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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fariborz Zelli and Ina Möller convened a workshop on ‘Theory and Methods of Institutional Complexity in Global Governance’ in Duisburg Germany, 30 November – 1 December 2017. Participants included leading international experts on this topic such as Kenneth Abbott, Lasse Gerrits, Jessica Green, Peter Haas, Philip Hayne
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tomas Bergström is stepping down as head of department after nine years at the helm, twelve if you count his time as assistant head of department. During his time as head of department, the department grew by 50 per cent, external funding tripled, internationalisation proceeded at record speed, English became the work
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/tomas-bergstrom-hands-over-growing-eden - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mats Fred will defend his dissertation "Projectification. The Trojan horse of local government" tomorrow on February 16 at 10:15 in Niagara, Malmö University. Discussant is professor Stig Montin from University of Gothenburg. Projectification. The Trojan horse of local governmentMats Fred’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mats-fred-defend-his-thesis - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Elsa Hedling’s and Douglas Brommesson’s article "Security through European integration or flexible autonomy: ambivalence in Sweden’s position on the Eastern Partnership” has been published in Global Affairs. In the article Hedling and Brommesson explore Sweden’s multiple roles in foreign policy in relation to its acti
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-and-brommesson-swedens-security-policy-ambivalence - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson have received funding from the Research Council Formas for the project "Putting a price on carbon emissions: what makes states adopt carbon pricing policies?". The project will answer the question which factors influence states to adopt carbon pricing policies (carbo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/grant-money-two-projects - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Douglas Brommesson has, together with Ann-Marie Ekengren, co-authored the chapter ”Homogenisation or fragmentation? Perceptions of mediatisation among Swedish and Finnish parliamenatrians” in the book ”Cartelisation Convergence or Increasing Similarities?”. Brommesson’s and Ekengren’s chapter is a part of a volume aim
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-cartel-party-theory-focus-swedish-party-system - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nina Wilén has, together with other researchers, co-authored two articles in Journal of Eastern African Studies. Wilén is also guest editor for the Special Collection together with David Ambrosetti and Jean-Nicholas Bach. The articles are ”Rwanda’s military as a people’s army: heroes at home and abroad” (written by Ni
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-two-articles-special-collection-african-militaries-peace-operations - 2026-04-29
Fabio Cristiano has contributed with the chapter “Bodies of Cyberwar: Violence and Knowledge beyond Corporeality” to the newly published volume ”Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence”. This international collection brings together accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity, and positionality within the process
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-cyberwar-and-violence - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have contributed the chapter ”Feminist Ethnographic Research: Excavating Narratives of Wartime Rape”, in the volume ”Ethnographic Peace Research”. This chapter analyzes women's narratives of war time rape in order to generate knowledge about women’s experiences of tran
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-war-time-rape - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond and Ted Svensson have both contributed with a book chapter to the edited volume ”The politics of identity: place, space and discourse”. Ted’s chapter centres on discrimination on the basis of caste in India and Annika’s text debates military intervention and the politics of memory in a Swedish
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-svensson-have-both-contributed-book-chapter-politics-identity - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck has, together with Emma Bäck and David Sivén, co-authored the article ”Why engage in collective action? The conditional effect of social support and efficacy on protest participation”, which was recently published in “Basic and Applied Social Psychology”. The article focuses on answering the question of why
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-protest-participation - 2026-04-29
Fabio Cristiano has authored the article “From Simulations to Simulacra of War: Game Scenarios in Cyberwar Exercises”, which is part of the latest issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. Abstract: This article explores the underlying culture of war sustaining the setting of scenarios within cyberwar games. In particular, it engages with the question of how to simulate a phenomenon that, d
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-cyberwar-and-simulations - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Michael Hansen has, together with Jennifer Clemens, co-authored the article "What to expect when you’re electing: the relationship between far-right strength and citizenship policy in Europe", which was recently published in "Comparative European Politics". The analysis builds on previous research exploring the impact
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-radical-rights-impact-citizenship-policy-europe - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsson have recently published their article ”Crafting the ’Well-Rounded Citizen’: Empowerment and the Government of Counterradicalization” in International Political Sociology. The study explores and critically discusses how preventative work against violent extremism has come to revolve
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-preventative-work-against-violent-extremism - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Michael Hansen has, together with Kathleen Dolan from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, co-authored the article "Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women’s Underrepresentation in Elected Office", which was recently published in "Political Research Quarterly". While scholars understand so
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-public-perceptions-womens-underrepresentation-elected-office - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Why are some governments more corrupt than others? Why do high-level officials in some countries seem to extract more rents than others? In the recently-published article “Cabinets, Prime Ministers, and Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Governments in Post-War Europe” Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell, toge
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/corruption-governments - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What different roles have municipalities had in the emerging processes of experimental governance - or governance through trials and urban living labs? This question is discussed in a new article by Annica Kronsell and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren. The article ”Experimental governance: the role of municipalities in urban li
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/experimental-governance - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There are studies that show that women and men are assessed and treated differently within academia. This is something Hanna Bäck, the new chair for the Swedish Research Council’s evaluation committee for political science, peace and conflict studies, and media and communication studies, want to change. Hanna Bäck has
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-chair-swedish-research-councils-evaluation-committee - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck has, together with Emma Bäck, Marie Gustafsson Sendén and Sverker Sikström, co-authored the article ”From I to We: Group Formation and Linguistic Adaption in an Online Xenophobic Forum”, which was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. The article focuses on processes of group ide
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-individuals-adapt-groups-online - 2026-04-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Women’s role in peace processes, and the political economy of gender-based violence in post-conflict societies. These are topics researched by one of the new honorary doctors in social sciences – the political scientist Jacqui True. Jacqui True is a professor of political science and international relations in the Sch
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-honorary-doctor-expert-women-peace-processes - 2026-04-29
