Published 5 December 2022 Whether, to what extent, and how will global goal-setting for sustainable development be effective? A new openaccess study in Sustainable Development draws lessons from the MDGs for SDG implementation. The millennium development goals (MDGs) were an important precursor to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Hence, identifying the conditions that made the MDGs succes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hickmann-et-al-success-factors-global-goal-setting-sustainable-development - 2025-06-17

Published 12 December 2022 Valdemar Holt, Department of Political Science at Lund University, has written the essay "Alienation suspected". The essay examines – based on party leader debates in the Riksdag – the Social Democrats' and Moderaterna's views on the concept of exclusion between 2010 and 2022. From the prize committee's motivation: The essay contains an impressive qualitative analysis of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/valdemar-holt-department-political-science-winner-swedish-parliaments-essay-competition-2022 - 2025-06-17

Published 13 December 2022 Amid growing polarisation in European societies, civil society elites, encompassing resource-rich, influential and often liberal-oriented civil society organisations (CSOs), are under increased attacks by conservative and progressive actors alike. This article aims to understand who challenges civil society elites, on what grounds, and with what means do they do so in th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/milka-ivanovska-hadjievska-civil-society-elites-challengers-uk - 2025-06-17

Published 16 December 2022 Thorsteinn Kristinsson has successfully defended his thesis Webs of World Order - A Relational Theory of Rising Powers and the Evolution of International Order. Congratulations! Abstract This dissertation advances a relational theory of rising powers and their influence on international order. The emergence of new great powers and the relative decline of incumbent ones i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/thorsteinn-kristinsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-06-17

Published 16 December 2022 Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Pasko Kisić Merino (Karlstad University) published the article ‘Governing Emotions: Hybrid media, Ontological Insecurity and the Normalisation of Far-Right Fantasies’ in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Abstract Focusing on the debates on ‘due impartiality’ provided to far-right leaders in Swedish media, this article u

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-governing-emotions-hybrid-media-ontological-insecurity-and-normalisation-far-right - 2025-06-17

Published 16 December 2022 Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Amit Singh (University of Coimbra, Portugal) published the article ‘Enforcing and Resisting Hindutva: Popular Culture, the COVID-19 Crisis and Fantasy Narratives of Motherhood and Pseudoscience in India’ in the Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 12. The article can be accessed at: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/12/550 R

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-enforcing-and-resisting-hindutva-popular-culture-covid-19-crisis-and-fantasy - 2025-06-17

Published 9 January 2023 Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. Astract India and Pakistan are entrenched in an antagonistic relation that is constantly on the verge of, once more, developing into an armed conflict. There are, presently, no signs of conciliatory initiatives

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-06-17

Published 9 January 2023 Ian Manners has published a chapter on “Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century” in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century edited by Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert, and Franziska Müller. Abstract: After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s politica

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-planetary-politics-twenty-second-century - 2025-06-17

Published 17 January 2023 The researchers Karl Holmberg and Sara Persson at the Department of Political Science have recently published an article based on a survey of Swedes' attitudes of regulation on plastics. The survey shows that the Swedish population in general is very positive about regulating plastics in various ways. Some differences are observed, for example, men and people with right-w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedish-population-favor-regulation-plastics - 2025-06-17

Published 31 January 2023 During the last days of January, around 50 PhD students from four countries met to discuss the forest's past, present and future. A key insight was that ongoing research is far broader than how it’s often portrayed in the general forest debate. Participants from 10 universities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland went from large-scale to microscopic in discussions from

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forest-research-beyond-disciplines-navigating-forest-landscape - 2025-06-17

Published 2 February 2023 Elsa Hedling has authored the article ‘Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats’ recently published in Emotions and Society. The article analyses how diplomats perceive the demands of digital diplomacy and how emotions are engaged in their efforts to perform competently both online and offline. The findings suggest that the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-emotional-labour-digital-diplomacy - 2025-06-17

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 9 February 2023 Markus Holdo in front of the town Anghiari in Tuscany during fieldwork. Photo: Markus Holdo. ...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? –  Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-06-17

Published 21 February 2023 Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-06-17

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 22 February 2023 Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska just published a chapter in Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States about the democratic potential of politically and socially oriented civil society organizations in North Macedonia. Let us find out more – here are some questions to Milka: For someone who is

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2025-06-17

Published 16 February 2024 Although there is no clear connection between attractiveness and generosity, we often expect attractive people to be more generous than less attractive people. This study explores the bi-directional relationship between (expectations of) prosocial behavior and attractiveness. In a pre-registered behavioral experiment, we examined the causal effect of attractiveness on ex

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/beauty-prosocial-behavior-how-prosocial-behavior-affect-attractiveness - 2025-06-17

Published 20 February 2024 Based on a review of the correspondence between Swedish diplomats in the Baltic States and the Swedish Foreign Ministry for the years 1938–1940, the purpose of this article is, firstly, to elaborate a framework for the analysis of intelligence reporting in times of crisis, secondly, to investigate how the Swedish diplomats in the Baltic States went about to report intell

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/intelligence-reporting-and-crisis-swedish-diplomats-reporting-intelligence-baltic-states-1938-1940 - 2025-06-17

Published 29 February 2024 Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard och doctoral student Evan Drake at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. In November 2023, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake, and experts from the University of Cambridge and the International Institute for Sustainable Development organised a workshop in Paris titled 'Strengthening International Commitments to Shift Public Fi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/workshop-highlights-challenges-redirecting-public-finance-fossil-fuels-sustainable-development - 2025-06-17

Published 29 February 2024 Roxanna Sjöstedt has authored the chapter "Foreign Policy Analysis and Securitization" which has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis (eds. Juliet Kaarbo & Cameron Thies). The chapter explores to what extent securitization theory can be linked to the issues raised within the field of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and argues that these seemingl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roxanna-sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-06-17

Published 1 March 2024 Doctor Georgia de Leeuw being celebrated at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Georgia de Leeuw has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The comfort of alignment: Mining, green steel, and killjoy desires in Sweden/Sápmi'. Congratulations! Georgia de Leeuw and Associate Professor Mattias Borg Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen during dissertation at

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/georgia-de-leeuw-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-06-17

Published 4 March 2024 Foreign ministers are prominent actors in foreign affairs, often second only to heads of government in their influence. Yet, despite the growing awareness of the importance of key actors in the study of international relations, foreign ministers remain understudied. In a recently published book, Bäck and colleagues present an original dataset on the background of foreign min

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-foreign-ministers-hanna-back-alejandro-quiroz-flores-and-jan-teorell - 2025-06-17