Published 5 December 2024 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). Dep

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eu-and-european-security-order - 2025-06-15

Published 6 December 2024 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 d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/patrick-nitzschner-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-06-15

Published 10 December 2024 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-et-al-beyond-growth-response-worlds-water-crises - 2025-06-15

By alva [dot] martensson [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Alva Mårtensson) - published 12 December 2024 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 vo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/affective-polarization-populism-and-european-party-support-ukraine - 2025-06-15

Published 16 December 2024 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 iss

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/matter-pre-training-political-studies-more-data-better-domain-specific-new-study-shows - 2025-06-15

Published 13 January 2025 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 departme

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peace-talks-russia-ukraine-war-when-who-and-how - 2025-06-15

Published 21 January 2025 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,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-how-imf-addresses-climate-change - 2025-06-15

Published 23 January 2025 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 owner

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/danish-business-owners-more-critical-democratic-institutions-their-swedish-counterparts-during-covid - 2025-06-15

Published 29 January 2025 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 reve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/do-political-parties-western-europe-listen-their-voters - 2025-06-15

Published 28 January 2025 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 - 2025-06-15

Published 10 February 2025 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 speci

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rethinking-international-relations-russian-war-against-ukraine-and-shift-planetary-politics - 2025-06-15

Published 20 February 2025 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2025-06-15

Published 24 February 2025 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 curio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-06-15

Published 3 March 2025 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 foc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-manners-receives-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatical-grant-writing-book-european-unions - 2025-06-15

Published 5 March 2025 The journal Global Intellectual History has just published a forum on Jens Bartelson’s latest book Becoming International (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The forum has been edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen and features contributions by Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, Or Rosenboim, and Ayşe Zarakol. Here is the introduction:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forum-jens-bartelsons-becoming-international-global-intellectual-history - 2025-06-15

Published 10 March 2025 This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war.  From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-production-gendered-knowledge-war-women-and - 2025-06-15

Published 20 March 2025 This book explores how women in societies plagued by ethno-national conflict can help build peace and gender equality, even in places where deep divisions have existed for generations. It uses an approach called transversal politics to analyse how women from different communities in Northern Ireland work together across an ethno-national divide to build coalitions on shared

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-linda-eitrem-holmgren-gender-just-political-citizenship-and-peacebuilding-northern-ireland - 2025-06-15

Av erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - publicerad 3 oktober 2023 Bild: iStock/NoSystem images Både svensk och internationell lag står bakom kvinnors rätt att amma på offentlig plats. Ändå beskriver kvinnor hur de får ta emot påhopp och dömande blickar när de ammar utanför hemmet. En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar att samhället måste ge tydligare och uttal

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/att-amma-pa-offentlig-plats - 2025-06-16

Av petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - publicerad 5 oktober 2023 Precisionsmedicin inom diabetes innebär bland annat att behandlingen av sjukdomen och dess komplikationer kan bli mer träffsäker. En internationell konsensusrapport sammanfattar hur långt forskningsfältet har kommit. Foto: iStock/Maya23K En internationell konsensusrapport om precisionsmedicin inom diabetes

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-rapport-mojligheter-och-utmaningar-precisionsmedicin-inom-diabetes - 2025-06-16

Av tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - publicerad 9 oktober 2023 Forskaren och läkaren Moa Wolff undersöker i en ny studie hur vanligt det är med järnbrist bland dagens tjejer i gymnasieåldern. Nyligen inleddes en studie bland gymnasietjejer i Lund och Malmö. Det är forskaren och läkaren Moa Wolff som vill undersöka hur vanligt det är att järnbrist leder till hjärnbrist. Var

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/moa-wolff-forskar-pa-jarnbrist-bland-gymnasietjejer - 2025-06-16