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The researchers Karl Holmberg and Sara Persson at the Department of Political Science have recently published an article based on a survey of Swedes' attitudes of regulation on plastics. The survey shows that the Swedish population in general is very positive about regulating plastics in various ways. Some differences are observed, for example, men and people with right-wing sympathies are slightl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedish-population-favor-regulation-plastics - 2026-09-03

During the last days of January, around 50 PhD students from four countries met to discuss the forest's past, present and future. A key insight was that ongoing research is far broader than how it’s often portrayed in the general forest debate. Participants from 10 universities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland went from large-scale to microscopic in discussions from the EU's forest policy to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forest-research-beyond-disciplines-navigating-forest-landscape - 2026-09-03

Elsa Hedling has authored the article ‘Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats’ recently published in Emotions and Society. The article analyses how diplomats perceive the demands of digital diplomacy and how emotions are engaged in their efforts to perform competently both online and offline. The findings suggest that the demands of digital diploma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-emotional-labour-digital-diplomacy - 2026-09-03

...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? –  Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas think about politics and development. It became particularly clear after Brexit that there's a lot we don't understand. For example, it's interesting, and some might say paradoxical, 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2026-09-03

Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. To the chapter “C

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2026-09-03

Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska just published a chapter in Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States about the democratic potential of politically and socially oriented civil society organizations in North Macedonia. Let us find out more – here are some questions to Milka: For someone who is not familiar with the subject, what is the current democratic situation in that region now

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2026-09-03

Professor Ian Manners, who is also due to be inaugurated as a professor tomorrow, teaches alongside Joel Abdelmoez on the course Political Cinéma. – Why Cinéma and not Cinema? –  The course is called political cinéma to remind us that ‘cinéma’ is both the production and projection of films. In 1895 the Lumière brothers first used the cinématographe motion picture system (a camera, projector, and f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ian-manners-lets-hear-little-about-new-course-political-cinema - 2026-09-03

The report published by EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance, and Democracy, argues that European Union challenges and crises of the past decade, including the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, refugees, ethno-nationalist/Brexit movements, COVID-19, and Russian invasion of Ukraine are part of a planetary organic crisis (POC) of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity. The recognition of the s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-achieving-european-communion-planetary-organic-crisis - 2026-09-03

This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-anna-meeuwisse-explore-transnational-anti-gender-networking-promoting-natural-family - 2026-09-03

Interest groups and political parties are the primary organizational carriers of citizens’ preferences into executive and legislative political institutions. Their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. We address this gap via an original cross-national survey of interest groups, which includes the self-placement of groups on the Left-Right and Gal-Tan dimens

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonathan-polk-and-co-authors-examine-positions-european-interest-groups-and-political-parties-two - 2026-09-03

Professor Ian Manners presents on ‘The External Dimensions of the European Union’s Autocracy Crisis’ to the Swedish EU Presidency Conference on 'The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions', Stockholm, 17 April. The conference is co-organized by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies; the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies; the Centre for European Research and the School of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-presents-external-dimensions-european-unions-autocracy-crisis-swedish-eu - 2026-09-03

Plastics and other petrochemicals are rapidly expanding. Academic and political attention has focused on the consumption of plastics, but in a new Open Access article with the journal Global Environmental Change, Jakob Skovgaard and his co-authors explore the financing of petrochemical production. A key finding is that public finance plays an important role in expanding petrochemical production gl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-co-authors-explore-financing-petrochemical-production - 2026-09-03

In their just published book, ‘Coalition Agreements as Control Devices - Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe’, Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck, and Svenja Krauss provide the first comprehensive content analysis of coalition agreements across a range of parliamentary democracies in Western and Eastern Europe. They show that coalition parties systematically use coalition agreements to contro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kluver-back-krauss-new-book-coalition-agreements-control-devices - 2026-09-03

In the article “Global Norm-Maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative”, Hyeyoon Park explores China’s normative role in global governance for sustainable mineral extractions. China became a key actor in the global supply chain of extractive resources (e.g., cobalt and lithium) - crucial part of green transition worldwide. Hyeyoon Park examines China’s role in glo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hyeyoon-park-explores-chinas-norm-making-role-global-extractives-governance - 2026-09-03

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the chapter ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” in the ”Handbook of feminist governance”, edited by Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J.     Read more about Handbook of Feminist Governance here on Edward Elgar Publishing's site. To Karin Aggestam's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-feminist-governance-foreign-policy - 2026-09-03

Catarina Kinnvall and co-author Pasko Kisić-Merino have recently published their article ‘Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy’ in Theory & Psychology, vol. 33, issue 2. Abstract This article is concerned with the psychological dimensions of deglobalization and white supremacy as related to fantasies of “whiteness.” The (re)construction of narratives and myths are contes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-kisic-merino-deglobalization-and-political-psychology-white-supremacy - 2026-09-03

Anders Uhlin has together with Soetkin Verhaegen written the article “Elites’ (De)legitimation Practices toward International Organizations” published in Global Studies Quarterly. Using unique survey data, the authors analyze how political and societal elites contribute to the legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations. Link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad02

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-elites-legitimation-and-delegitimation-international-organizations - 2026-09-03

Rädsla gästar Månteatern på Lunds Kulturnatt den 21 september kl 20.00. Föreställningen var en del av  teaterfestivalen "IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR" vid Teaterhögskolan i Malmö under våren 2024. Rädsla är skriven av dramatikern Nanna Berner och spelas upp av Emma Stocke, Tim Dillman och Alexej Antić. Familjen är dramatikens urämne. Relationen mellan föräldrar och barn, mellan syskon och nära vänner har

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/forestallningen-radsla-visas-under-lunds-kulturnatt - 2026-09-03

Nu har Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir spikat sin avhandling i enighet med den traditionella akademiska ceremonin. Många samlades i foajén på Teaterhögskolan i Malmö under tisdagen för att bevittna när Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir genomförde den traditionella akademiska ceremonin "spikning", och spikningen av den tjocka vita avhandlingen belönades med applåder från publiken. Avhandlingen har titeln "How li

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-spikar-sin-doktorsavhandling - 2026-09-03

 Under hösten är Teaterhögskolans skådespelarstudenter i årskurs 3 på praktik runtom i Sverige på några av de högst ansedda teaterscenerna i landet. Här kan du läsa var våra studenter befinner sig under sina praktiker.  Alexander GustavssonÖstgöta Teatern med uppsättningen Världens lataste pojke, i regi av Rikard Lekander.Alexandra SöderqvistÖrebro teater med uppsättningen Brott och Straff, i regi

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/skadespelarstudenter-pa-praktik-0 - 2026-09-03