Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Who cares about the public sphere?”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of the journal European Journal of Political Research. In this article, Agustín Goenaga examines to what extent citizens consider the public sphere important for democracy. Many of today's most pressing democratic challenges are related to the quality of public debates,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-cares-about-public-sphere - 2025-08-21

Annika Björkdahl is one of the authors of the article “Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa”, which has been published in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. The article shows how peacebuilding cannot address persistent structural, spatial and economic violence in South Africa. More information about the article can be found on Taylor & Fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-peacebuilding-south-africa - 2025-08-21

Maiken Røed’s article “Party goals and interest group influence on parties” has been published in the journal West European Politics. The comparative analysis of interest groups’ influence on political parties in six European democracies shows that ideological proximity between interest groups and parties, as well as parties’ willingness to compromise on policy, affect interest groups’ influence.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-interest-group-influence-political-parties - 2025-08-21

Lisa Justesen and Jakob Strandgaard have defended their dissertations this week. Lisa Justesen Lisa Justesen defended her dissertation "The Emerging Outer Space Order: Professional Orders, Heterarchy, Hypermodernity and Political Reason" on May 20 at 10.15. The external reviewer was Professor Mark Rhinard, Stockholms University. Lisa Justesen’s dissertation aims to make sense of, and to conceptual

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-dissertations-department-0 - 2025-08-21

Both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict see the other party as an enemy, which confirms the threat. It is necessary to put the civilians and their suffering in focus, says Lisa Strömbom. Photo: Shutterstock Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which has harvested immense humanitarian suffering on both sides. And it must happen quickly, according to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2025-08-21

Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Transforming practices of diplomacy: the European External Action Service and digital disinformation” published Open Access in the journal International Affairs. The article explores the transformative role of practices of countering digital disinformation in European Union diplomacy. It argues that the rise in efforts to counter disinformation and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-diplomatic-practices-countering-digital-disinformation - 2025-08-21

Julie Hassing Nielsen and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article ”Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic”, which has been published in the journal West European Politics. Did the different public-health policies that Sweden and Denmark pursued in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic result in different levels of public trust in governments’ and health auth

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-and-lindvall-trust-government-during-covid-19-epidemic - 2025-08-21

Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Katharine Wright (Newcastle University) published the article ‘Nato’s Strategic Narratives – Angelina Jolie and the Alliance’s Celebrity and Visual Turn’ in the journal Review of International Studies. The article focuses on Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to Nato in 2018, and how that signals a move to brand the alliance's strategic narrative within t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-natos-strategic-narratives-and-celebrity - 2025-08-21

Elin Fjellman and Malena Rosén Sundström has co-authored the article ”Making a (Political) Career: Young Party Members and Career-Related Incentives for Party Membership”. The article has been published in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. The study investigates what career-related incentives young and active party members consider when calculating costs and benefits of their party membe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/young-party-members-and-their-thoughts-careers - 2025-08-21

Catarina Kinnvall and Tereza Capelos have co-edited the special issue “The Psychology of Extremist Identification” (volume 26 Issue 1, 2021) in the journal European Psychologist. The special issue aims to widen the analysis of extremism to account for the unresolved puzzles that continue to plague practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike:  Why some individuals engage in extremist politics

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-how-extremism-can-be-prevented - 2025-08-21

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have co-authored a chapter, entitled “Differentiated Citizenship: Multiculturalism, Secularism and Indian Foreign Policy”, in the book The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy (edited by J. Dragsbaek Schmidt and S. Chakrabarti), Routledge. The book constitutes a first attempt to systematically analyze and focus on the differen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-indias-foreign-policy - 2025-08-21

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published the book The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals. Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability. The book contributes new knowledge on processes related to the 2030 Agenda at the nexus of global and national political levels. It focuses on three countries at different levels of socio-economic development and democratisation: Ghana, Ta

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-2030-agenda-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-08-21

Ted Svensson, Jens Bartelson and Martin Hall have each contributed with book chapters in the handbook ”Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations”. Ted Svensson with the book chapter ”Decolonisation and the Erosion of the Imperial Idea”. The chapter maintains that 20th-century decolonisation, unlike previous historical episodes wherein particular empires were resisted and declined, r

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/book-chapters-historical-international-relations - 2025-08-21

Anthoula Malkopoulou has authored two articles. The first article is titled "Greece: A Procedural Defence of Democracy against the Golden Dawn" and is published in the journal European Constitutional Law Review. This article explores how democracies that do not ban parties defend themselves. Rather than being too passive and therefore more vulnerable as is often assumed, these non-militant, 'toler

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/using-criminal-law-and-sortition-against-antidemocratic-parties - 2025-08-21

Elsa Hedling has together with Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University) co-authored the article ”Practice Approaches to the Digital Transformations of Diplomacy”, published Open Access in the journal International Studies Review. The article aims to advance a research agenda to address key questions in the study of digital diplomacy on the basis of various practice approaches. In particular, the art

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-practice-approaches-digital-transformations-diplomacy - 2025-08-21

Ekatherina Zhukova, Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article ”Feminist foreign policies (FFPs) as strategic narratives: Norm translation in Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico” in the journal Review of International Studies (RIS). The article compares the Feminist Foreign Policies (FFPs) in Sweden, Canada, France and Mexico in their attempts to translate gender norms int

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feminist-foreign-policies-strategic-narratives - 2025-08-21

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have co-authored the article ”Feminist digital diplomacy and foreign policy change in Sweden” published Open Access in the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. The article examines the ways in which the launch of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy marked a change in its digital diplomacy efforts. The article concludes that Sweden acted

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-bergman-rosamond-and-hedling-feminist-digital-diplomacy - 2025-08-21

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article "Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: Lessons from Israel and Turkey" which is now available online (open access) in the journal Third World Quarterly. The article is part of a forthcoming Special Issue on agonistic peace, edited by Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen. Learn more about the article on Taylor & Francis’ website Lisa Strömbom

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-agonistic-peace - 2025-08-21

Ted Svensson has authored the article ”South Asian Nationalisms” in the journal Asian Ethnology. The article focuses on the manifold commonalities that exist between South Asian states — both in terms of shared traits or dynamics and the recurrent attribution of negative connotations to neighboring states — and how these impact on nation-building and the possibility of actuating more peaceable sta

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/svensson-south-asian-nationalisms - 2025-08-21

Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska has together with Torill Stavenes co-authored the article “Insider Status-Membership Involvement Offer Trade Off? The Case of Green Parties and Environmental Organisations”, which has been published in the journal Political Studies. The article investigates the expectation that parties and interest groups which become institutional insiders will curtail the participatory

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivanovska-hadjievska-green-parties-and-environmental-organisations - 2025-08-21