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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Oxford University Press has recently published a extensive Handbook of Swedish Politics. The book involves 48 scholars, mostly political scientists, seven of these from Lund: Rikard Bengtsson, Douglas Brommesson, Hanna Bäck, Ole Elgström, Johannes Lindvall, Annika Bergman Rosamond och Malena

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seven-political-scientists-lund-extensive-handbook-swedish-politics - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kristina Jönsson's (et al.) article Health policy evolution in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: context, processes and agency is one of the top downloaded articles from 2015 in Health Policy and Planning. Health Policy and Planning publishes high quality health policy and systems research that aims to inform policy a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonssons-health-policy-evolution-one-top-downloaded-articles - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maysam Behravesh has got a new position as a "Research Fellow" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, and will start working there in January 2016 while continuing to complete his PhD at the Department. CMES was founded in 2007 in an effort to support and coordinate research on the Middle Ea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/behravesh-new-research-fellow - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have co-authored the article "A tale of three bridges: agency and agonism in peace building", published in Third World. AbstractThis article explores agonistic processes of peace, which are situated within and constitutive of different spaces

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-mannergren-selimovic-have-co-authored-article-about-peace-building - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Angela Oels is a panelist in a big discussion on the outcomes of the Paris climate summit hosted in Lund by the Association of Foreign Affairs. Learn more on facebook.comAngela Oels personal page here at the Department’s website

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/big-discussion-about-paris-climate-summit - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Fredén defended her dissertation "Strategic Voting under Coalition Governments " on February 5 at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Associate professor Indridi Indridason, University of California Riverside, USA.Strategic Voting under Coalition GovernmentsAnnika Fredén 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-freden-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “The Postcolonial has Moved into Europe: Bordering, Security and Ethno-Cultural Belonging” AbstractThe legacy of European colonialisms and nationalisms has conditioned immigration and citizenship policies that inform the postcolonial move into Europ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-postcolonial-has-moved-europe - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Emil Edenborg has published "The secret funerals in Pskov: Spectacles of war and spectres from the past” in the Newsletter of the Institute of East European, Eurasian and Slavic Studies, UC Berkeley. Read the text on iseees.berkeley.edu (pdf, page 11)Emil Edenborg’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/edenborg-secret-funerals-pskov - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Teaching Academy at the Faculty of Social Sciences has appointed Karin Aggestam as Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP) and Magdalena Bexell, Douglas Brommesson and Åsa Knaggård as Qualified Teaching Practitioners (QTP). Learn more about Teaching Academy on the Faculty of Social Sciences website.Karin Aggestam's

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-members-teaching-academy - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond is one of the speakers at the seminar Women, War and Refugees on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on the 8th of March. The seminar is organised by the Faculty of Social Science amongst others at LU. Other contributors are Gudrun Schyman, party leader of Feministiskt Initi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/women-war-and-refugees - 2026-05-17

Karin Aggestam has edited the Open Access book "Israel: Democratic Backsliding and Elusive Peace". Lisa Strömbom contributes with a chapter on ”Agonistic Conflict Dynamics and Contested Past”. Read the book here: https://www.cmes.lu.se/sites/cmes.lu.se/files/2025-12/Israel%20Democratic%20backsliding%20and%20elusive%20peace.pdfKarin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestamLisa S

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-democratic-backsliding-israeli-politics-and-protracted-conflict - 2026-05-17

Joel Abdelmoez has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Time, Difference, and the Transnational: Feminist Activism and Solidarities in Egypt and Tunisia'. Congratulations to Dr. Abdelmoez! External reviewer: Professor Laleh Khalili, University of ExeterSupervisor: Karin AggestamAssistant supervisor: Rola El-Husseini DeanMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/joel-abdelmoez-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2026-05-17

Pasko Kisić-Merino has a new article published at the Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR) on how social media and neoliberal culture turn political conflict into spectacle. Drawing on a Lacanian framework, Pasko Kisić-Merino shows how people seek ontological security online through two intertwined features: programmable feeds that reward engagement and homophilic networks that nurture a ‘lov

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feeling-secure-antagonism-algorithmic-mainstreaming-far-right-fantasies - 2026-05-17

Jana Wrange explores the relationship between the concept of strategic autonomy and the idea of a European total defence. By tracing the trajectory of EU security discourses from 2010 to 2024, the article shows a growing emphasis on total defence at the EU level, combining civilian and military capabilities, well before the recent resurgence of the concept of strategic autonomy. The findings sugge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-jana-wrange-strategic-autonomy-and-european-total-defence - 2026-05-17

Annika Björkdahl contributes insight on just and democratic peace to the article "Rethinking Peace in Turbulent Times" in Peacebuilding with Christine Cheng, Thania Paffenholz, SungYong Lee, Gearoid Millar and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara. Once a lively global conversation about how to build and sustain peace, today’s discourse has been hijacked by the language of security, deterrence, and defence.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peacebuilding-power-politics-how-security-talk-crowding-out-imaginations-peace - 2026-05-17

Feel overwhelmed but realise the need to understand what's going on? Academic analytical frameworks can help. European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland. Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened US government is talking about simply taking Greenland for its

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-publishes-new-article-four-ways-understand-whats-going-us-denmark-and-greenland - 2026-05-17

Sara Kalm has co-authored an article with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall (Gothenburg University), which has been published in Journal of European Social Policy. The article contributes to the literature which seeks to explain the birth and design of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. It does so from a novel perspective, as it analyzes how welfare state institutions influenced the positions states

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-co-authors-un-refugee-convention-welfare-state-perspective - 2026-05-17

In times of new geopolitical challenges, the concept of total defense has been revived, in which all citizens contribute to national defense efforts. How authorities communicate this new strategy, and when such crisis communication leads to increased defense willingness, is an important issue that Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt, together with Amanda Remsö and Emma Renström from Kristianstad Unive

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-and-sjostedt-effects-authorities-crisis-communication-individual-defense-willingness - 2026-05-17

Annika Björkdahl, Jenny Lorentzen, and Inger Skjensbæck have contributed to and edited the new book Backlash Against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Contesting Gender Norms. In recent years, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has faced mounting resistance from regressive political forces seeking to undermine its hard-won normative gains. This Open Access book offers a timely and rigo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-lorentzen-and-skjensbaeck-have-contributed-and-edited-new-book-backlash-against-women - 2026-05-17

Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, and Johanna Mannergren have co-authored the book "Troubling Testimonies. Women's narratives of war, genocide and sexual violence" (New York University Press, 2026). This book explores women’s testimonies of war across four powerful cases: Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yazidi women in Syria and Northern Iraq. We develop a theoretical framework li

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-kristine-hoglund-and-johanna-mannergren-give-voice-womens-testimonies-war - 2026-05-17