Published 26 September 2023 The annual negotiation game and role play is part of the European Governance course within the first semester of Lund’s long-standing and highly successful Masters in European Affairs (MEA). The European Council meeting of EU heads of state and government was hosted by the Department of Political Science, Lund university this week with great success. Guided by the Spani

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/european-council-negotiations-success-lund-masters-students - 2025-04-19

Published 13 October 2023 In an article published in Geopolitics, Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic explore the relationship between gender, silence and place by analysing the former rape camp Vilina Vlas in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The spa hotel Vilina Vlas in Višegrad (Wikimedia Commons). There is a deafening silence around the Vilina Vlas rape camp almost 30 years after the war. The

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/silence-surrounding-rape-camp-vilina-vlas-echoes-almost-30-years-after-war - 2025-04-19

Published 26 October 2023 Isabel Bramsen and Jonathan Luke Austin from the University of Copenhagen have published an academic article, Visual (data) observation in International Relations in Review of International Studies. The article discusses the use of visual data to observe real-time events in the study of international relations. Isabel Bramsen, Associate Professor and Director of Peace and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-austin-politics-seeing-differently - 2025-04-19

Published 26 October 2023 Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century to the present day. Professor Jens Bartelson, Department of Political Science, Lund University. A global intellectual history of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-when-and-how-did-modern-world-become-international-one - 2025-04-19

Published 13 November 2023 Conflictual cabinet terminations are seismic events in democracies, but their consequences are understudied. Florence So argues that the electoral impacts of conflictual cabinet terminations following non-policy conflicts are electorally costly. They signal parties’ deteriorating governing competence, which reduces parties’ vote shares. Florence So, Postdoctoral Fellow a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/florence-so-government-breakdown-published-american-political-science-review - 2025-04-19

Published 14 November 2023 Hanna Bäck, Robert Klemmensen and Florence So have received a three-year grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project "Divided Parliaments? Polarization, Moralization, and the Risk of Gridlock". The project will start next year. Congratulations! Description In well-functioning democracies, political representatives are capable of compromising to pass legislation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-robert-klemmensen-and-florence-so-receive-three-year-grant-riksbankens-jubileumsfond - 2025-04-19

Published 15 November 2023 New paper on critical pedagogies published in International Studies Perspectives (@ISP_Journal) by two teachers and a current student at Lund University’s Department of Political Science.   Christie Nicoson, Barbara Magalhães Teixeira, and Alva Mårtensson examine an ongoing elective course at the Department, Peace in the 21st Century: Critical Debates on Violence, Justic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-study-peace-and-what - 2025-04-19

Published 20 November 2023 Professor Hanna Bäck and Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt, Lund University. At the annual meeting in Gothenburg on 5 October, Hanna Bäck was elected as the new chair and Roxanna Sjöstedt as the new secretary of the Swedish Political Science Association. Congratulations on these honorary assignments! With this, the federation's website has also got an updated layout a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-sjostedt-new-chairman-and-secretary-swedish-political-science-association - 2025-04-19

Published 20 November 2023 'Caring feminist states? Paternalistic feminist foreign policies and the silencing of Indigenous justice claims in Sweden and Canada' by Annika Bergman Rosamond, Georgia De Leeuw and Jessica Cheung in INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS. Annika Rosamond Bergman Georgia de Leeuw ABSTRACTThe self-identification of Sweden and Canada as exceptionally caring and ethica

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-de-leeuw-and-cheung-paternalistic-feminist-foreign-policies - 2025-04-19

Published 21 November 2023 Associate Professors Ted Svensson and Agustín Goenaga, Lund University. Congratulations on the grant! Abstract Previous research has offered important insights about the instruments that states use to govern their populations. It has also shown that colonial experiences had far-reaching consequences for contemporary levels of political and economic development. However,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-and-agustin-goenaga-receive-three-year-grant-swedish-research-council-project-imperial - 2025-04-19

Published 24 November 2023 Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (SLU) have received a 4-year grant from Formas for the project ”NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning”. Congratulations! SummaryThe notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/project-achieving-sustainability-through-risk-taking-receives-4-year-grant-formas - 2025-04-19

Published 27 November 2023 Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt and Professor Hanna Bäck, Lund University. 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 secu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-back-olsson-receive-swedish-research-council-grant-analysis-societal-security-and - 2025-04-19

Published 27 November 2023 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 b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/originally-designed-field-experiment-voting-behavior-published-election-law-journal - 2025-04-19

Published 28 November 2023 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 resea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-selimovic-receive-grant-project-womens-experiences-holocaust - 2025-04-19

Published 12 December 2023 Professor Catarina Kinnvall and Professor Ian Manners, Lund University. 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ian-manners-represent-lund-university-horizon-project-pledge-politics - 2025-04-19

Published 19 December 2023 Associate Professor Sara Kalm, Lund University. 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 sit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-citizenship-and-mobility-poor - 2025-04-19

Published 9 January 2024 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. Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, Lund University. Associate Professor Gustav Agneman, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The article helps increase und

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agneman-and-strombom-new-article-journal-conflict-resolution - 2025-04-19

Published 11 January 2024 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. Professor Anders Uhlin, Department of Political Sciences, Lund U

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/arvidsson-and-uhlin-boundary-crossing-civil-society-elites - 2025-04-19

Published 11 January 2024 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magalhaes-teixeira-rethinking-way-peace-and-violence-are-understood-global-south - 2025-04-19

Published 12 January 2024 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 con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/advancing-new-research-agenda-digital-disruption-diplomacy - 2025-04-19