Den 2 december, tillkännagav Financial Times (FT) årets så kallade FT European Business School Rankings 2024. Inte nog med att Ekonomihögskolan finns med på listan, vi har även klättrat två steg från fjolårets placering på plats 70 till plats 68. Att alls vara med på listan är mycket prestigefullt: Endast 100 av över 400 ekonomihögskolor i Europa finns med. Styrka och hårt arbeteUlrika Wennersten,

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/allt-hogre-ekonomihogskolan-klattrar-i-financial-times-rankning - 2025-08-31

Vi var väldigt förväntansfulla inför resan till London, man hör ofta att London leder utvecklingen av miljözoner i Europa tack vare sina omfattande, strikta och ambitiösa policyer för att minska utsläpp och förbättra luftkvaliteten. Stadens Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) är en av de mest omfattande i världen och täcker hela stor London sedan augusti 2023. Zonen mäter 1 500 km² och omfattar ca nio

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/framtidens-stadslogistik-inspiration-fran-londons-grona-omstallning - 2025-08-31

COP29 arrangerades i november i Baku, Azerbajdzjan. Foto: iStock På COP29, FN:s klimatkonferens, deltog en av Ekonomihögskolans alumner och vi fick en inblick i arbetet inför och under detta globala klimatmöte. FN:s klimatkonferenser hålls varje år och är världens enda multilaterala beslutsforum för klimatfrågor som samlar nästan alla världens länder. COP29 arrangerades i november i Baku, Azerbajd

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/alumn-modererade-vid-fns-arliga-klimatkonferens - 2025-08-31

This article explores legitimation attempts by global multistakeholder partnerships that seek to support implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. This generation of global partnerships faces strong expectations on obtaining synergies between policy fields and between the actors involved. We examine self-legitimation in a comparative study of two partnerships aiming t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-legitimacy-challenges-multistakeholder-partnerships-2030-agenda - 2025-08-31

Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Polk, who has secured a prestigious grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for his project, "Political Party Competition and the Transnational Cleavage in Europe." This groundbreaking work aims to shed light on the evolving political landscape and its implications for Europe’s future. SummaryPolitical Party Competition and the Transnational Cleavage in Euro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/major-research-grant-awarded-professor-jonathan-polk-exploring-political-party-dynamics-europe - 2025-08-31

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have edited the book “Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis: A New Subfield” (Bristol University Press). How can feminist scholarship advance the field of foreign policy analysis to better understand contemporary foreign policy actions and challenges? This groundbreaking book provides the state-of-the-art in the study of gender, feminisms and foreign policy. Bringing toge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-karin-aggestam-and-jacqui-true-feminist-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-08-31

Rikard Bengtsson recently published a chapter entitled “Complex Role Enactment Amid Global Value Contestation: The European Union and the Crisis of the European Security Order” in the volume International Organizations Amid Global Crisis. Analysing Role Selection and Impact through Role Theory, edited by Diana Panke and Gordon M. Friedrichs (Bristol University Press). Departing from existing role

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eu-and-european-security-order - 2025-08-31

Patrick Nitzschner on his dissertation and external reviewer Professor Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin. Patrick Nitzschner has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Defending what is yet to come: Towards a critical theory of democratic defense'. Congratulations! AbstractCertainty about the robustness of democracy has given way to a widely diagnosed crisis of democracy. There are increa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/patrick-nitzschner-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-08-31

The world is facing several crises in terms of water quality, quantity, and safety. Policy measures to date focus on a 'business as usual' approach that prioritises economic and/or green growth. But measures that prioritize growth largely fail. A group of some of the world's most prominent water scientists highlights the crucial role that policy capture has played. They call for measures that are

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-et-al-beyond-growth-response-worlds-water-crises - 2025-08-31

Alexander Ryan and Jonathan Polk. Hatred towards political opponents can be more polarizing than policy differences – and populism is shaping the erosion of support for Ukraine in the war against Russia. Professor Jonathan Polk and Dr. Alexander Ryan delivered a lecture in December on what divides voters and parties in Europe. What is affective polarization, and why does it matter? Alexander Ryan,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/affective-polarization-populism-and-european-party-support-ukraine - 2025-08-31

In this study we elaborate the trade-off between pre-training models on domain-specific data versus a more general dataset in a political context. We start from motions from parliamentarians in the Swedish Riksdag, and focus on the two competitors for government office parties: Social Democrats and Moderates. Elaborating word embeddings on central keywords related to issues and ideology based on v

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/matter-pre-training-political-studies-more-data-better-domain-specific-new-study-shows - 2025-08-31

Isak Svensson, Uppsala University and Isabel Bramsen, Lund University. ❔ Who is best positioned for mediation and negotiation efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine? ❔ When should such diplomatic efforts be launched? ❔ How should the processes of peace talks be designed? These are some of the questions examined in a new article by Isabel Bramsen from our department and Isak Svensson from

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peace-talks-russia-ukraine-war-when-who-and-how - 2025-08-31

In a new open-access article published in Review of International Studies, Jakob Skovgaard explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has integrated climate risks into its surveillance of countries’ economies and policies. This integration involves reframing climate as an economic issue and assessing countries' actions to address: Physical risks of climate change, Transition risks from pha

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-how-imf-addresses-climate-change - 2025-08-31

Associate Professor Julie Hassing Nielsen's and Associate Professor Agustin Goenaga's findings indicate that exposure to the economic costs of pandemic strategies was not only associated with more critical views towards public health measures, but that it also made citizens more likely to see them as violations to democratic rights. Popular science summary: Business owners in Denmark, experiencing

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/danish-business-owners-more-critical-democratic-institutions-their-swedish-counterparts-during-covid - 2025-08-31

Political parties in Western Europe are more responsive to voters than you might think. Across seven key political issues, Ibenskas and Polk found that parties adjust their positions to better match public opinion. Hypothetical example of responsiveness. Using data from the Chapel Hill Expert Surveys, European Social Survey, and the European Election Study, the study reveals that parties listen to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/do-political-parties-western-europe-listen-their-voters - 2025-08-31

Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-suggestion-of-clearing-out-gaza-adds-another-risk-to-an-already-fragile-ceasefire-248334Karin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-conversation-karin-aggestam-about-fragile-ceasefire-gaza-and-future-diplomatic - 2025-08-31

How should the Russian war against Ukraine reshape the way we teach International Relations (IR) and European Union (EU) studies? In a groundbreaking new article, Professor Ian Manners argues that Ukraine serves as a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift—one that moves beyond traditional IR frameworks to embrace planetary politics. Published as the lead article in a special issue of the Journal of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rethinking-international-relations-russian-war-against-ukraine-and-shift-planetary-politics - 2025-08-31

Associate Professor Magdalena Bexell, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors that are organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry. This industry links states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Employing concepts from organizational theory and the study of legitimation in global

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2025-08-31

External Reviewer Associate Professor Marco Viera, University of Birmingham and now Doctor Maysam Behravesh. Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Political Psychology of Revisionist Behavior in World Politics: State Subjectivity, Ontological (In)Security, and Iranian Foreign Policy'. Congratulations Doctor Maysam! AbstractDriven by a core curiosity about the political ps

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-08-31

Professor Ian Manners has received a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant to spend 2025 working at the University of Bristol to complete a book on The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The research book analyses the EU relations with the rest of the planet through from the end of the Cold War in 1990 until the end of the sabbatical in 2025.The focus is on five areas of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-manners-receives-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatical-grant-writing-book-european-unions - 2025-08-31