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26 Sep 2025
Let’s celebrate our colleagues’ remarkable achievements — five new books hot off the press!
Today, we gathered in the Department’s skybar to hear five inspiring mini-presentations showcasing these exciting new publications. The books span a wide range of timely and import...
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25 Sep 2025
The road to a global plastics agreement – conflicting political and economic interests
In the article, Johannes Stripple, Karl Holmberg and co-authors examine how the negotiations of a global plastics agreement are characterised by differing priorities between countr...
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19 Sep 2025
‘Two hands, multiple fingerprints’: how ideology and politics shaped China’s water market reforms (1998-2021)
How do market ideas become institutionalized in the world's largest and oldest one-party state? In a new open access article with the journal Environmental Politics, Jesper Svensso...
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16 Sep 2025
Skovgaard and Park on climate risk framing in global green finance governance
In a new open-access article with the journal Earth System Governance, Jakob Skovgaard and Hyeyoon Park (previously the Department of Political Science, LU, now University of Stirl...
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2 Sep 2025
What to know about the SDGs: New book reinforces the case for sustainable development
Are you looking for a user-friendly overview of the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This open access book is the answer!
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29 Aug 2025
Ian Manners is editor of special issue of Cooperation and Conflict on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis'
Ian Manners has edited the twentieth anniversary special issue on ‘Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis', published September 2025.
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28 Aug 2025
Rosén Sundström and Elgström on Sweden’s former Feminist Foreign Policy
Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have published a chapter on Sweden’s former Feminist Foreign Policy (2014-2022) and how it was implemented in diplomatic work.
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15 Aug 2025
Bolkvadze publishes new study on police subversion in hybrid regimes
Ketevan Bolkvadze, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, has published a new article in Governance titled "Corrupt or Repressive? How Political Competition Incent...
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19 Jun 2025
Social Investments in Swedish Municipalities – The Rise and Fall of a Reform
In this article, recently published in Acta Sociologica, Mats Fred draws on more than a decade of fieldwork on social investments in Sweden to explore the rise and fall of reforms:...
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16 Jun 2025
Who counts when we talk about healthcare and rights? New article by Stina Melander and Julia Bahner
During the pandemic, many fell through the cracks of the safety net. For people with long Covid, this became painfully clear: they existed – but were not acknowledged. Now, a new s...
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13 Jun 2025
Anne Lene Stein has successfully defended her thesis!
Anne Lene Stein has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel'. Congratulations to Dr...
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2 Jun 2025
Who should own nature? New study examines the governance of biodiversity finance
Halting biodiversity loss requires more than just increased funding – it also demands better governance of how resources are mobilised, allocated, and monitored. A new study in Cur...
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28 May 2025
Can the EU’s push for LGBT rights backfire? A new article by Malte Breiding says it might
The European Union (EU) often presents itself as a champion of LGBTQ rights, promoting equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. However, in a recently publishe...
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23 May 2025
Ian Manners gives keynote lecture on 'The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics' in Brussels
Ian Manners gives the European Foreign Affairs Review (EFAR) keynote lecture on 'The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics' to the annual European Union in Interna...
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21 May 2025
How do we organize the sustainable travel of the future?
This study by Russell Cannon, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Mats Fred examines how the sustainable mobility of the future is emerging.
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20 May 2025
Our friend and colleague Jessica Blom-Larsson has passed away
On Thursday 15 May, we received the sad news that Jessica Blom-Larsson had passed away after a sudden illness. She leaves a large void at the Department of Political Science with c...
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16 May 2025
Karl Holmberg has successfully defended his thesis!
Karl Holmberg has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Embedded disposability: A cultural political economy of plastics'. Congratulations to Dr. Holmberg!
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9 May 2025
Jana Wrange has successfully defended her thesis!
Jana Wrange has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Civil Defence (Re)Emerged: A Multi-Level Perspective on Policy Developments in Post-Crimea Europe'. Congratulations to Dr...
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6 May 2025
Annika Björkdahl and Sofia Cognini on Italian right-wing leaders' anti-gender messages
Annika Björkdahl and Sofia Cognini have published the article “Anti-genderism in 280 characters: A study of Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni’s online discourse” in Party Politics....
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5 May 2025
Nicolas Rodriguez Hedenbratt has successfully defended his thesis!
Nicolas Rodriguez Hedenbratt has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'The Politics of Radio and Television in Western Democracies'. Congratulations to Dr. Rodríguez Hedenbrat...