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Johan Matz has published the book ”Stalin’s Double-Edged Game: Soviet Bureaucracy and the Raoul Wallenberg case 1945-1952”. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish financier and trade executive turned diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary in 1944, was arrested in January 1945 by the Soviet military
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-johan-matz - 2025-10-11
Nina Wilén has together with Lindy Heinecken (Stellenbosch University) co-authored the article ”No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers” in the journal ”Armed Forces and Society”. We find that peacekeeping veterans experience the time away from the children, concerns over infidelity and too little institutional support as difficult challenges,
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-challenges-peacekeepers - 2025-10-11
Catarina Kinnvall has published a forum commentary entitled “Multiplicity, Discipline and the Political” in “New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations” (edited by Benjamin Tallis). This forum draws together scholars working in different ways and different settings to discuss how (and, indeed, whether) Multiplicity: can become more
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-publication - 2025-10-11
Jan Teorell has together with Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, co-authored the book ”Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). “Varieties of Democracy” is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-varieties-democracy - 2025-10-11
Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True are guest editors of a Special Issue on gender and foreign policy in the journal “Foreign Policy Analysis”. They have also co-authored the introductory article “Gendering Foreign Policy. Advancing a Comparative Framework for Analysis”. The Special Issue addresses the rise and resistance to pro-gender norms and feminist strategies in foreign policy and global politics
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-gender-and-foreign-policy - 2025-10-11
Roger Hildingsson has together with Oscar Svensson and Jamil Khan co-authored the article ”Studying Industrial Decarbonisation: Developing an Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Conditions for Transformation in Energy-Intensive Natural Resource-Based Industry”, which has been published in the journal ”Sustainability”. The article examines the potential of combining three different research fiel
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-industrial-decarbonisation - 2025-10-11
Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza, Jeff Hearn, Vasna Ramasar, Helle Rydstrom, published the article ”The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies” in the journal ”Global Discourse”. In this article Bergman Rosamond and her co-authors argue that our contemporary world is defined by the presence and claims of crisis – from climate change, financial and pol
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-crisis - 2025-10-11
Christer Jönsson has authored the article ”Revisiting the Problem of Credibility in the Age of Post-Truth”, which has been published in the journal ”International Negotiation”. Credibility is a central concept in negotiation theory. To make your messages credible is an essential part of persuasion. At the receiving end, you need to make credibility assessments of the messages coming from the other
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/credibility-problem-international-negotiations-and-digital-everyday-life - 2025-10-11
Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored the article “Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy and “Gender Cosmopolitanism”, which has been published in the journal ”Foreign Policy Analysis”. Gender justice and equality have risen to prominence in the constitution of foreign and security policy. In this article Bergman Rosamond locates the analysis of feminist foreign policy (FFP) within the wider context of S
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-10-11
Anthoula Malkopoulou has published an article on "Hermann Heller on politics: discipline, sphere and activity" in the journal “History of European Ideas”. The article examines how a leading German constitutional theorist in the 1920s envisioned the idea, practice and science of politics in terms of shared values and social cooperation. Malkopoulou finds that Hermann Heller understood politics as a
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/malkopoulou-concept-politics - 2025-10-11
Jan Teorell, Agnes Cornell and Carl Henrik Knutsen have co-authored the article "Bureaucracy and growth", which has been published in the journal ”Comparative Political Studies”. In this paper, Jan Teorell together with co-authors Agnes Cornell and Karl Henrik Knutsen, revisit the hypothesis that a Weberian bureaucracy enhances economic growth. Theoretically, there are good reasons to expect such
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-bureaucracy-and-growth - 2025-10-11
Martin Hall (2020) Seeing the Nomads Like a State: Sweden and the Sámi at the Turn of the Last Century, in Jamie Levin (ed) Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations: Before and After Borders, Palgrave McMillan. In modern history, states have typically attempted to eliminate nomadism. Perhaps uniquely, Sweden reinforced nomadism among some of its Sámi population. In this chapter, I argu
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/martin-hall-seeing-nomads-state - 2025-10-11
Sara Kalm has co-written an article with Anna Meeuwisse at the School of Social Work (LU), called ”For love and for life: emotional dynamics at the World Congress of Families”. It analyses the mobilisation of conservative transnational activism in the field of family policy, and it has recently been published in the journal Global Discourse. Länk till publikationen på ingentaconnect.com Sara Kalm
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/love-and-life-emotional-dynamics-world-congress-families - 2025-10-11
Sara Kalm has written an article called ”Citizenship Capital”, which has recently been published in the journal Global Society. This article examines the citizenship dimension of transnational inequalities. It is clear that some citizenships offer great advantages while others are liabilities for the individual, and the aim of this present article is to develop a conceptualisation of citizenship a
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-citizenship-dimension-transnational-inequalities - 2025-10-11
Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored the article 'Music, mining and colonisation: Sámi contestations of Sweden’s self narrative,’ published in a special issue on politics and music in the Danish political science journal Politik, Vol. 23:1, 2020. Sweden’s dominant self-narrative has tended to marginalise its historical colonisation of Sápmi. Indeed, there has been little emphasis on the historica
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-music-mining-and-colonisation - 2025-10-11
Malkopoulou has published two articles on how high voting turnouts improve political representation and help fight off right-wing populism. In ‘The Politics of Voter Presence’ (International Political Science Review), Malkopoulou and Hill draw on theories of political presence to defend the act of voting. In doing so, they shift the focus of such theories from the composition of legislatures to th
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/malkopoulou-value-electoral-participation - 2025-10-11
Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the chapter ‘Celebrities as Ethical Actors: Individuals and Cosmopolitan Obligation’ in The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations, edited by Birgit Schippers, 2020. This chapter offers an investigation into the cosmopolitan, privileged and self serving underpinnings of celebrity activists in their role as diplomats and humanitaria
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrities-ethical-actors-individuals-and-cosmopolitan-obligation - 2025-10-11
Ted Svensson has published an article in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. The article analyses recent public initiatives to memorialise the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states in terms of violent partitioning rather than as a successful act of independence from British imperialism. The twin focal points of the article are the Partition Museum in Amritsar and th
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/curating-partition-dissonant-heritage-and-indian-nation-building - 2025-10-11
Sindre Gade Viksand has published an article in the Review of International Studies. The article analyzes how peripheral actors in imperial structures are able to acquire external assistance for their independence struggles. This article builds a framework to better understand how these extra-imperial ties are translated into peripheral positional power. This framework is constructed on the basis
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contentious-colonies-positional-power-imperial-peripheries - 2025-10-11
John Gerring, Tore Wig, Wouter Veenendaal, Daniel Weitzel, Jan Teorell, & Kyosuke Kikuta have co-authored the article "The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type", Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming. In this paper, Jan Teorell together with co-authors propose an explanation for why monarchy was the dominant form of rule in the pre-modern era but then substantially declined in prevalence over the
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-why-monarchy-was-dominant-form-rule-pre-modern-era - 2025-10-11
