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In a new article in European Societies, Anders Uhlin (together with Malin Arvidson) analyses the European Economic and Social Committee. Contributing to research on civil society elites in the EU context, this article focuses on the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). It explores who the main actors are, what roles they play, and what resources they use, value, and compete for in this a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anders-uhlin-european-economic-and-social-committee - 2025-12-21

Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Opening Up of International Organizations” that appears in the book "Beyond the Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics", edited by Christopher L. Pallas and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood, published by The University of Alabama Press. About the chapter: The opening up of international organizations to the part

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anders-uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-international-organizations - 2025-12-21

The authors examine the relationship between single member versus multimember decision-making boards in regulatory agencies in the case of telecom, and how this relates to the spread of mobile and fixed broadband. Drawing on literature from economics and political science and statistical analysis of empirical evidence, they find that the best way of organizing such agencies depends on the market s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/collegiality-and-efficiency-political-scientist-and-economist-provide-answer-looking-telecom - 2025-12-21

Daniel Møller Ølgaard has successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘The Technopolitics of Compassion: A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism’, in which he critically examines aid organisations’ use of new digital media technologies. External reviewer is Associate Professor Andrew A.G. Ross, Ohio University Link to the thesis at Lund University Research Porta

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/daniel-moller-olgaard-has-successfully-defended-his-phd-thesis - 2025-12-21

Agnese Pacciardi has co-authored a research article on the the language of border externalisation processes by examining the episteme that stands as the basis of policy documents on the EU–Turkey agreement. The article shows how the knowledge produced through the documents has effects on both the mainstream discourse on migration and on the legitimisation of violent border management practices. Sp

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agnese-pacciardi-language-border-externalisation-eu-turkey-deal - 2025-12-21

Fabio Cristiano has today defended his thesis The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond. External reviewer was Professor Anna Leander, Geneva Graduate Institute. The thesis explores how the politics of cyber conflict redefine violence, sovereignty, and territory in and through cyberspace. It does this by studying how the digital mediates diffe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-has-successfully-defended-his-phd-thesis - 2025-12-21

Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen have edited a Special Issue on the theme "Agonistic Peace: Advancing Knowledge on Institutional Dynamics and Relational Transformation" in the journal Third World Quarterly. The Special Issue comprises empirical studies from a wide range of cases at local, national and global levels. The various articles use and develop tools for analyses of agonistic processes in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-and-bramsen-agonistic-peace-third-world-quarterly - 2025-12-21

Thomas Hickmann in a new multi-authored open access article in Nature Sustainability co-led with Frank Biermann and Carole-Anne Sénit. Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals as the central normative framework for sustainable development worldwide. The effectiveness of governing by such

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/analysis-political-impact-sdgs - 2025-12-21

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have authored the article ‘The digital storytelling of feminist foreign policy: Sweden’s state feminism in digital diplomacy’ published Open Access in the European Journal of Politics and Gender The article interrogates the digital storytelling of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy. It analyses how digital platforms offer opportunities to reproduce narratives

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-hedling-swedens-state-feminism-digital-diplomacy - 2025-12-21

Karin Aggestam and Linda Eitrem Holmgren have co-authored the article “The Gender-Resilience Nexus in Peacebuilding: The Quest for Sustainable Peace” as part of a Special Issue on gender, resilience and conflict in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-eitrem-holmgren-gender-resilience-nexus-peacebuilding - 2025-12-21

Johannes Lindvall and Katren Rogers have co-authored the article “The Changing Faces of the Modern State” published in Governance. The article describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective of ordinary citizens. Abstract This paper describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-and-rogers-changing-faces-modern-state - 2025-12-21

The research program Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) has published three books summarising its research. Research findings concern sources of legitimacy, processes of legitimation and delegitimation, and consequences of legitimacy crises in global governance.  Contributing authors from our Department are Magdalena Bexell, Farsan Ghassim, Catia Gregoratti, Kristina Jönsson, Anders Uhlin an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-books-legitimacy-global-governance - 2025-12-21

Hanna Bäck, Emma Renström and Royce Carroll have co-authored the article, ”Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization”, which is published in Frontiers in Political Science. Abstract: What makes people affectively polarized? Affective polarization is based on the idea that partisanship can be a social identity leading to polarization in the form of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-immigration-attitudes-and-affective-polarization - 2025-12-21

SIEPS Podcast goes on a lookout for the EU in the Swedish election campaign. But EU issues occupy a hidden place among the parties' positions. Why is that? To reflect on this, this section will be visited by Magnus Blomgren, associate professor of political science at Umeå University, and Maria Strömvik, senior lecturer in political science at Lund University. The next Swedish government will repr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stromvik-and-blomgren-election-and-eu-issues - 2025-12-21

Between 2015 and 2020 it became significantly harder to be granted sick insurance in Sweden. Altermark and Plesner examine the lived experiences for chronically ill people of losing financial support. They show that consequences often are drastic, as people experience economic crisis. This in turn gives rise to stress and uncertainty with regards to the future that often contributes to deteriorati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-and-plesner-how-welfare-cutbacks-condition-narratives-sickness - 2025-12-21

With Russia’s descent into imperial nostalgia, it is more important than ever to understand the separatist entities dotting the shared neighbourhood with the European Union. We need to learn whether these represent indigenous creations that support—or colonial dependencies that subvert—international principles of self-determination and noninterference. We arbitrate between these competing scripts

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/understanding-separatist-entities-russias-near-abroad - 2025-12-21

Bergman and Davitti examine the future of human rights by looking at how ‘authoritarianism’, in its multifaceted forms and manifestations, intersects with existing discourses on climate change, environmental protection, populism and ‘gender deviance’. By adopting an intersectional lens they  interrogate the emergence of the right to a healthy environment and reflect on whether it will help against

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-davitti-gender-climate-breakdown-and-human-rights - 2025-12-21

In a new article Annika Bergman Rosamond explores the ethics of world heritage through a cosmopolitan lens. She proposes that cosmopolitanism provides fertile ground for the study of world heritage, in particular if combined with sensitivity to distinct indigenous ethical and political claims. The empirical emphasis is placed on the world heritage site of Laponia in the North of Sweden – a locatio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-explores-ethics-and-politics-world-heritage-new-article - 2025-12-21

Malte Breiding Hansen has authored the article “Between Warring Parties: Culture Wars Over LGBT+ Equality” for the Culture Wars in Europe and Eurasia series/research project at the Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University. The article applies the concept of heterogeneity to show that the culture wars framework i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-lgbt-culture-wars-illiberalism-studies-program-george-washington-university - 2025-12-21

The paper draws on the rich feminist scholarship, practice and activism of the 20th and 21st centuries to present some of the central feminist ideas, concepts and principles that the co-authors think should inform the idea of a feminist approach to foreign policy. It briefly considers the ideas and ambitions of the FFPs adopted to date, with a focus on Sweden as the pioneer of the concept. It argu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-has-co-authored-scga-position-paper-scotland-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-12-21