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‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics: Thinking with and beyond Giddens’ Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have recently edited a symposium with International Theory, entitled ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics’. The symposium also contains their introductory article: ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics: Thinking with and beyo
Daniel Möller Ölgaard has published a non-peer reviewed piece with E-IR, an open access International Relations journal online. Supplementing Naomi Klein’s concept of the Pandemic Shock Doctrine with a focus on the necropolitical dimensions of digital capitalism, this essay shows how the digital-capitalist logic relies on the exploitation of human bodies.Link to the publicationen on e-ir.info Dani
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reflections-naomi-kleins-pandemic-shock-doctrine - 2025-10-11
Anders Uhlin has, together with Håkan Johansson, edited a thematic issue on “Civil Society Elites” in the journal Politics and Governance. The volume includes among other articles Johansson’s and Uhlin’s editorial ”Civil Society Elites: A Research Agenda” and three articles stemming from the research project ”Civil Society Elites: New Perspectives on Civil Society in Cambodia and Indonesia” led by
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-thematic-issue-civil-society-elites-edited-anders-uhlin-and-hakan-johansson - 2025-10-11
Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson and Nora Stappert have published an article in the Journal of International Relations and Development. The article explores which groups global governance organisations target in their attempts at self-legitimation. The selection of such groups shows whose legitimacy beliefs matter to the organisation. The cases examined demonstrate that an organisation's assess
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-legitimacy-and-global-governance - 2025-10-11
After the 2018 election, it took 134 days for Sweden to get a new government. This government consisted of the same parties and had the same prime minister as the previous one. Why was that? And why did it take so long? Were our constitutional provisions regulating government formation to blame? This book answers these questions based on extensive interviews with the most important political actor
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-134-days-government-formations-process-after-2018-election - 2025-10-11
In this study, Jan Teorell together with colleagues attempt to reconcile competing positions in an important debate about the relationship between regime type and human development. First, the relationship is more likely to be perceived when democracy is measured in a nuanced fashion, taking account of gradations of democracy and autocracy. Second, some aspects of democracy – those associated with
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-and-human-development-issues-conceptualization-and-measurement - 2025-10-11
New article by Ole Elgström and Natalia Chaban The EU and Collaborative Diplomacy - Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban published the article A Perceptual Approach to EU Public Diplomacy: Investigating Collaborative Diplomacy in EU-Ukrainian Relations in the Hague Journal of Diplomacy 15:1Link to the publication on brill.comOle Elgström's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-and-collaborative-diplomacy - 2025-10-11
In this article Nina Wilén claims that the "added value” argument often turns into an "added burden". In this article Nina Wilén claims that the "added value” argument, used to increase female peacekeepers’ participation, often turns into an "added burden", which undermines gender equality & entrenches gender stereotypes.Link to the publication on academic.oup.com Nina Wilén's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilen-added-value - 2025-10-11
Catarina Kinnvall has, together with Pasko Kisić Merino and Tereza Capelos, published a chapter entitled ‘Getting inside ‘the head’ of the far right: Psychological responses to the socio-political context’. The article appears in Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice, edited by Stephen D. Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin and Aaron Winter, published by Routledge.Researching the Fa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-has-published-new-article - 2025-10-11
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modern states began to provide many of the public services we now take for granted. Inward Conquest presents the first comprehensive analysis of the political origins of modern public services during this period. Link to the publication on journals cambridge.org Johannes Lindvall´s personal page
New book by Mikael Sundström, published by Edward Elgar. From the introduction: I have something to say! It’s better to burn out than to fade away! The Kurgan (1986) quote from Highlander (movie) Most of us secretly yearn to make a mark on this world – to be lastingly remembered for some extraordinary feat. If you are reading this book you are presumably a would-be, soon-to-be or even actual acade
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-not-write-thesis-or-dissertation - 2025-10-11
Karin Aggestam has been appointed as Director for Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and coordinator of the strategic research area “Middle East in the Contemporary World". Why have you been appointed as new director and scientific research coordinator on the Middle East? From the start, I was part of the team that planned the new Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in 2007. Later I was also a
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-has-been-appointed-new-director-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-10-11
Nina Wilén’s article about how the ‘added value’ of female peacekeepers risks becoming an ‘added burden’ is now open access in International Affairs. In this article, Nina argues that discussions about female peacekeepers’ "added value" may increase gender inequality, due to the added burden that it places upon female peacekeepers - a burden which is not carried by their male counterparts and ther
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilens-latest-article-now-open-access-international-affairs - 2025-10-11
Catarina Kinnvall has recently published a book chapter entitled ‘Postcolonialism’ in the Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, edited by Didier Bigo, Thomas Diez, Evangelos Fanoulis, Ben Rosamond and Yannis A. Stivachtis and published with Routledge. This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and highlights em
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-catarina-kinnvall-postcolonialism - 2025-10-11
Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catarina Kinnvall have together with Chris Agius (Swinburne University, Australia) published the article ‘Populism, Ontological Insecurity and Gendered Nationalism: Masculinity, Climate Denial and Covid-19’ in the journal Politics, Religion and Ideology. The article proceeds from a critical analysis of gendered narratives of nationhood as manifested in far-right populi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-annika-bergman-rosamond-and-catarina-kinnvall - 2025-10-11
Christie Nicoson has recently published an article entitled 'Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach.' This paper calls for stronger consideration of positive conceptualizations of peace and of intersectionality and degrowth in pursuit of peace and resilience. Not only does climate change make planetary limitations more salient, but it also highlights rising inequa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-christie-nicoson - 2025-10-11
Johannes Lindvall and Carl Dahlström (University of Gothenburg) has contributed a report to the Danish parliament’s study Managing the Covid-19-Crisis The report, which deals with Sweden’s response to Covid-19, is published as Appendix 4 in the Danish study. An English-language summary is available. Link to the study at ft.dk Johannes Lindvall's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-contributes-danish-report-covid-19 - 2025-10-11
In an article entitled "Nordic Security and Defence Cooperation: Differentiated Integration in Uncertain Times" Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the development and nature of Nordic security and defence cooperation. The article is part of the thematic issue on "Rediscovering Nordic Cooperation" in the journal Politics and Governance. Link to the publication on cogitatiopress.com Rikard Bengtsson’s person
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-nordic-security-and-defence-cooperation - 2025-10-11
New article in "Foreign Policy Analysis" by Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores. In this study, Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell with colleagues engage in the debate about leadership and foreign policy outcomes by focusing on the tenure of foreign ministers. They ask why some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others. Using a unique data set on over 1
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/war-performance-and-survival-foreign-ministers - 2025-10-11
In a chapter on ‘European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis’, Ian Manners argues that economic, social, ecological, conflictual, and political crises of the EU are not separate, but part of the same planetary crisis. The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. This chapter brings two very
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-european-union-and-planetary-organic-crisis - 2025-10-11
