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18 Jun 2026
Book launch celebrates 75 years of political science in Lund
On 17 June, staff and guests gathered at the Department of Political Science in Lund to celebrate the release of the jubilee book Statsvetenskapliga institutionens underbara öden o...
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16 Jun 2026
Björkdahl, Höglund and Mannergren: Women’s testimonies reshape how war is understood
Women's testimonies have changed the way the world recognizes and acknowledges violence in war. Despite this, women remain marginalized in many portrayals and accounts of conflict.
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15 Jun 2026
Jesper Svensson and international researchers on local solutions to water crises
Water crises are often framed as global challenges—but solutions are frequently local, according to a new article by Jesper Svensson and international collaborators.
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3 Jun 2026
Stissing Jensen and Jönsson about multistakeholder partnerships and the translation of partnering practices
Marie Stissing Jensen and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”From global multistakeholder partnerships to local action: the translation of partnerships” in the journal In...
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25 May 2026
Sjöstedt on pandemics, securitization, and the importance of functional actors
In a recent article published in International Studies Review, Roxanna Sjöstedt theorizes and analyzes the role of so-called functional actors in securitization processes.
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21 May 2026
Lund Masters in European Studies students celebrate Europe Day seminar in Copenhagen
Students from the Department of Political Science's Master's in European Studies joined almost 100 master’s students from Lund, Copenhagen, and Malmö universities to celebrate Euro...
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13 May 2026
Hanna Ekström Pigot has successfully defended her thesis in Environmental Science!
Hanna Ekström Pigot has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Diverse People, Diverse Forests? The role of social-ecological interactions in biodiversity governance'. Congratu...
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8 May 2026
Skovgaard, Knaggård, Hildingsson, and Sacks Ferrari on carbon taxes in Sweden and Mexico
In a new article in Environmental Policy and Governance, Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård, Roger Hildingsson, and Sofía Sacks Ferrari (formerly of the Department of Political Science)...
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23 Apr 2026
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren is awarded a FORMAS grant for the project “Church Environments as a Resource in Sustainable Community Building”
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has been awarded SEK 6 million through FORMAS’s open call for the project “Church Environments as a Resource in Sustainable Community Building: Between the E...
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17 Apr 2026
Oscar II Stipend awarded to Malte Breiding
Malte Breiding has been awarded the Oscar II Stipend for his doctoral thesis European Sexual Dis/Integration: An Agonistic Paradox of Legitimacy in a Contested Union.
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27 Mar 2026
Lisa Strömbom explores memory dialogues during and after war in the new book Agonistic Memory and Peace
Lisa Strömbom has recently published Agonistic Memory and Peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine (Edinburgh University Press). The book investigates the role of mem...
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20 Mar 2026
de Donà and Jönsson about multi-stakeholder partnerships and responsible accountability
Matteo de Donà and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”Responsible Accountability? Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships, Sustainable Development and Global Health” in the journa...
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16 Mar 2026
Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund and Johanna Mannergren give voice to women’s testimonies from war
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 Univ...
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5 Mar 2026
Jana Canavan has successfully defended her thesis!
Jana Canavan has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Interspecies Freedom: Toward a Rethinking of Human-Animal Relations'. Congratulations to Dr. Canavan!
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21 Jan 2026
Björkdahl, Lorentzen, and Skjensbæck have contributed to and edited the new book Backlash Against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Contesting Gender Norms.
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.
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20 Jan 2026
Bäck and Sjöstedt on the effects of authorities’ crisis communication on individual defense willingness
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 th...
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19 Jan 2026
Sara Kalm and co-authors on the UN Refugee Convention from a welfare state perspective
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.
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15 Jan 2026
Ian Manners publishes new article on ‘Four ways to understand what’s going on with the US, Denmark and Greenland’ in The Conversation
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 respo...
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13 Jan 2026
From Peacebuilding to Power Politics: How Security Talk Is Crowding Out Imaginations of Peace
Annika Björkdahl contributes insight on just and democratic peace to the article "Rethinking Peace in Turbulent Times" in Peacebuilding with Christine Cheng, Thania Paffenholz, Sun...
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12 Jan 2026
New article by Jana Wrange on strategic autonomy and European total defence
Jana Wrange explores the relationship between the concept of strategic autonomy and the idea of a European total defence.