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Independence referendums are often characterized by a polarized climate, with factions unable to agree on valence issues such as the economic consequences of independence. Are voters willing to update their beliefs in the face of new valence information? It depends, according to a new study authored by Gustav Agneman, published in the European Journal of Political Economy. In a representative surv

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/causal-link-between-economic-expectations-and-independence-preferences - 2025-10-13

The visiting professorship is hosted by the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Political Science. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, professor in political studies at University of Hull (United Kingdom) has been awarded the 2023 Olof Palme visiting professorship. During his time in Sweden, professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor will be active mainly at Lund University. About the visitin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/raphael-cohen-almagor-will-be-holder-2023-olof-palme-visiting-professorship - 2025-10-13

Elsa Hedling has co-authored the article ”Visual diplomacy in virtual summitry: status signalling during the coronavirus crisis”, together with August Danielson (Uppsala university). The article is published Open Access in the journal Review of International Studies. The article departs from the disruption that the transition to videoconferencing has had on the rituals and performances of summit d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-visual-diplomacy-virtual-summitry - 2025-10-13

Jonathan Polk and other principal investigators of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on Party Positioning have published a new article on the trend file, collecting six waves of the survey data between 1999-2019. The article examines stability and change in party positioning within the European Union, and stresses the increasingly strong relationship between parties’ cultural ideology and positions to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-party-positioning - 2025-10-13

Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the contribution “Peace and Feminist Foreign Policy” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies  (editors: Oliver Richmond and Gezim Visoka). Read the chapter on Springer Link’s website Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-peace-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-10-13

Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “Reforming fossil fuel subsidies requires a new approach to setting international commitments” in the journal One Earth. The article argues that international efforts to phase out fossil fuel subsidies can be strengthened by distinguishing between different subsidies, taking into account their climate impacts and the feasibility of reform. As the climate

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-commitments-reform-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-10-13

Nina Wilén and Lisa Strömbom have co-authored the article "A Versatile Organisation: Mapping the Military’s Core Roles in a Changing Security Environment" which was recently published open access in European Journal of International Security. The main contribution of the article is a comprehensive mapping and categorization of the military’s different roles and tasks in current industrialized demo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-and-strombom-militarys-core-roles - 2025-10-13

Karin Aggestam has authored the contribution “Third-party Intervention and International Monitoring in the City of Hebron” in the report “The Impact of Third-Party Mechanisms in Conflict Resolution: Lessons Learned from the Temporary International Presence in Hebron” published by the Norwegian Refugee Council. Karin’s contribution analyses the temporary international observer force, TIPH, that was

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-international-peace-monitoring-hebron - 2025-10-13

Jenny Lorentzen has published a new article in the Journal of Modern African Studies, about the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in Mali. By analysing vertical (between international and local actors) and horizontal (between local actors) friction, the article shows how interactions between different actors shapes the WPS agenda in the Malian context.  Read more on Camb

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lorentzen-women-peace-and-security-mali - 2025-10-13

Ekatherina Zhukova has published an article entitled “Postcolonial Logic and Silences in Strategic Narratives: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in Conflict-Affected States” in the journal Global Society. The article advances our understanding of acceptance and rejection of gender equality norms advocated by ethical foreign policies in marginalised states. The article contributes to the emerging wo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zhukova-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy-conflict-affected-states - 2025-10-13

Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö (Malmö University) are the editors of a special issue on power and evaluation. The special issue’s article is open access. Through an increasing demand for, and dependence on, various forms of evaluative practices in the public sector, the editors have seen the emergence of what has been called an audit and evaluation society. How these "societies", and practices asso

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-power-and-evaluation - 2025-10-13

Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Annick Wibben published the chapter “Feministiska institutioner? Utrikespolitik och nationellt försvar” (in English: Feminist Institutions? Foreign policy and national defense) in the edited collection Feministiska Perspectives on Global Politics (Studentlitteratur). The chapter is based on three adjacent research areas: feminist international relations, f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-women-peace-and-security-0 - 2025-10-13

Anders Uhlin has together with Håkan Johansson and Malin Arvidson published the article “Capital and Closure in the EU Field. Advancement in the European Economic and Social Committee” in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article explores what it takes to advance to the top of an EU institution (the European Economic and Social Committee). The article combines Bourdieu’s theories of field and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-career-advancement-eu-institution - 2025-10-13

Annika Fredén has together with Ludovic Rheault and Indridi H. Indridason co-authored the article ”Betting on the Underdog – The Influence of Social Networks on Vote Choice”, published in the journal Political Science Research and Methods. In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between local social networks and voting behavior, in the case where the voter chooses between a large

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/freden-influence-social-networks-vote-choice - 2025-10-13

Jana Wrange has published an article on the divergent interpretations of the concept of civil defence in Sweden. The article has been published in the journal European Security and is entitled ”Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence”.  Read more on the journal’s website Jana Wrange’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-civil-defence-sweden - 2025-10-13

Maiken Røed has published the article “When do political parties listen to interest groups?” in Party Politics. The article examines 88 Norwegian policy proposals and shows that parties often reuse input from interest groups. Characteristics relating to the proposals, interest groups, and parties affect parties’ propensity to listen. Read more on the journal’s website Maiken Røed’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-parties-propensity-listen-interest-groups - 2025-10-13

Professor Ian Manners, who is also due to be inaugurated as a professor tomorrow, teaches alongside Joel Abdelmoez on the course Political Cinéma. – Why Cinéma and not Cinema? –  The course is called political cinéma to remind us that ‘cinéma’ is both the production and projection of films. In 1895 the Lumière brothers first used the cinématographe motion picture system (a camera, projector, and f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ian-manners-lets-hear-little-about-new-course-political-cinema - 2025-10-13

The report published by EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance, and Democracy, argues that European Union challenges and crises of the past decade, including the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, refugees, ethno-nationalist/Brexit movements, COVID-19, and Russian invasion of Ukraine are part of a planetary organic crisis (POC) of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity. The recognition of the s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-achieving-european-communion-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-10-13

This article explores conservative Christian transnational advocacy, which defends what its leaders and supporters understand as the “natural family” against the perceived dangers of “gender ideology,” with a view to save Western civilization from imminent demise. We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-anna-meeuwisse-explore-transnational-anti-gender-networking-promoting-natural-family - 2025-10-13

Interest groups and political parties are the primary organizational carriers of citizens’ preferences into executive and legislative political institutions. Their combined effect for citizen representation has only recently come into focus. We address this gap via an original cross-national survey of interest groups, which includes the self-placement of groups on the Left-Right and Gal-Tan dimens

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonathan-polk-and-co-authors-examine-positions-european-interest-groups-and-political-parties-two - 2025-10-13