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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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).
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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...
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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...
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10 Oct 2025
Evan Drake has successfully defended his thesis!
Evan Drake has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'From Lock-In to Phase-Out: Pathways Towards Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform'. Congratulations to Dr. Drake!
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30 Sep 2025
Successful EU role-play engaged master's students in Lund
During the week, the appreciated negotiation and role-play was once again carried out within the course European Governance, a central part of the first semester of the Masters in ...
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29 Sep 2025
Normative Leadership Weakened – Elgström & Rosén Sundström on the Fall of the FFP
Sweden’s feminist foreign policy (FFP), launched in 2014, positioned the country as a global leader on gender equality. But how has Sweden’s image changed since the policy was resc...
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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...