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In this article Nina Wilén claims that the "added value” argument often turns into an "added burden". In this article Nina Wilén claims that the "added value” argument, used to increase female peacekeepers’ participation, often turns into an "added burden", which undermines gender equality & entrenches gender stereotypes.Link to the publication on academic.oup.com Nina Wilén's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilen-added-value - 2025-10-23
Catarina Kinnvall has, together with Pasko Kisić Merino and Tereza Capelos, published a chapter entitled ‘Getting inside ‘the head’ of the far right: Psychological responses to the socio-political context’. The article appears in Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice, edited by Stephen D. Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin and Aaron Winter, published by Routledge.Researching the Fa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-has-published-new-article - 2025-10-23
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states began to provide many of the public services we now take for granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis of the political origins of modern public services during this period. Link to the publication on journals cambridge.org Johannes Lindvall´s personal page
New book by Mikael Sundström, published by Edward Elgar. From the introduction: I have something to say! It’s better to burn out than to fade away! The Kurgan (1986) quote from Highlander (movie) Most of us secretly yearn to make a mark on this world – to be lastingly remembered for some extraordinary feat. If you are reading this book you are presumably a would-be, soon-to-be or even actual acade
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-not-write-thesis-or-dissertation - 2025-10-23
Karin Aggestam has been appointed as Director for Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and coordinator of the strategic research area “Middle East in the Contemporary World". Why have you been appointed as new director and scientific research coordinator on the Middle East? From the start, I was part of the team that planned the new Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in 2007. Later I was also a
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-has-been-appointed-new-director-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-10-23
Nina Wilén’s article about how the ‘added value’ of female peacekeepers risks becoming an ‘added burden’ is now open access in International Affairs. In this article, Nina argues that discussions about female peacekeepers’ "added value" may increase gender inequality, due to the added burden that it places upon female peacekeepers - a burden which is not carried by their male counterparts and ther
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilens-latest-article-now-open-access-international-affairs - 2025-10-23
Catarina Kinnvall has recently published a book chapter entitled ‘Postcolonialism’ in the Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, edited by Didier Bigo, Thomas Diez, Evangelos Fanoulis, Ben Rosamond and Yannis A. Stivachtis and published with Routledge. This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights em
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-catarina-kinnvall-postcolonialism - 2025-10-23
Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catarina Kinnvall have together with Chris Agius (Swinburne University, Australia) published the article ‘Populism, Ontological Insecurity and Gendered Nationalism: Masculinity, Climate Denial and Covid-19’ in the journal Politics, Religion and Ideology. The article proceeds from a critical analysis of gendered narratives of nationhood as manifested in far-right populi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-annika-bergman-rosamond-and-catarina-kinnvall - 2025-10-23
Christie Nicoson has recently published an article entitled 'Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach.' This paper calls for stronger consideration of positive conceptualizations of peace and of intersectionality and degrowth in pursuit of peace and resilience. Not only does climate change make planetary limitations more salient, but it also highlights rising inequa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-christie-nicoson - 2025-10-23
Johannes Lindvall and Carl Dahlström (University of Gothenburg) has contributed a report to the Danish parliament’s study Managing the Covid-19-Crisis The report, which deals with Sweden’s response to Covid-19, is published as Appendix 4 in the Danish study. An English-language summary is available. Link to the study at ft.dk Johannes Lindvall's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-contributes-danish-report-covid-19 - 2025-10-23
In an article entitled "Nordic Security and Defence Cooperation: Differentiated Integration in Uncertain Times" Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the development and nature of Nordic security and defence cooperation. The article is part of the thematic issue on "Rediscovering Nordic Cooperation" in the journal Politics and Governance. Link to the publication on cogitatiopress.com Rikard Bengtsson’s person
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-nordic-security-and-defence-cooperation - 2025-10-23
New article in "Foreign Policy Analysis" by Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores. In this study, Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell with colleagues engage in the debate about leadership and foreign policy outcomes by focusing on the tenure of foreign ministers. They ask why some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others. Using a unique data set on over 1
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/war-performance-and-survival-foreign-ministers - 2025-10-23
In a chapter on ‘European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis’, Ian Manners argues that economic, social, ecological, conflictual, and political crises of the EU are not separate, but part of the same planetary crisis. The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. This chapter brings two very
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-european-union-and-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-10-23
Annika Björkdahl raises the critical question Where does peace take place? in the chapter Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies co-authored with Stefanie Kappler Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-where-does-peace-take-place - 2025-10-23
”Expanding the Reach of the Special Forces with a Gender-Mixed Deep Development Capability (DDC): Identifying Challenges and Lessons Learned” This policy brief examines the development and implementation of a new gender mixed military capability within the Belgian Special Forces Group, including female soldiers in the operational detachment of the unit for the first time. Wilén examines the develo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-nina-wilen - 2025-10-23
Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the chapter “Gender and Peaceful Change” in the Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations. edited by T.V. Paul et al. Link to the publication on oxfordhandbooks.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-gender-and-peaceful-change-international-relations - 2025-10-23
”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” Isabel Bramsen published a piece on ”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” in Journal of Resistance Studies. The study theorizes the micro-sociological dynamics of conflict and nonviolence as micro-sociological and discusses how nonviolent resistance can disrupt the rhythm and s
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-situational-power-nonviolence - 2025-10-23
Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social investment as a tool for municipal governance and organization?" The project anal
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2025-10-23
Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds personal web pageAnnika Kronsells personal web page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2025-10-23
Ted Svensson has co-authored an article that was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. It is entitled 'Lessons from the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India'. The article, which is informed by a self-categorisation and social-identity framework of identity entrepreneurship as well as social r
