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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 - 2025-12-21

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 - 2025-12-21

Annika Björkdahl raises the critical question Where does peace take place? in the chapter Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies co-authored with Stefanie Kappler  Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-where-does-peace-take-place - 2025-12-21

”Expanding the Reach of the Special Forces with a Gender-Mixed Deep Development Capability (DDC): Identifying Challenges and Lessons Learned” This policy brief examines the development and implementation of a new gender mixed military capability within the Belgian Special Forces Group, including female soldiers in the operational detachment of the unit for the first time. Wilén examines the develo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-nina-wilen - 2025-12-21

Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the chapter “Gender and Peaceful Change” in the Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations. edited by T.V. Paul et al.  Link to the publication on oxfordhandbooks.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-gender-and-peaceful-change-international-relations - 2025-12-21

”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” Isabel Bramsen published a piece on ”To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence” in Journal of Resistance Studies. The study theorizes the micro-sociological dynamics of conflict and nonviolence as micro-sociological and discusses how nonviolent resistance can disrupt the rhythm and s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-situational-power-nonviolence - 2025-12-21

Annika Björkdahl recently published the chapter Urban Peacebuilding in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies that is applying the lens of the urban to rethink and rescale peacebuilding in post conflict societies. Link to the publication on doi.org Annika Björkdahl's personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-annika-bjorkdahl - 2025-12-21

Tomas Bergström is one of the editors of a new book published by Palgrave Macmillan on the challenges for local self-government in a number of european countries. "The Future of Local Self- Government. European Trends in Autonomy, Innovations and Central-Local Relations.” He contributes with a chapter on ”The future of local democracy. A somewhat dystopian view”. Link to the publication on springe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-local-self-government - 2025-12-21

Do governing parties strategically time welfare benefit cuts and other austerity policies to help them win elections? Hanna Bäck has, together with med Daniel Strobl, Wolfgang Müller and Mariyana Angelova analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of the Western European countries. You can read about their results in the article “Electoral Cycles in Government Policy Making: Strategic Timing

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-timing-austerity-reforms - 2025-12-21

Aube Tollu is now a doctor in sociology. The thesis offers a fresh perspective on studying armed group members. Aube Tollu’s research intervenes in criminological debates by moving beyond interpretations that portray individuals in armed political milieus solely as pathological. Instead, it develops a more differentiated account of their social realities. Drawing on crip theory and affect theory,

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/aube-tollu-doctor-sociology-after-successful-defence - 2025-12-21

The diversity of our research is reflected in our programmes and provides our students with an inspiring environment in which to develop. The Department of Sociology offers a wide and varied range of courses and programmes in our fields of sociology, social anthropology, gender studies and human resources, both on campus in Lund and online.All our courses and programmes can be found here on the we

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/time-apply-courses-and-programmes-starting-autumn - 2025-12-21

Congratulations all admitted students and welcome to the Department of Sociology! There are four international master's programmes at the Department of Sociology: Cultural Criminology (SACCR), Human Resources, Sociology (SASCO) and Social Anthropology (SASAN). We also collaborate with other departments on several master's programmes and one bachelor's programme in English.Do not miss important inf

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/admitted-one-our-international-masters-programmes-starting-autumn - 2025-12-21

Why do some people believe that most others can be trusted, while others don’t? And how does trust change over time? In his recently defended doctoral thesis, Alexander Saaranen studies social trust, and his findings show that our teenage years may be more important than previously thought. On Thursday 12 June Alexander Saaranen successfully defended his thesis “Trust in time” and is now a doctor

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexander-saaranens-thesis-uncovers-what-makes-us-trust - 2025-12-21

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, decision-makers around the world turned to predictive models and scenarios to navigate the unknown. But how did these projections shape—and sometimes mislead—strategies and public debate? In a newly published article in the journal Social Studies of Science, sociologist Tobias Olofsson explores how early pandemic predictions influenced policy and public discourse. T

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/can-flawed-predictions-still-guide-us-times-uncertainty - 2025-12-21

When researchers from three continents gathered at Lund University's Department of Sociology for the conference Crisis, Hope, and Critical Turning Points, the spotlight was on society’s capacity to navigate and recover from crises. Despite the gravity of the topics, the atmosphere was animated—filled with conversation, laughter, and spontaneous exchanges. With renowned scholar Sylvia Walby as keyn

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/crisis-hope-and-turning-points-international-researchers-gathered-lund - 2025-12-21

On Thursday, 4 September, the VIRTUTRIALS research team hosted their start-up seminar, welcoming 25 representatives from across Sweden’s legal landscape – including the Swedish Courts, Prosecution Authority, Swedish Bar Association, Prison and Probation Services, Victim Support Sweden, and more. The seminar marked the official launch of VIRTUTRIALS: The Elusive Role of Physicality – Towards a New

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/virtutrials-launch-seminar-brings-together-key-legal-stakeholders - 2025-12-21

What does working life look like for Swedish teenagers? A new doctoral thesis in sociology offers a unique insight into upper secondary school students’ experiences of working in low-wage service jobs – and how these jobs shape their self-understanding. Today, Friday 19 September, Anna Kallos successfully defended her doctoral thesis in sociology at the Socialhögskolan’s Gamla köket, just a stone’

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teenagers-work-anna-kallos-defends-doctoral-thesis-young-peoples-working-conditions - 2025-12-21

How can a plant shape knowledge, community, and activism? New doctoral thesis sheds light on cannabis activism and human–plant relations in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, Monday 29 September, Lucia Amaranta Thompson marks the successful defence of her doctoral thesis in Gender Studies at Lund University, presenting a unique ethnographic insight into the cannabis community in Buenos Aires, Argenti

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/exploring-cannabis-community-argentina-lucia-amaranta-thompson-defends-doctoral-thesis - 2025-12-21

On Friday 26 September, David Bazan Royuela successfully defended his doctoral thesis in sociology at the Eden Auditorium. The research offers new insights into how we interact with algorithms on platforms like TikTok. The thesis titled Algorithmic Interaction Ritual Chains on TikTok: Scrolling through Feedback Loops explores how every like, skip, or watch on TikTok sends signals to the platform’s

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/tiktok-algorithms-and-feedback-loops-new-thesis-david-bazan-royuela-explores-digital-interactions - 2025-12-21

Sociologist Mikael Klintman warns that some apps meant to reduce anxiety might actually increase it. In The Conversation, he explains how constant alerts and dramatic messages can make users more stressed, not less. In his book 'Framing – The Social Art of Influence', Mikael Klintman asks which kinds of signalling strike a chord with different audiences in particular situations like advertising an

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/stress-apps-can-make-you-more-anxious-research-shows-how-deal-it - 2025-12-21