Published 22 April 2022 Main supervisor Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, defender Sarai-Anne Ikenze and External reviewer Professor Nicolas Van De Walle, Cornell University. Today Sarai-Anne Ikenze succesfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment: An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity’, in which she descriptively demonstrates significant continuity over t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sarai-anne-ikenze-has-defended-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-08-09

Published 17 May 2022 In the recently published second edition of Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (editor Brian J.C. McKercher), Christer Jönsson contributes a chapter entitled ”Theorising Diplomacy” and Rikard Bengtsson a chapter on ”The European Union in International Relations: Great Power under Strain?”. More information can be found here, on Routledge's site.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-and-bengtsson-routledge-handbook-diplomacy-and-statecraft - 2025-08-09

By bjorn [dot] frostner [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 23 May 2022 Niklas Altermark and Magnus Dahlstedt are the editors of the new anthology "Bortom systemskiftet - Mot en ny gemenskap" where leading welfare researchers discuss Sweden's system shift and ways forward. The welfare state that was created in Sweden in the 20th century has been transformed at a rapid pace for

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/beyond-system-shift-towards-new-community - 2025-08-09

Published 20 May 2022 In a new article in European Societies, Anders Uhlin (together with Malin Arvidson) analyses the European Economic and Social Committee. Contributing to research on civil society elites in the EU context, this article focuses on the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). It explores who the main actors are, what roles they play, and what resources they use, value, and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anders-uhlin-european-economic-and-social-committee - 2025-08-09

Published 20 May 2022 Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Opening Up of International Organizations” that appears in the book "Beyond the Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics", edited by Christopher L. Pallas and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood, published by The University of Alabama Press. About the chapter: The opening up of international org

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anders-uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-international-organizations - 2025-08-09

Published 23 May 2022 The authors examine the relationship between single member versus multimember decision-making boards in regulatory agencies in the case of telecom, and how this relates to the spread of mobile and fixed broadband. Drawing on literature from economics and political science and statistical analysis of empirical evidence, they find that the best way of organizing such agencies d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/collegiality-and-efficiency-political-scientist-and-economist-provide-answer-looking-telecom - 2025-08-09

Published 3 June 2022 Daniel Møller Ølgaard and external reviewer Andrew Ross. Dissertation in Political Science, Lund University June 3 2022. Daniel Møller Ølgaard has successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘The Technopolitics of Compassion: A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism’, in which he critically examines aid organisations’ use of new digital medi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/daniel-moller-olgaard-has-successfully-defended-his-phd-thesis - 2025-08-09

Published 30 May 2022 Agnese Pacciardi has co-authored a research article on the the language of border externalisation processes by examining the episteme that stands as the basis of policy documents on the EU–Turkey agreement. The article shows how the knowledge produced through the documents has effects on both the mainstream discourse on migration and on the legitimisation of violent border ma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agnese-pacciardi-language-border-externalisation-eu-turkey-deal - 2025-08-09

Published 2 June 2022 Fabio Cristiano is celebrated by his supervisors Professor Karin Aggestam and Professor Annika Björkdahl. Fabio Cristiano has today defended his thesis The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond. External reviewer was Professor Anna Leander, Geneva Graduate Institute. Defending his thesis Fabio Cristiano, here with main su

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-has-successfully-defended-his-phd-thesis - 2025-08-09

Published 9 June 2022 Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen. Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen have edited a Special Issue on the theme "Agonistic Peace: Advancing Knowledge on Institutional Dynamics and Relational Transformation" in the journal Third World Quarterly. The Special Issue comprises empirical studies from a wide range of cases at local, national and global levels. The various articles use a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-and-bramsen-agonistic-peace-third-world-quarterly - 2025-08-09

Published 22 June 2022 Source: Wikimedia Thomas Hickmann in a new multi-authored open access article in Nature Sustainability co-led with Frank Biermann and Carole-Anne Sénit. Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals as the central normative framework for sustainable development worldwide

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/analysis-political-impact-sdgs - 2025-08-09

Published 23 June 2022 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have authored the article ‘The digital storytelling of feminist foreign policy: Sweden’s state feminism in digital diplomacy’ published Open Access in the European Journal of Politics and Gender The article interrogates the digital storytelling of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy. It analyses how digital platforms offer opportunities

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-hedling-swedens-state-feminism-digital-diplomacy - 2025-08-09

Published 16 August 2022 Karin Aggestam and Linda Eitrem Holmgren. Karin Aggestam and Linda Eitrem Holmgren have co-authored the article “The Gender-Resilience Nexus in Peacebuilding: The Quest for Sustainable Peace” as part of a Special Issue on gender, resilience and conflict in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for e

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-eitrem-holmgren-gender-resilience-nexus-peacebuilding - 2025-08-09

Published 16 August 2022 Johannes Lindvall and Katren Rogers have co-authored the article “The Changing Faces of the Modern State” published in Governance. The article describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective of ordinary citizens. Abstract This paper describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 20

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-and-rogers-changing-faces-modern-state - 2025-08-09

Published 1 September 2022 Three new publications at Oxford University Press. The research program Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) has published three books summarising its research. Research findings concern sources of legitimacy, processes of legitimation and delegitimation, and consequences of legitimacy crises in global governance.  Contributing authors from our Department are Magdale

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-books-legitimacy-global-governance - 2025-08-09

Published 6 September 2022 Hanna Bäck, Emma Renström and Royce Carroll have co-authored the article, ”Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization”, which is published in Frontiers in Political Science. Abstract: What makes people affectively polarized? Affective polarization is based on the idea that partisanship can be a social identity leading to p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-immigration-attitudes-and-affective-polarization - 2025-08-09

Published 8 September 2022 SIEPS Podcast goes on a lookout for the EU in the Swedish election campaign. But EU issues occupy a hidden place among the parties' positions. Why is that? To reflect on this, this section will be visited by Magnus Blomgren, associate professor of political science at Umeå University, and Maria Strömvik, senior lecturer in political science at Lund University. The next S

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stromvik-and-blomgren-election-and-eu-issues - 2025-08-09

Published 8 September 2022 Between 2015 and 2020 it became significantly harder to be granted sick insurance in Sweden. Altermark and Plesner examine the lived experiences for chronically ill people of losing financial support. They show that consequences often are drastic, as people experience economic crisis. This in turn gives rise to stress and uncertainty with regards to the future that often

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-and-plesner-how-welfare-cutbacks-condition-narratives-sickness - 2025-08-09

Published 13 September 2022 With Russia’s descent into imperial nostalgia, it is more important than ever to understand the separatist entities dotting the shared neighbourhood with the European Union. We need to learn whether these represent indigenous creations that support—or colonial dependencies that subvert—international principles of self-determination and noninterference. We arbitrate betw

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/understanding-separatist-entities-russias-near-abroad - 2025-08-09

Published 13 September 2022 Bergman and Davitti examine the future of human rights by looking at how ‘authoritarianism’, in its multifaceted forms and manifestations, intersects with existing discourses on climate change, environmental protection, populism and ‘gender deviance’. By adopting an intersectional lens they  interrogate the emergence of the right to a healthy environment and reflect on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-davitti-gender-climate-breakdown-and-human-rights - 2025-08-09