In the 2022 Swedish General Election, the Liberal party was in danger of not reaching parliamentary representation, but finally succeeded to make it to parliament. How opinion polls affect this kind of voting is the focus in a new publication by Annika Fredén together with colleagues at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, published in International Journal of Public Opinion Research (IJPOR)

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-strategic-voting-threshold-parties - 2025-09-05

Laura Landorff and Anders Uhlin have authored the article “Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? Exploring capital gains through boundary crossing”, recently published in European Politics and Society. Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? The article addr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/landorff-and-uhlin-economic-and-political-elites-eu-civil-society - 2025-09-05

Professor Ian Manners has just published the concluding article on ‘Political psychology of emotions in European Union foreign policy in times of ontological (in)security and crisis’ in a special issue of the Journal of European Integration edited by Seda Gürkan and  Özlem Terzi on The role of emotions in EU foreign policy.Professor Manners’ concluding article argues that understanding when and ho

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/concluding-article-special-issue-political-psychology-emotions-european-union-foreign-policy-times - 2025-09-05

Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard och doctoral student Evan Drake at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Despite 15 years of international commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, global subsidies reached a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a recent article for npj Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake and their co-authors call for a new approach that in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-approach-needed-address-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-09-05

I denna artikel studeras innovationsarbete i offentlig sektor och hur olika aktörer – kommuner, konsulter, akademiker, finansiärer och frivilligorganisationer - skapar och sprider gemensamma berättelser om en illa fungerande offentlig sektor i behov av att ”öppna upp” för nya typer av aktörer, tjänster och kunskap. Genom berättelserna kan vitt skilda aktörstyper (ex. riskkapitalister och NGOs) kny

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vilka-arbetar-innovation-i-offentlig-sektor-och-hur-gor-dom-det - 2025-09-05

This article examines public sector innovation and how different actors – municipalities, consultants, academics, financiers, and non-profit organizations – create and distribute stories about a poorly functioning public sector in need of "opening up" to new types of actors, services, and knowledge. Despite differences, the actors involved narrate their world similarly constituting coalitions that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/promoting-public-sector-innovation-who-does-what-when-and-how - 2025-09-05

Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen. Inclusion has become somewhat of a standard formula when trying to create political order in the transition from war to peace. But how does inclusion come into play in practice? In the article, Inclusivity in Practice: Patchworks of Inclusion at Multiple Tracks in the Colombian Peace Process, Bramsen and Strömbom investigate the inclusion/multi-track nexus in the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/inclusivity-practice-patchworks-inclusion-multiple-tracks-colombian-peace-process - 2025-09-05

Anna Wieslander and external reviewer Professor Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen, during the dissertation at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Anna Wieslander has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Transatlantic Transitions: Responses to the Russian Threat in the Baltic Sea Region, 2014–2020'. Congratulations! Dr. Anna Wieslander receives the Examination Board’s d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anna-wieslander-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-09-05

This chapter explores feminist activism during and after the so-called Arab Spring, a transformative event that brought new challenges and a new political environment for feminist activists. At first, the overthrow of old regimes raised hopes for a more open and liberated society, but these hopes did not last long. Feminist organizations in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia have faced state repr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/abdelmoez-digital-feminist-practice-during-and-after-arab-spring - 2025-09-05

Barbara Magalhães Teixeira on her dissertation and external reviewer Professor Jan Selby, University of Leeds. Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Nature of Peace and the Continuum of Violence in Environmental Conflicts'. Congratulations! AbstractIn this dissertation, I aim to explore the links between nature, conflict, and peace building on literature fro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/barbara-magalhaes-teixeira-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-09-05

Isabel Bramsen has published a new chapter on the role of emotions and emotional energy in conflict, repression and violence in The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations. AbstractEmotions play a significant role in shaping human interaction, not least in the context of conflict and violence. This chapter delves into the intricate interplay between emotional energy, protest, repres

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-role-emotions-and-emotional-energy-conflict-repression-and-violence - 2025-09-05

Professor Annika Björkdahl, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The book “Peace and the Politics of Memory”, Manchester University Press, co-authored with Johanna Mannergren, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler and Timothy Williams provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It does so by developing a th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-et-al-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-09-05

Visiting political scientists from the University of Denver discuss the upcoming U.S. election with students in a packed auditorium at Eden, moderated by Professor Jonathan Polk. On Thursday, the Eden auditorium was filled with students when the Department of Political Science was visited by researchers from the University of Denver to analyze and discuss the political situation ahead of the upcom

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-house-when-visiting-political-scientists-denver-discussed-upcoming-us-election - 2025-09-05

To what extent does moderation in ideological positioning by social democratic parties affect their short- and long-term electoral fortunes? This chapter builds on our prior work to further probe whether there is a link between moderation and individual voters’ shifts from social democratic parties at a later point, by considering a larger number of cases and by differentiating between the economi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-and-karreth-new-study-voter-responses-social-democratic-party-ideological-moderation - 2025-09-05

Guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students in the Eden auditorium. Brilliant guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students and an insightful and thought-provoking research seminar with Jason and Madubuko Diakité on popular culture, racism, world peace, democracy, agency, space and "exercising citizenship"! Thanks! Jason Diakité och Madubuko Diakité visiting

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jason-diakite-lu-honorary-doctor-and-madubuko-diakite-lu-raoul-wallenberg-institute-visited-eden-and - 2025-09-05

Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press. AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy. It first recounts how a po

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-time-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2025-09-05

Hello Ian Manners! Lund University has recently committed itself to student-centred education to improve the quality of learning and teaching on campus. Could you tell us more about the motivation behind this focus? – Certainly! Lund University aims to create a learning environment where students are at the heart of the educational process, and a crucial part of that is the implementation of activ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-active-learning-social-science - 2025-09-05

Lisa Strömbom, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political Science. Photo: Johan Persson. Lisa Strömbom, together with Gustav Agneman (LU and Trondheim University) and Angelica Rettberg (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá), has published the article “Do Apologies Promote the Reintegration of former combatants? Lessons from a Video Experiment in Colombia” in Journal of Peace Research. The a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-agneman-och-rettberg-journal-peace-research-apologies-and-reintegration-former-combatants - 2025-09-05

Associate Professors Isabel Bramsen and Lisa Strömbom, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Isabel Bramsen, Lisa Strömbom, and Kasia Jezierska have received funding for the project "The United Nations as a Platform Enabling Agonistic Contestation and Engagement? (UNPEACE)" to analyse the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly meetings about Israel-Palestine since 1948, i.a.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/isabel-bramsen-lisa-strombom-and-kasia-jezierska-have-been-granted-funding-swedish-research-council - 2025-09-05

Här kan du se våra studenter i höst! Alexandra NordbergGöteborgs Stadsteater, Utvandrarna, regi Pontus Stenshäll, premiär 8/9http://www.stadsteatern.goteborg.se/pa-scen/2017-2018/utvandrarna/Jasser Al-Faisal HeitatMalmö Stadsteater, Det svarta vattnet, regi Martin Rosengardten, premiär 15/9https://www.malmostadsteater.se/det-svarta-vattnetHelmon SolomonFolkteatern Göteborg, Den goda människan i Se

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/praktik-2017 - 2025-09-05