015. At the conference she will also present her research on; "Angelina J

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-talks-about-popular-culture-and-world-politics-london - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has contributed to a report commissioned by the Norwegian Church Aid with a short article titled ”Still a progressive vanguard in development policy?”. The report, ”The End of Nordic Exceptionalism?”, includes overviews of trends in the development policies of the Nordic countries. Ole ElgströmRead The End of Nordic Exceptionalism? on kirkensnodhjelp.no 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-trends-development-policies-nordic-countries - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Fariborz Zelli is one of two editors of the newly released book Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics. Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the governance and politics of the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zelli-provides-pluralistic-knowledge-base-global-environmental-governance - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: The Faculty of Law, Jus Humanis and the International Committee are hosting a panel discussion in English about Syria, ISIS and International Law this Thursday at 4.15 pm in the Pufendorf room at the Faculty of Law. Professor Ann Orford, Melbourne University, professor Gregor Noll, Law Faculty, and the human right activist Hanin Shakrah are also on the panel. Learn more on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-participates-panel-discussion-syria-isis-and-international-law - 2025-08-27

150 people attended the side event on climate migration at the UN climate summit in Paris on December 1st, that visiting professor Angela Oels organised. Lund University was hosting the side event in collaboration with Lancaster and Hamburg University. Official side-event on climate migration at COP21. Photo: Dr. Janpeter Schilling. The panel had one clear message: There is no simple link between

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/oelss-panel-cop21-no-simple-link-between-climate-change-and-migration - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Kristina Jönsson has written a chapter on health in Fariborz Zelli’s (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics. The chapter discusses the close relationship between global environment, human wellbeing and health with special focus on global governance issues.The book Global Environmental Governance and Politics contains entries on numerous aspects

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-global-environment-human-wellbeing-and-health-focus-global-governance - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Annika Björkdahl will speak at the conference "Bosnia-Herzegovina: Twenty Years of Peace" at SIDA in Stockholm, 5 December, 2015. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 20 YEARS OF PEACE5 December 20151 pm-6 pmSIDA, Valhallavägen 199 StockholmPoster with more information (PDF)REGISTRATION: http://www.ui.positionett.se/tillfalle.php?id=1345Annika Björkdahl's personal page here on the department

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-speaks-twenty-years-peace - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Maysam Behravesh is one of the panelists at the LUPEF panel discussion: Stability and the Future of the Middle East on Thursday 10 December. Panel title: Stability and the Future of the Middle EastDate: 10 DecemberVenue: Lund, Cafe Athenhttps://www.facebook.com/events/448280315296870/Maysam Behravesh's personal page here on the department's website.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/behravesh-stability-and-future-middle-east - 2025-08-27

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond will participate in a debate on the Security Council Resolution SCR 1325 with focus on Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, organised by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, 10 December 2015. The debate is titled: Women, Peace and Security: Opportunities and Pitfalls of a Global Gender Norm.Programme for Women, Peace and Security: Opportu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-talks-about-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy-london - 2025-08-27