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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!
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
9 Jan 2026
Feeling secure in antagonism: The algorithmic mainstreaming of far-right fantasies
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.
19 Dec 2025
Joel Abdelmoez has successfully defended his thesis!
Joel Abdelmoez has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Time, Difference, and the Transnational: Feminist Activism and Solidarities in Egypt and Tunisia'. Congratulations to ...
18 Dec 2025
New book on democratic backsliding in Israeli politics and protracted conflict
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 Con...
12 Dec 2025
Bramsen is highly topical with a new book on the logic of peace and two new articles!
Isabel Bramsen has written the book Fredens logik - I verden og hverdagen (The Logic of Peace - In the World and Everyday Life) as well as two articles, ‘Conflictualisation: Theori...
1 Dec 2025
New guidance note on designing credible fossil fuel subsidy phase-out plans
In a new guidance note published with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), an international think tank, Jakob Skovgaard together with Jonas Kuehl and Mar...
13 Nov 2025
Malte Breiding has successfully defended his thesis!
Malte Breiding has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'European Sexual Dis/Integration: An Agonistic Paradox of Legitimacy in a Contested Union'. Congratulations to Dr. Brei...
7 Nov 2025
Agnese Pacciardi has successfully defended her thesis!
Agnese Pacciardi has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Mobility as a Practice: Border Externalisation and Colonial Encounters at the Euro-Senegalese Borderlands'. Congratu...
7 Nov 2025
Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Helding have authored the article “Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy” (in Swedish) in a special issue of the ...
4 Nov 2025
Mannergren & Björkdahl: A Critical Analysis of the WPS Agenda
Johanna Mannergren and Annika Björkdahl have co-authored the article “Knowledge Production on Women’s Experiences of Conflict: A Critical Analysis of the WPS Agenda” for a special ...
3 Nov 2025
The Nordics and development assistance: Still leaders but less exceptional?
In a new article, published in Cooperation and Conflict, Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström investigate the development policies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and the...
27 Oct 2025
Fariborz Zelli organises an official side-event for Lund University at the UN Climate Conference in Belém
Fariborz Zelli organises an official side-event for Lund University at the UN Climate Conference in Belém, Brazil (10-21 November).
21 Oct 2025
Ted Svensson and others honour Jens Bartelson in Cooperation and Conflict
Ted Svensson has co-authored a forum in Cooperation and Conflict which honors Jens Bartelson and critically discusses his contribution to the Nordic study of international relation...
17 Oct 2025
Securitization in the Security Community, cooperation and conflict in the Nordic
In a new article published in Cooperation and Conflict Roxanna Sjöstedt, together with Erik Noreen (Uppsala University), examines the dynamics of so-called pluralistic security com...