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Ian Manners has edited the twentieth anniversary special issue on ‘Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis', published September 2025. This twentieth anniversary special issue broadens the horizons beyond the 2013 Cooperation and Conflict special issue to develop the normative power approach through a prospective on the use of normative power in addressing the planetary organic crisis. The

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-editor-special-issue-cooperation-and-conflict-normative-power-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-11-10

Are you looking for a user-friendly overview of the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This open access book is the answer! Since the launch in 2015, the 17 SDGs have shown limited progress. Still, it is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 and beyond. This book starts with an introduction to contextualize the status of the SDGs,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-know-about-sdgs-new-book-reinforces-case-sustainable-development - 2025-11-10

In a new open-access article with the journal Earth System Governance, Jakob Skovgaard and Hyeyoon Park (previously the Department of Political Science, LU, now University of Stirling) analyze how global green finance governance institutions frame climate risks. Based on a mapping of 74 institutions, the article shows that the dominant framing emphasizes climate risks to business actors, while ris

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-park-climate-risk-framing-global-green-finance-governance - 2025-11-10

How do market ideas become institutionalized in the world's largest and oldest one-party state? In a new open access article with the journal Environmental Politics, Jesper Svensson and co-authors answers this question. They show how political entrepreneurs embedded water trading in China by drawing on ideological principles – including politics at the centre, ideological pragmatism, and economic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-hands-multiple-fingerprints-how-ideology-and-politics-shaped-chinas-water-market-reforms-1998 - 2025-11-10

Evan Drake has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'From Lock-In to Phase-Out: Pathways Towards Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform'. Congratulations to Dr. Drake! External reviewer: Professor Andreas Duit, Stockholm universitySupervisors:Jakob Skovgaard, SupervisorHanna Bäck, Assistant supervisorMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research PortalAbstractThis dissert

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/evan-drake-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-10

In the article, Johannes Stripple, Karl Holmberg and co-authors examine how the negotiations of a global plastics agreement are characterised by differing priorities between countries. Divided into four clusters, the authors show how certain states are pushing for ambitious rules that limit plastics production, as they want to tackle the underlying problem in a more ambitious way. Other delegation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/road-global-plastics-agreement-conflicting-political-and-economic-interests - 2025-11-10

Today, we gathered in the Department’s skybar to hear five inspiring mini-presentations showcasing these exciting new publications. The books span a wide range of timely and important topics, including: A comprehensive and user-friendly A–Z guide to key concepts and terms in the global effort to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, offering practical examples and insights into political an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lets-celebrate-our-colleagues-remarkable-achievements-five-new-books-hot-press - 2025-11-10

Sweden’s feminist foreign policy (FFP), launched in 2014, positioned the country as a global leader on gender equality. But how has Sweden’s image changed since the policy was rescinded in 2022? In a new article published in Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström explore how EU member state officials perceive Sweden’s role in promoting gender equality—during a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/normative-leadership-weakened-elgstrom-rosen-sundstrom-fall-ffp - 2025-11-10

During the week, the appreciated negotiation and role-play was once again carried out within the course European Governance, a central part of the first semester of the Masters in European Affairs (MEA) programme at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. In this year's edition, master's students in roles such as heads of state or government, ministers, MEPs and EU commissioners gath

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/successful-eu-role-play-engaged-masters-students-lund - 2025-11-10

In a new article published in Cooperation and Conflict Roxanna Sjöstedt, together with Erik Noreen (Uppsala University), examines the dynamics of so-called pluralistic security communities in relation to the management of external threats. Focusing on the Nordic states in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic and the geopolitical tensions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the articles finds that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/securitization-security-community-cooperation-and-conflict-nordic - 2025-11-10

Ted Svensson has co-authored a forum in Cooperation and Conflict which honors Jens Bartelson and critically discusses his contribution to the Nordic study of international relations during the past 30 years. Forum: On Jens/Becoming Bartelson - Halvard Leira, Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Maria Birnbaum, Peter Haldén, Ted Svensson, Oliver Kessler, 2025Jens Bartelson | Department of Political ScienceTed Sve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-and-others-honour-jens-bartelson-cooperation-and-conflict - 2025-11-10

Fariborz Zelli organises an official side-event for Lund University at the UN Climate Conference in Belém, Brazil (10-21 November). The event focuses on unsung heroes of climate action: local and indigenous communities and the considerable neglect which their climate action, and the violence against them, have been receiving in UN climate negotiations.The event is an initiative of the Formas-funde

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fariborz-zelli-organises-official-side-event-lund-university-un-climate-conference-belem - 2025-11-10

Agnese Pacciardi has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Mobility as a Practice: Border Externalisation and Colonial Encounters at the Euro-Senegalese Borderlands'. Congratulations to Dr. Pacciardi! External reviewer: Associate Professor Joris Schapendonk, Radboud UniversitySupervisors:Annika Björkdahl, Lunds universitetAnders Uhlin, Lunds universitetSarah Scuzzarello, University of SussexM

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agnese-pacciardi-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-11-10

In a new article, published in Cooperation and Conflict, Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström investigate the development policies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and their changing roles and priorities from the start of Nordic aid programmes, though with a focus on developments and trends in the last 15 years. The Nordic countries have been described as generous front-runners in their d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nordics-and-development-assistance-still-leaders-less-exceptional - 2025-11-10

Johanna Mannergren and Annika Björkdahl have co-authored the article “Knowledge Production on Women’s Experiences of Conflict: A Critical Analysis of the WPS Agenda” for a special issue celebrating the 25th anniversary of the UN resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. The article explores The Women, Peace and Security agenda as a knowledge system, an episteme, that over a quarter century has

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mannergren-bjorkdahl-critical-analysis-wps-agenda - 2025-11-10

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Helding have authored the article “Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy” (in Swedish) in a special issue of the Norwegian Journal Internasjonal Politikk. Read the article here: https://tidsskriftet-ip.no/index.php/intpol/article/view/7218Read the special issue here: https://tidsskriftet-ip.no/index.php/intpolKarin Aggestam’s websit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-feminist-foreign-policy-and-digital-diplomacy - 2025-11-10

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2025-11-10

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2025-11-10

Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This is an excellent opportunity for students who are interested in comparative politi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2025-11-10

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2025-11-10