New teaching material by Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple Our colleagues Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple have recently launched a new teaching material – Beyond the Fossil Society – for high school and upper secondary school. In collaboration with the Swedish Society for Nature Conversation they have developed an online-based mat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/looking-future-world-beyond-fossil-society - 2025-09-01

In his chapter on ‘Normative Power Approach to European Union External Action, Ian Manners demonstrates how the Normative Power Approach (NPA) to the EU sets out a radically different means of studying and changing planetary politics The NPA uses normative theory, theories of explanation and understanding, and practical theories, all at the same time. The chapter clarifies how the NPA’s radical re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-normative-power-approach-eu-external-action - 2025-09-01

Johannes Lindvall has, together with Kerstin Enflo and Alexandra L. Cermeño, published the article “Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State” in the journal British Journal of Political Science. The article shows that the coming of the railroad in the middle of the nineteenth century strengthened the nation state vis-à-vis local and parochial interests. The expanding railroad

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-how-railroad-strengthened-nation-state - 2025-09-01

How can the long-term be considered in urban planning and experimentation? In a new article – "Planning for 1000 years: The Råängen experiment" published in the journal Urban Planning – Roger Hildingsson, Johannes Stripple and Alice Herrström have together with Peter Pelzer, Utrecht University, studied how the Church of Sweden as a landowner has taken on a new role as planner and urban developer i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-stripple-long-term-futures-urban-planning - 2025-09-01

Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban (University of Canterbury, New Zeeland) published a chapter on “Theorizing external perceptions of the EU” in the new textbook/handbook The External Action of the European Union. The book is edited by Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz and published by Macmillan International. Learn more on macmillanihe.com Ole Elgström’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu-1 - 2025-09-01

Malena Rosén Sundström, Ekatherina Zhukova and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article “Spreading a norm-based policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in international media”. The article has been published in the journal Contemporary Politics. The article investigates how Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) is reported in 17 regional powers, based on an analysis of two newspapers per countr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-zhukova-and-elgstrom-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-09-01

Jakob Skovgaard has authored the book “The Economisation of Climate Change –  How the G20, the OECD and the IMF Address Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Finance”. The book investigates how international economic institutions increasingly address climate issues. The international economic institutions’ involvement ranges from then IMF Managing Director Lagarde joining forces with environmentalist

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-book-international-economic-institutions-addressing-climate-change - 2025-09-01

After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punished for their wrongdoings. Rola el-Husseini is a researcher at CMES and Department of Political

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2025-09-01

Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Who cares about the public sphere?”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of the journal European Journal of Political Research. In this article, Agustín Goenaga examines to what extent citizens consider the public sphere important for democracy. Many of today's most pressing democratic challenges are related to the quality of public debates,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-cares-about-public-sphere - 2025-09-01

Annika Björkdahl is one of the authors of the article “Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa”, which has been published in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. The article shows how peacebuilding cannot address persistent structural, spatial and economic violence in South Africa. More information about the article can be found on Taylor & Fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-peacebuilding-south-africa - 2025-09-01

Maiken Røed’s article “Party goals and interest group influence on parties” has been published in the journal West European Politics. The comparative analysis of interest groups’ influence on political parties in six European democracies shows that ideological proximity between interest groups and parties, as well as parties’ willingness to compromise on policy, affect interest groups’ influence.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-interest-group-influence-political-parties - 2025-09-01

Lisa Justesen and Jakob Strandgaard have defended their dissertations this week. Lisa Justesen Lisa Justesen defended her dissertation "The Emerging Outer Space Order: Professional Orders, Heterarchy, Hypermodernity and Political Reason" on May 20 at 10.15. The external reviewer was Professor Mark Rhinard, Stockholms University. Lisa Justesen’s dissertation aims to make sense of, and to conceptual

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-dissertations-department-0 - 2025-09-01

Both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict see the other party as an enemy, which confirms the threat. It is necessary to put the civilians and their suffering in focus, says Lisa Strömbom. Photo: Shutterstock Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which has harvested immense humanitarian suffering on both sides. And it must happen quickly, according to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2025-09-01

Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Transforming practices of diplomacy: the European External Action Service and digital disinformation” published Open Access in the journal International Affairs. The article explores the transformative role of practices of countering digital disinformation in European Union diplomacy. It argues that the rise in efforts to counter disinformation and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-diplomatic-practices-countering-digital-disinformation - 2025-09-01

Julie Hassing Nielsen and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article ”Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic”, which has been published in the journal West European Politics. Did the different public-health policies that Sweden and Denmark pursued in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic result in different levels of public trust in governments’ and health auth

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-and-lindvall-trust-government-during-covid-19-epidemic - 2025-09-01

Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Katharine Wright (Newcastle University) published the article ‘Nato’s Strategic Narratives – Angelina Jolie and the Alliance’s Celebrity and Visual Turn’ in the journal Review of International Studies. The article focuses on Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to Nato in 2018, and how that signals a move to brand the alliance's strategic narrative within t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-natos-strategic-narratives-and-celebrity - 2025-09-01

Elin Fjellman and Malena Rosén Sundström has co-authored the article ”Making a (Political) Career: Young Party Members and Career-Related Incentives for Party Membership”. The article has been published in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. The study investigates what career-related incentives young and active party members consider when calculating costs and benefits of their party membe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/young-party-members-and-their-thoughts-careers - 2025-09-01

Catarina Kinnvall and Tereza Capelos have co-edited the special issue “The Psychology of Extremist Identification” (volume 26 Issue 1, 2021) in the journal European Psychologist. The special issue aims to widen the analysis of extremism to account for the unresolved puzzles that continue to plague practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike:  Why some individuals engage in extremist politics

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-how-extremism-can-be-prevented - 2025-09-01

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have co-authored a chapter, entitled “Differentiated Citizenship: Multiculturalism, Secularism and Indian Foreign Policy”, in the book The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy (edited by J. Dragsbaek Schmidt and S. Chakrabarti), Routledge. The book constitutes a first attempt to systematically analyze and focus on the differen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-indias-foreign-policy - 2025-09-01

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published the book The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals. Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability. The book contributes new knowledge on processes related to the 2030 Agenda at the nexus of global and national political levels. It focuses on three countries at different levels of socio-economic development and democratisation: Ghana, Ta

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-2030-agenda-and-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-09-01