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Roxanna Sjöstedt, Hanna Bäck, and Louise Olsson at PRIO in Oslo have received a four-year research grant from the Swedish Research Council, the call Project Grant for Research on Societal Preparedness and Security. Congratulations! Project: All Aboard!? A multi-level analysis of societal security and preparedness in Sweden and NorwayAbstractRussian tanks rolling over the Ukraine border on February

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-back-olsson-receive-swedish-research-council-grant-analysis-societal-security-and - 2025-10-03

Annika Fredén has co-authored a new field experiment article in the US-based journal Election Law Journal in collaboration with Peter Esaiasson, University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, Stockholm University. We conducted the study in close collaboration with the Swedish election authorities and show that the infrastructure for voting and whether voters can select the ballots behind a closed scre

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/originally-designed-field-experiment-voting-behavior-published-election-law-journal - 2025-10-03

Professor Annika Björkdahl, together with Associate Professor Johanna Mannergren Selimovic at Södertörn University, have received research funding from the Swedish Research Council for three years of research with the project 'Beyond the Archive: Gendering Holocaust knowledge production through women's testimonies in the Ravensbrück archive'. Congratulations on the research grant! AbstractWe find

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-selimovic-receive-grant-project-womens-experiences-holocaust - 2025-10-03

The project is focused on the emotional economy of anti/pro-democratic expressions of grievances, with an aim to explain how anti-social grievance politics transform into democratic political action. Congratulations on the research grant! Project name: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance (PLEDGE)SummaryContemporary politics is angry and vengeful, with affective polarization and uncompr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ian-manners-represent-lund-university-horizon-project-pledge-politics - 2025-10-03

The distinctive features of modern citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive. These characteristics largely evolved during the “long nineteenth century”, the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Similar to that of today, the historical situation in which citizenship evolved was one of intensified mobility. With t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-citizenship-and-mobility-poor - 2025-10-03

Gustav Agneman and Lisa Strömbom has co-authored a new article in Journal of Conflict Resolution (open access). It presents results from a conjoint field-experiment in Meta, Colombia. The article helps increase understandings of ethnicity and former armed group affiliation shapes possibilities for political reintegration after war. It investigates whether participants in a conjoint experiment in C

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agneman-and-strombom-new-article-journal-conflict-resolution - 2025-10-03

Anders Uhlin has together with Malin Arvidsson authored the chapter “Civil Society Boundary Crossing and Elite Integration” published in Civil Society Elites: Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, and Contestation of Civil Society Actors at the Top, edited by Håkan Johansson & Anna Meeuwisse. This chapter explores elite boundary crossing between civil society and other societal sec

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/arvidsson-and-uhlin-boundary-crossing-civil-society-elites - 2025-10-03

Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has published a paper in Geopolitics: “Room to grow and the right to say no: theorizing the liberatory power of peace in the Global South”. How do we make space for peace in the Global South, in a context of rising economic and political inequalities as well as environmental and climate change impacts?AbstractThis article builds on feminist and decolonial perspectives an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magalhaes-teixeira-rethinking-way-peace-and-violence-are-understood-global-south - 2025-10-03

Karin Aggestam and Constance Duncombe have co-authored the article and edited the special issue “Advancing a New Research Agenda on Digital Disruption in Diplomacy”. Abstract:This article introduces the special issue on digital disruption in diplomacy. We propose a new research agenda, advancing novel conceptualisations and empirical insights into the hybrid nature of contemporary diplomatic pract

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/advancing-new-research-agenda-digital-disruption-diplomacy - 2025-10-03

On Wednesday, Georgia de Leeuw nailed her thesis, "The Comfort of Alignment: Mining, Green Steel, and Killjoy Desires in Sweden/Sápmi" at the Department of Political Science, Eden. The public defense will take place on Friday 1 March 2024, kl. 10.15, in Eden auditorium, Allhelgona kyrkogata 14, Lund.The external reviewer is Associate Professor Mattias Borg Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen. Abst

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/georgia-de-leeuw-nailed-her-thesis - 2025-10-03

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the contribution ”Foreign Policy Analysis and Feminism” published in the The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis. Read more about The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis here:https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-foreign-policy-analysis-9780198843061?cc=gb&lang=en&# Karin Aggestam’s page:https://www.svet.lu.se/e

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-foreign-policy-analysis-and-feminism - 2025-10-03

We would like to congratulate Ketevan Bolkvadze for receiving funding as a partner in a Europe-wide consortium. The project "Re-ENGAGE: Re-Engaging with Neighbours in a State of War and Geopolitical Tensions" received EUR 3 million in funding through the Horizon Europe framework. Lund is one of eight partners, and the consortium is led by the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI). T

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ketevan-bolkvadze-receives-funding-partner-europe-wide-consortium - 2025-10-03

Magdalena Bexell has published the article "Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the Sustainable Development Goals" in the journal Global Policy. The article suggests the notion of a global indicator reporting trajectory that is shaped by three main elements: the politics of indicators, a reporting infrastructure, and indicator advocacy. This is

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-global-governance-numbers - 2025-10-03

Although there is no clear connection between attractiveness and generosity, we often expect attractive people to be more generous than less attractive people. This study explores the bi-directional relationship between (expectations of) prosocial behavior and attractiveness. In a pre-registered behavioral experiment, we examined the causal effect of attractiveness on expectations of generosity an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/beauty-prosocial-behavior-how-prosocial-behavior-affect-attractiveness - 2025-10-03

Based on a review of the correspondence between Swedish diplomats in the Baltic States and the Swedish Foreign Ministry for the years 1938–1940, the purpose of this article is, firstly, to elaborate a framework for the analysis of intelligence reporting in times of crisis, secondly, to investigate how the Swedish diplomats in the Baltic States went about to report intelligence, and thirdly, to try

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/intelligence-reporting-and-crisis-swedish-diplomats-reporting-intelligence-baltic-states-1938-1940 - 2025-10-03

In November 2023, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake, and experts from the University of Cambridge and the International Institute for Sustainable Development organised a workshop in Paris titled 'Strengthening International Commitments to Shift Public Financial Flows Away from Fossil Fuels'. The workshop explored the complex issue of moving government money from supporting fossil fuels—like oil, coal, a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/workshop-highlights-challenges-redirecting-public-finance-fossil-fuels-sustainable-development - 2025-10-03

Roxanna Sjöstedt has authored the chapter "Foreign Policy Analysis and Securitization" which has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis (eds. Juliet Kaarbo & Cameron Thies). The chapter explores to what extent securitization theory can be linked to the issues raised within the field of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and argues that these seemingly different research tradit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roxanna-sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-10-03

Georgia de Leeuw has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The comfort of alignment: Mining, green steel, and killjoy desires in Sweden/Sápmi'. Congratulations! The comfort of alignment: Mining, green steel, and killjoy desires in Sweden/SápmiAbstractThis dissertation deals with Swedish extractivism in Sápmi through the examples of a planned iron ore mine in Gállok/Kallak and the hydrogen-bas

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/georgia-de-leeuw-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-03

Foreign ministers are prominent actors in foreign affairs, often second only to heads of government in their influence. Yet, despite the growing awareness of the importance of key actors in the study of international relations, foreign ministers remain understudied. In a recently published book, Bäck and colleagues present an original dataset on the background of foreign ministers, spanning thirte

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-foreign-ministers-hanna-back-alejandro-quiroz-flores-and-jan-teorell - 2025-10-03

In 1974, Sweden got a new Instrument of government which will be celebrated in the Swedish Riksdag on March 6. Leading scholars from law and political science have approached the new rules from different perspectives that compose a new edition that will be presented during the seminar. Annika Fredén is one of the contributors, with a chapter on the Swedish electoral system with emphasis on the fou

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-freden-participates-new-anthology-instrument-government-celebrates-50-years - 2025-10-03