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Elsa Hedling has co-authored the book The Everyday Making of EU Foreign and Security Policy. Practices, Socialization and the Management of Dissent published Open Access by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book confronts why despite increasing levels of contestation on CFSP issues between EU member states, EU practitioners generally perceive their working environment as fully functional and even impro

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/hedling-everyday-making-eu-foreign-and-security-policy - 2025-09-29

Johan Matz has published an article in Intelligence and National Security. This article approaches the intelligence dimension of Sweden’s arms exports by going back to three governmental decisions, taken in 1914, 1935 and 1971 respectively, all of which have been pivotal to both the Swedish government’s involvement in arms exports and the emergence of government institutions handling the intellige

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/johan-matz-arms-exports-and-intelligence-case-sweden - 2025-09-29

In a newly published article in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson analyse the appeal of far-right populist politics in the everyday and how this appeal is related to continuity and change in the global order. One of their key arguments is that while far-right populism is able to momentarily overwrite a sense of deep-felt anxiety among i

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/new-article-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-dynamics-everyday-populism - 2025-09-29

I kapitlet ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” analyserar Rikard Bengtsson EU:s egen rolluppfattning som utrikespolitisk aktör så som den framträder i EU:s globala strategi från 2016 och problematiserar hur de senaste årens förändrade internationellpolitiska kontext ger nya förutsättningar för EU att agera på den globala arenan. Kapitlet ingår i den nyligen utkomna antologin

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/bengtsson-om-eus-rolluppfattning-som-global-aktor - 2025-09-29

Den 9 mars 2022 diskuterade en expertpanel vid Lunds universitet den ryska invasionen av Ukraina. Forskarna resonerade kring: Varför är historien viktig för invasionen och konflikten? Vad innebär invasionen för Putins Ryssland, Ukraina och andra länder? Hur påverkar invasionen Sverige, Europa och resten av världen? Se paneldiskussionen “The Russian invasion of Ukraine - why history matters and wha

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/expertpanel-om-den-ryska-invasionen-av-ukraina - 2025-09-29

New article by Ted Svensson and Agnes Cornell on the introduction of merit reforms in nineteenth-century Britain and its possible colonial origins. In a newly published article in Governance, Ted Svensson (together with Agnes Cornell) explores whether the inspiration to reform the British Civil Service, along the lines suggested in the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan Report, was drawn from the introducti

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ted-svensson-and-agnes-cornell-introduction-merit-reforms-nineteenth-century-britain - 2025-09-29

I artikeln jämförs två tillvägagångssätt för transnationell humanitär återhämtning som italienska organisationer använde sig av för barn som drabbades av kärnkraftskatastroferna i Tjernobyl och Fukushima. Det första tillvägagångssättet var hemvistelse och det andra - lägervistelse. Med hjälp av djupintervjuer med barn och deras föräldrar från Belarus och Japan samt rapporter från icke-statliga org

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/kroniska-kriser-och-humanitara-insatser-vid-karnkraftskatastrofer-som-tjernobyl-och-fukushima - 2025-09-29

CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about the recent floods in Pakistan in Dagens Nyheter. The article was written (in Swedish) by Alexandra Urisman Otto and published on August 30, 2022. Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. More than 30 million people have been affected as large parts of Pakistan are under water, many of them being forced to le

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-about-climate-migration-pakistan-dagens-nyheter - 2025-09-29

CMES scholar Helen Avery organized a well-attended and successful two-day workshop on community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation. The workshop, "Community capacity-building in Yemen for climate adaptation of agriculture and water management in remote rural areas – short- and long-term strategies to support resilience, agility and food security", was held at the Columbia Global Cen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yemeni-capacity-building-workshop-climate-adaptation - 2025-09-29

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Linking Hydro-Physical Variables and Landscape Metrics using Advanced Data Mining for Stream-Flow Prediction" together with Vahid Moosavi (Tarbiat Modares University), Ayoob Karami (Pooyeshgaran Forogh Fardad Consulting Eng., Science and Technology Park), Negin Behnia (Yazd University) and Christian Massari (Research Institute for

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-and-predicting-streamflow-iran - 2025-09-29

Welcome to Pufendorf & Friends – A dialogue forum and After Work series at the Pufendorf IAS at Lund University. The event is co-hosted with The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the strategic research area (SRA) “The Middle East in the Contemporary World”. After work panel discussion on climate change in the Middle East With CMES researchers: Dalia Abdelhady,  Lina Eklund and 

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/after-work-panel-discussion-climate-change-middle-east - 2025-09-29

New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Read the latest issue of the Newsletter Sig

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-30 - 2025-09-29

CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has authored the article "Good Tidings for Saudi Women? Techno-Orientalism, Gender, and Saudi Politics in Global Media Discourse", published in CyberOrient. Gender equality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still a contentious and hotly debated issue, both within the country and in global news media as well as social media. Not least has the government app “Abshe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/techno-orientalism-gender-and-saudi-politics - 2025-09-29

CMES PhD researcher Joel Abdelmoez has reviewed the book "Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa" edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno. The book review is published in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. In the review, Joel writes: "While many works have taken an anthropological or ethnographical approach (cf. Ghannam, 2013; Naguib, 2015;  Malmström, 2021),

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/masculinity-middle-east-and-north-africa - 2025-09-29

Welcome to a book launch of the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas with editors Dalia Abdelhady (CMES, Lund University) and Ramy Aly (American University in Cairo) and contributing authors Öncel Naldemirci (Umeå University), Ángela Suárez Collado (University of Salamanca) and Pinar Dinc (CMES, Lund University). Event Information Where: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16, Lund) and on Zoom

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-book-launch-routledge-handbook-middle-eastern-diasporas - 2025-09-29

The Islamic presence in Europe is becoming normalised. But integration also leads to increased conflict, according to Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University’s new Professor of Islamic Studies. Oliver Scharbrodt came to the University last spring after taking up Sweden’s only professorship in Islamic Studies. “I was attracted by the fact that Lund is one of Europe’s classic top universities and that th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/integration-can-lead-conflict - 2025-09-29

CMES Phd researcher Joel Abdelmoez has written a Q & A on Qatar and the World Cup on the blog Tabsir. In the blog post, Joel describes Qatar politically and economically and discusses the controversies surrounding Qatar acting as host to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. One issue is the fact that Qatar and FIFA have been accused of corruption and irregularities in relation to the election process. Another

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/qatar-and-world-cup-questions-and-answers - 2025-09-29

CMES scholar Svante Lundgren has authored the article "När den assyriska tragedin blev Seyfo: En undersökning av svens-assyrisk minnespolitik" [In English: "When the Assyrian Tragedy Became Seyfo: A Study of Swedish-Assyrian Memory Politics"] published in Historisk Tidskrift för Finland. Seyfo is the name Assyrians use for the Assyrian genocide. It is an Assyrian (Aramaic) word meaning sword, as t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/when-assyrian-tragedy-became-seyfo - 2025-09-29

This panel of Middle East experts will discuss: What is the status of women’s rights in Iran? How can we understand recent political acts of resistance and civil protests expressed by young people in Iran? What is the role of the Iranian diaspora, and what is the impact of these protests beyond Iran regionally and globally? The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), together with the S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-panel-protests-iran - 2025-09-29

What is most surprising about the demonstrations in Iran, is how young the protesting girls are. So says Rola El-Husseini, researcher in political sociology and expert on women's movements in the Middle East. On Monday, she will participate in a panel discussion on Iran, organised by the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. – Iran is rocked by major protests about every t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leadership-needed-protests-usher-change-iran - 2025-09-29