NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Hanna Bäck has co-authored the article "Partisanship, Ministers, and Biotechnology Policy" (with Marc Debus and Jale Tosun), which has been published in the journal Review of Policy Research. Learn more. Hanna BäckAbstractResearch in public policy and political economy has provided many insights in the evolution of public resistance against genetically modified organisms

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/chances-biotech-ban-increase-christian-democrats-government - 2025-09-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article ”A Quality of Government Peace? Explaining the Onset of Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1985–2001” in the journal International Interactions: Empirical and Theoretical Research in International Relations. AbstractThat democracies do not wage wars against each other is one of the most widely accepted claims within the study of interna

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/quality-government-well-influence-democracy-prevents-war - 2025-09-09

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Erik Ringmar is giving a public lecture at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm on the topic of ''Liberal Barbarism'' Shock and Awe in History and Today." The public lecture will be held on 29th September 2015.For more information and to register go to ui.se Erik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmar-speaks-about-liberal-barbarism - 2025-09-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter "The Kingdom of Denmark and the Arctic" in the edited collection Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic (Leif Christian Jensen and Geir Hønneland, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, editors), published by Edward Edgar Publishing. More information about the book on www.e-elgar.comThe official online ebook version PDF poster An

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-denmark-and-arctic - 2025-09-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam, Fabio Cristiano and Lisa Strömbom have written the article "Towards agonistic peacebuilding? Exploring the antagonism- agonism nexus in the Middle East Peace Process "published in Third World Quarterly. Abstract:Many contemporary conflicts are framed as antagonistic and difficult to resolve because of their zero-sum framing among the disputants. This artic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-cristiano-and-strombom-about-agonistic-peacebuilding - 2025-09-09

STUDENT NEWS: To better understand how the politics of climate change play out across the social realm, a new research methodology has been developed called the Low Carbon Mobile Lab. City planner Christian Wilke, took students from the Bachelor course ‘The Politics of Climate Change’ on three hour “Future Walk”- from the Bulls on the hill to Max IV and ESS and into the empty fields. Lecturers Rog

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/students-three-hour-future-walk-see-politics-are-everywhere - 2025-09-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter "Civil Society and Policy Reforms in the Asian Development Bank” in Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks, edited by Susan Park and Jonathan Strand, published by Routledge. Anders UhlinAbout the book on routledge.com 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-new-book-multilateral-development-banks - 2025-09-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Hanna Bäck and Niklas Altermark are co-applicants in a project, together with Emma Bäck (Gothenburg University), which has been granted 4 million (SEK) from FORTE. The project is titled ”The Political Psychology of Radicalization” and aims to study the psychological mechanisms leading an individual to become radicalized, and investigate how the current state action plan a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/4-million-project-radicalization - 2025-09-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has, together with Sarah Delputte, a post-doc at the University of Ghent, written the article ”An end to Nordic Exceptionalism? Europeanisation and Nordic development policies”, for European Politics and Society, now published online and to appear in the journal’s printed version later this year. The article will be part of a special issue, edited by Maurizio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-eus-influence-development-policies - 2025-09-09

More than 2 250 participants have signed up for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Climate Change: a question of justice?" run by Hagen University in collaboration with Department of Political Science at Lund University. Dr. Angela Oels, visiting professor in the Department of Political Science, says it is not too late to join the course. The first nine lectures out of 34 are now online. More

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mooc-reaches-over-2000-participants - 2025-09-09

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Erik Ringmar gave the lecture "The Theater of Hypnosis and the Hypnosis of Theater" at the Malmö Theatre Academy on Thursday, October 8, 2015. Ringmar discussed the question of suggestibility. It has long been observed that people, especially when they find themselves the members of crowds, are easily manipulated. This power over people’s minds has sometimes been compared to t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/theater-hypnosis-and-hypnosis-theater - 2025-09-09

Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call +46 46-222 07 00 from 8 am Monda

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-12-october - 2025-09-09

A decision to reopen Lund University was taken in the afternoon of Monday 12 October following the closure that has been in force since Sunday night. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morning. The decision is based on new information from the Region Syd police. Investigations have revealed that the threat directed at Lund University posted on the Jodel app was not a uniqu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-reopens-tuesday - 2025-09-09

INAUGURATION OF NEW PROFESSORS: Hanna Bäck has been promoted to full professor at the department and will take part in the inauguration ceremony today (16th October). Hanna Bäcks personal pageLearn more about the new professors (PDF) In Lund, the inauguration of new professors is a public ceremony presided by the vice-chancellor. At least one such ceremony is held each semester, in which the new p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-professor - 2025-09-09

Our researchers Annica Kronsell (project leader) and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren are co-applicants in a project which has been granted 5 million (SEK) from VINNOVA. The project aims to study how different institutional frameworks, e.g. urban development and individuals’ habits, influence how people transport themselves in their daily life. The ambition is to build new knowledge that will result in that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/5-million-vinnova-research-project - 2025-09-09

Hanna Bäck is one of three researchers who has received 6 million SEK in infrastructure funds for the RJ-infrastructure project "Party Government in Europe Database". The project will be located in Umeå where Professor Johan Hellström will lead the project together with Professor Torbjörn Bergman, but the project will also be linked to Lund University through Professor Hanna Bäck.Riksbankens Jubil

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/6-million-sek-project-infrastructure - 2025-09-09

Magdalena Bexell, Catia Gregoratti, Kristina Jönsson, Anders Uhlin and Fariborz Zelli are part of a research programme led by Professor Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University, which has been awarded over 35 million SEK by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). The research project “Legitimacy in Global Governance” led by Professor Jonas Tallberg, the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/35-million-sek-project-legitimacy-global-governance - 2025-09-09

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: The recently concluded research programme Transdemos- Democracy Beyond the Nation State? has published a final report for Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). "Democracy Beyond the Nation State? Transnational Actors and Global Governance", abbreviated “Transdemos”, was a political science research programme with participants from Lund and Stockholm University, which ran from 2

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/transdemos-difficulties-democracy-beyond-nation-state - 2025-09-09

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Erik Ringmar is presenting a paper on "Heidegger on Attention and the Moods of Modernity" at a workshop at Sussex University, Brighton, on 29th October. More information on: heideggerandtheglobal.wordpress.comErik RingmarThe workshop will bring together a range of scholars from International Relations, political and social theory, philosophy and human geography in order to dev

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rigmar-speaks-about-modernity-sussex - 2025-09-09

Sara Kalm has reviewed Antoine Pécoud’s Depoliticising Migration: Global Governance and International Migration Narratives (Palgrave, 2015). The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of migration governance, by exposing the ways in which international organizations tend to ”depoliticize” and neutralize the issue of migration.The review is published in European Journal of Development Rese

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-review-looks-study-migration-governance - 2025-09-09