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Elsa Hedling’s and Douglas Brommesson’s article "Security through European integration or flexible autonomy: ambivalence in Sweden’s position on the Eastern Partnership” has been published in Global Affairs. In the article Hedling and Brommesson explore Sweden’s multiple roles in foreign policy in relation to its actions as an EU member state, seeking also to contribute to the understanding of sma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-and-brommesson-swedens-security-policy-ambivalence - 2025-10-29

Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson have received funding from the Research Council Formas for the project "Putting a price on carbon emissions: what makes states adopt carbon pricing policies?". The project will answer the question which factors influence states to adopt carbon pricing policies (carbon taxes and emissions trading systems), by mapping the states and sub- and supran

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/grant-money-two-projects - 2025-10-29

Douglas Brommesson has, together with Ann-Marie Ekengren, co-authored the chapter ”Homogenisation or fragmentation? Perceptions of mediatisation among Swedish and Finnish parliamenatrians” in the book ”Cartelisation Convergence or Increasing Similarities?”. Brommesson’s and Ekengren’s chapter is a part of a volume aiming to put the cartel party theory under scrutiny. In this volume, a group of pol

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-cartel-party-theory-focus-swedish-party-system - 2025-10-29

Nina Wilén has, together with other researchers, co-authored two articles in Journal of Eastern African Studies. Wilén is also guest editor for the Special Collection together with David Ambrosetti and Jean-Nicholas Bach. The articles are ”Rwanda’s military as a people’s army: heroes at home and abroad” (written by Nina Wilén and Josefine Kuehnel) and ”The Burundian army’s trajectory to profession

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-two-articles-special-collection-african-militaries-peace-operations - 2025-10-29

Fabio Cristiano has contributed with the chapter “Bodies of Cyberwar: Violence and Knowledge beyond Corporeality” to the newly published volume ”Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence”. This international collection brings together accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity, and positionality within the process

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-cyberwar-and-violence - 2025-10-29

Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have contributed the chapter ”Feminist Ethnographic Research: Excavating Narratives of Wartime Rape”, in the volume ”Ethnographic Peace Research”. This chapter analyzes women's narratives of war time rape in order to generate knowledge about women’s experiences of transitions from war to peace. Bosnia Herzegovina during the war 1992-1995, a country

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-war-time-rape - 2025-10-29

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Ted Svensson have both contributed with a book chapter to the edited volume ”The politics of identity: place, space and discourse”. Ted’s chapter centres on discrimination on the basis of caste in India and Annika’s text debates military intervention and the politics of memory in a Swedish context. About Annika Bergman Rosamond’s book chapter:Whilst Sweden’s changing ap

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-svensson-have-both-contributed-book-chapter-politics-identity - 2025-10-29

Hanna Bäck has, together with Emma Bäck and David Sivén, co-authored the article ”Why engage in collective action? The conditional effect of social support and efficacy on protest participation”, which was recently published in “Basic and Applied Social Psychology”. The article focuses on answering the question of why people engage in protest activities. The authors suggest that intentions to enga

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-protest-participation - 2025-10-29

Fabio Cristiano has authored the article “From Simulations to Simulacra of War: Game Scenarios in Cyberwar Exercises”, which is part of the latest issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. Abstract: This article explores the underlying culture of war sustaining the setting of scenarios within cyberwar games. In particular, it engages with the question of how to simulate a phenomenon that, d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-cyberwar-and-simulations - 2025-10-29

Michael Hansen has, together with Jennifer Clemens, co-authored the article "What to expect when you’re electing: the relationship between far-right strength and citizenship policy in Europe", which was recently published in "Comparative European Politics". The analysis builds on previous research exploring the impact of far-right support on citizenship policy. Using Bayesian analyses, the researc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-radical-rights-impact-citizenship-policy-europe - 2025-10-29

Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsson have recently published their article ”Crafting the ’Well-Rounded Citizen’: Empowerment and the Government of Counterradicalization” in International Political Sociology. The study explores and critically discusses how preventative work against violent extremism has come to revolve around fostering citizens.Learn more on academic.oup.com Niklas Altermark’s perso

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-preventative-work-against-violent-extremism - 2025-10-29

Michael Hansen has, together with Kathleen Dolan from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, co-authored the article "Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women’s Underrepresentation in Elected Office", which was recently published in "Political Research Quarterly". While scholars understand some of the reasons for the underrepresentation of women in elected office in the U

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-public-perceptions-womens-underrepresentation-elected-office - 2025-10-29

Why are some governments more corrupt than others? Why do high-level officials in some countries seem to extract more rents than others? In the recently-published article “Cabinets, Prime Ministers, and Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Governments in Post-War Europe” Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell, together with Staffan Lindberg, present one answer to such questions, focusing on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/corruption-governments - 2025-10-29

What different roles have municipalities had in the emerging processes of experimental governance - or governance through trials and urban living labs? This question is discussed in a new article by Annica Kronsell and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren. The article ”Experimental governance: the role of municipalities in urban living labs” has been publish in the journal European Planning Studies.Read the art

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/experimental-governance - 2025-10-29

There are studies that show that women and men are assessed and treated differently within academia. This is something Hanna Bäck, the new chair for the Swedish Research Council’s evaluation committee for political science, peace and conflict studies, and media and communication studies, want to change. Hanna Bäck has previously participated in the Swedish research council’s assessment group for p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-chair-swedish-research-councils-evaluation-committee - 2025-10-29

Hanna Bäck has, together with Emma Bäck, Marie Gustafsson Sendén and Sverker Sikström, co-authored the article ”From I to We: Group Formation and Linguistic Adaption in an Online Xenophobic Forum”, which was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. The article focuses on processes of group identification and how individuals adapt in an online forum. The authors analyze tex

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-individuals-adapt-groups-online - 2025-10-29

Women’s role in peace processes, and the political economy of gender-based violence in post-conflict societies. These are topics researched by one of the new honorary doctors in social sciences – the political scientist Jacqui True. Jacqui True is a professor of political science and international relations in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University in Australia where she is the Directo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-honorary-doctor-expert-women-peace-processes - 2025-10-29

Ulrika Waaranperä and Sandra Engstrand, PhD-students at Lund University and Malmö University, will defend their dissertations this week. Ulrika Waaranperä will defend her dissertation "Histories of land: Politicization, property and belonging in Molo, Kenya" on April 19 at 10.15 in Niagara, Malmö University. The external reviewer is professor Morten Bøås, Norwegian Institute of International Affai

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-dissertations-department - 2025-10-29

Christer Jönsson has contributed with the chapter "Classical Liberal Internationalism" to the revised edition of the book ”International Organization and Global Governance” (edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson). Although unfairly pilloried for being out of touch with "reality" by a new generation of realist scholars after World War II, classical liberal internationalism was clear about

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/revised-edition-classical-liberal-internationalism - 2025-10-29

Why are some countries more democratic than others? Why do some countries remain democratic whereas other backslide toward authoritarianism? In the recently-published article “Economic development and democracy: An electoral connection”, Jan Teorell, together with Carl Henrik Knutsen, John Gerring, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Mathew Maguire, Michael Coppedge and Staffan Lindberg, argue that a clear relat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/economic-development-and-democracy - 2025-10-29