Carlo Knotz defended his dissertation “Forcing the Unemployed to Work: Essays on the Politics of Unemployment Benefit Reform in Affluent Democracies" today at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Getting Tough on Unemployment: Essays on the politics of unemployment benefit reform in affluent democraciesCarlo Knotz’s personal page

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Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (UI), Stefanie Kappler (Durham University) and Susanne Buckley-Zistel (Marburg University) received a research grant for the project ”Peace and the Politics of Memory”. The project "Peace and the Politics of Memory" investigates how a post-conflict society harbours conflicting memories and experiences and how the making of memory is c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/research-grant-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-08-27

Hanna Bäck is one of the authors of the article ”Multiparty government and economic policy-making. Coalition agreements, prime ministerial power and spending in Western European Cabinets” which has been published in the journal Public Choice. AbstractMultiparty government has often been associated with poor economic policy-making, with distortions like lower growth rates and high budget deficits.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-governments-and-policy-making - 2025-08-27

Catarina Kinnvall is keynote speaker at three universities in New Delhi (India) this week; South Asia University, O.P. Jindal University och på Delhi University. She will give talks on:”The position of the Ahmadiyyas: Minority Rights in Pakistan” at South Asia University”Ontological Security and the Political Psychology of Radicalization” at O.P. Jindal University”Feeling Ontologically (In)secure:

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/outreach-new-delhi - 2025-08-27

Martin Hall has together with Ted Svensson and Annika Bergman-Rosamond gained research money from Vetenskapsrådet for the project ”Världsarvets politik”. Part of abstract:The project identifies two tensions that characterise global modernity and investigates how these can help to explain the contemporary design and pursuit of the politics of WH. Our research purpose is twofold, first to explore ho

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/82-million-sek-funding - 2025-08-27

Fariborz Zelli will chair the Earth System Governance conference in Nairobi on December 7-9. This year’s conference, the seventh in the series, is the first one in Africa. The overarching theme “Confronting Complexity and Inequality” will be discussed in panel and plenary sessions over three days. Environmental governance research in and about Africa will be at the heart of the conference. Apart f

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Kurtis Boyer and Fabio Cristiano will be talking at ISVW in Netherlands on November 12-13. They will talk about their article on drone warfare and humane meat as representations of the politics of empathy. Learn more on isvw.nlKurtis Boyer’s personal pageFabio Cristiano’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/outreach-animal-politics - 2025-08-27

The Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, has appointed Annika Bergman Rosamond as External Examiner for the Politics Programme for the academic years 2016-2019. Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

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Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have authored the article ”Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals”, published in Forum for Development Studies. The article can be found on tandfonline.comAbstract:This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bexell-and-jonsson-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-08-27

Researchers from our and other Lund University departments will launch the Lund Human Rights Research Hub on December 8, at 14.00-17.00 in the aula of the Main University Building. This network hub will stimulate cooperation on research, education and dissemination of human rights issues. See link for more information on the event and its key note lecture.Learn more on humanrights.lu.seSee Ted Sve

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NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Serena Kelly and Natalia Chaban have together with Ole Elgström published the article "Perceptions of the European Union's Fledgling Delegations: More Coherence, More Effectiveness?" in the journal European Foreign Affairs Review (vol. 21, no. 4). Abstract in English:The debate surrounding the challenge of improving coherence in European Union (EU) foreign policy is ongoi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/perceptions-european-unions-fledgling-delegations - 2025-08-27

The Swedish government is putting forward a range of proposals based on Maria Strömvik’s government report (SOU 2016: 10). The site europaportalen.se. has published an interview with the Minister for EU Affairs Ann Linde about the proposals she is putting forward based on Strömvik’s current investigation (in Swedish).Go to Maria Strömvik’s personal page.    

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Johannes Lindvall has received a large grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project Policing, Schooling, and Health Care in Historical and Comparative Perspective.

 Over the course of six years Johannes Lindvall will study the emergence of new types of public services in the nineteenth century, and its consequences for political developments in the twentieth century and in our own time

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/12-million-sek-project-policing-schools-and-health-care - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESERACHERS: Anders Uhlin has co-edited the book Demanding Justice in the Global South: Claiming Rights, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume.Theoretically, the authors aim to foster a holistic and multi-faceted understanding of how social and economic jus

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/politics-claiming-rights - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has co-authored a chapter entitled: 'Saffron and Orange: Religion, Nation and Masculinity in Canada and India’. The chapter has been published in 'The Routledge Handbook on Narrative and Life History', edited by Ivor Goodson, Ari Antikainen, Pat Sikes and Molly Andrews (London: Routledge 2017). For more information see routledge.comCatarina Kinnval's per

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/masculinity-canada-and-india - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Kurtis Boyer has co-authored a chapter entitled: Beyond Complicity And Denial: Animal Advocacy And The Right To Living Justly. The chapter was co-authored with Guy Scotton and Katehryne Wayne and is published in “Intervention or Protest: Acting for Nonhuman Animals”, edited by Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade and Andrew Woodhall (Wilmington: Vernon 2016).For more information

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/right-not-be-perpetrator-violence-towards-animals - 2025-08-27

Ole Elgström was the external examiner at the University of Bath. The thesis, written by Magdalena Nasieniak, examined the changes that have taken place in the role of the Council Presidency post-Lisbon, with an emphasis on the Presidency's role in EU foreign policy. Notably, the supervisor was Leslie Wehner, who graduated from our Master of European Affairs-programme in 2006.Ole Elgström's person

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-visited-bath-thesis-eu-foreign-policy - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Sebhatu writes about Gender-Just Peace and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu has recently authored the article “Reaching Higher: Women Liberators and Gender” which was published in the Horn of Africa Bulletin of the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala (November-December 2016 Vol. 28, Issue 6).This paper calls on women, peace and secu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reaching-higher-women-liberators-and-gender - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Douglas Brommesson has published a new book together with Ann-Marie Ekengren at the University of Gothenburg called The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-making and Humanitarian Intervention and published by Palgrave Macmillan. More information about the book is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137544605This book provides a systematic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/foreign-policy-adjusting-media-logic - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has, together with Natalia Chaban and Olga Gulyaeva, authored the article "Russian images of the European Union: Before and after Maidan", now published by Foreign Policy Analysis. Abstract:This article probes into scope conditions for image change, investigating what changes in Russian images of the European Union (EU) have taken place as a result of the Rus

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/russian-images-european-union - 2025-08-27