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The article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors that are organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry. This industry links states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Employing concepts from organizational theory and the study of legitimation in global governance, the article identifies discursive, institutional, and behavioral self-legiti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2026-04-23

Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Political Psychology of Revisionist Behavior in World Politics: State Subjectivity, Ontological (In)Security, and Iranian Foreign Policy'. Congratulations Doctor Maysam! AbstractDriven by a core curiosity about the political psychology of change and change-seeking as opposed to continuity and status quo-keeping in world politics, this

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2026-04-23

Professor Ian Manners has received a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant to spend 2025 working at the University of Bristol to complete a book on The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The research book analyses the EU relations with the rest of the planet through from the end of the Cold War in 1990 until the end of the sabbatical in 2025.The focus is on five areas of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-manners-receives-riksbankens-jubileumsfond-sabbatical-grant-writing-book-european-unions - 2026-04-23

The journal Global Intellectual History has just published a forum on Jens Bartelson’s latest book Becoming International (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The forum has been edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen and features contributions by Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, Or Rosenboim, and Ayşe Zarakol. Here is the introduction:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forum-jens-bartelsons-becoming-international-global-intellectual-history - 2026-04-23

This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war.  From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, North America, Northe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-production-gendered-knowledge-war-women-and - 2026-04-23

This book explores how women in societies plagued by ethno-national conflict can help build peace and gender equality, even in places where deep divisions have existed for generations. It uses an approach called transversal politics to analyse how women from different communities in Northern Ireland work together across an ethno-national divide to build coalitions on shared values and common goals

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-linda-eitrem-holmgren-gender-just-political-citizenship-and-peacebuilding-northern-ireland - 2026-04-23

Malte Breiding Hansen and Maria Jansson (Örebro University) have authored the open-access article ”Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State” in the journal NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. The article asks whether articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of political agency have cha

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-and-jansson-gender-neoliberalism-and-swedish-welfare-state - 2026-04-23

Elsa Hedling has co-authored the book The Everyday Making of EU Foreign and Security Policy. Practices, Socialization and the Management of Dissent published Open Access by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book confronts why despite increasing levels of contestation on CFSP issues between EU member states, EU practitioners generally perceive their working environment as fully functional and even impro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-everyday-making-eu-foreign-and-security-policy - 2026-04-23

Johan Matz has published an article in Intelligence and National Security. This article approaches the intelligence dimension of Sweden’s arms exports by going back to three governmental decisions, taken in 1914, 1935 and 1971 respectively, all of which have been pivotal to both the Swedish government’s involvement in arms exports and the emergence of government institutions handling the intellige

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/johan-matz-arms-exports-and-intelligence-case-sweden - 2026-04-23

In a newly published article in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson analyse the appeal of far-right populist politics in the everyday and how this appeal is related to continuity and change in the global order. One of their key arguments is that while far-right populism is able to momentarily overwrite a sense of deep-felt anxiety among i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-dynamics-everyday-populism - 2026-04-23

In the chapter ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the EU’s own role self-conception as it appears in the EU Global Strategy from 2016 and problematizes how the changing international context in recent years yield new preconditions for the EU to act on the global stage. The chapter is part of a recently published volume entitled National Role Concept

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eus-role-self-conception-global-affairs - 2026-04-23

On March 9, 2022, a panel of Lund University experts considered: Why history matters to the invasion and conflict? What does the invasion mean for Putin’s Russia, Ukraine, and beyond? What is the impact of the invasion on Sweden, Europe, and the rest of the world? Watch the panel discussion ’The Russian invasion of Ukraine - why history matters and what will be the impact?‘ on our YouTube channel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/panel-experts-russian-invasion-ukraine - 2026-04-23

New article by Ted Svensson and Agnes Cornell on the introduction of merit reforms in nineteenth-century Britain and its possible colonial origins. In a newly published article in Governance, Ted Svensson (together with Agnes Cornell) explores whether the inspiration to reform the British Civil Service, along the lines suggested in the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan Report, was drawn from the introducti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-and-agnes-cornell-introduction-merit-reforms-nineteenth-century-britain - 2026-04-23

The article compares two approaches to transnational humanitarian recuperation that Italian organisations undertook in relation to children affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. The first approach was a home stay and the second – a camp stay. Using in-depth interviews with children and their parents from Belarus and Japan as well as NGO reports and media reports, the article s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/chronic-crisis-and-nuclear-disaster-humanitarianism-cases-chernobyl-and-fukushima - 2026-04-23

Isabel Bramsen has published the article, “Transformative diplomacy? Micro-sociological observations from the Philippine peace talks” in International Affairs”. The article investigates the dynamics and limits of face-to-face peace diplomacy based on direct observations from the Philippine peace talks. Link to the article in International Affairs.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-dynamics-and-limits-diplomacy-philippine-peace-talks - 2026-04-23

Niklas Altermark and Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska are co-authors of a new article on leadership training for civil society: Training leaders for the future? Leadership models for emerging and aspiring civil society leaders in Sweden and the UK This article aims to understand the prevalent leadership models in seven prominent leadership development programmes targeting emerging and aspiring civil soc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/more-top-down-management-swedish-leadership-programs-civil-society - 2026-04-23

Isabel Bramsen just published a PRIO case brief, “Controversies of Inclusion in the Colombian Peace Process: The Balancing Act of Introducing New Norms and Gaining Popular Support”, where she discusses the peace vs. inclusion dilemmas taking point of departure in the Colombian peace process. The question of justice versus peace has long been accepted as a core dilemma in peace studies and practice

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-controversies-regarding-inclusion-peace-processes - 2026-04-23

This article examines the emergence of a ‘migration industry’ as a result of European border externalisation and security outsourcing practices to curb migration flows from Libya. It argues that the management of migration has been partly delegated to a network of interlinked private and public actors which constitute a complex migration governance structure that ultimately gives rise to issues of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/pacciardi-and-berndtsson-emergence-migration-industry - 2026-04-23

Today Sarai-Anne Ikenze succesfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment: An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity’, in which she descriptively demonstrates significant continuity over time in terms of which sectors were prioritized and the policy approaches used to structure economic activity within those sectors in ten Sub-Saharan African countries between t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sarai-anne-ikenze-has-defended-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-04-23

In the recently published second edition of Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (editor Brian J.C. McKercher), Christer Jönsson contributes a chapter entitled ”Theorising Diplomacy” and Rikard Bengtsson a chapter on ”The European Union in International Relations: Great Power under Strain?”. More information can be found here, on Routledge's site.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-and-bengtsson-routledge-handbook-diplomacy-and-statecraft - 2026-04-23