Catarina Kinnvall has, together with Helle Rydström, edited the book “Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gendered Ramifications”. This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where pow

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-living-climate-disasters - 2025-08-27

Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “Populism, ontological insecurity and Hindutva: Modi and the masculinization of Indian politics”, which has been published in the journal “Cambridge Review of International Affairs”. Abstract In an era increasingly defined by insecurity and populist politics, India has emerged as a forceful ontological security provider under the leadership of Marendra M

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-populism-india - 2025-08-27

Malena Rosén Sundström and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article ”Praise or critique? Sweden’s feminist foreign policy in the eyes of its fellow EU members”, which has been published in the journal ”European Politics and Society”. The article trains focus on how other EU member states perceive the Swedish feminist foreign policy. The study is based on a survey and interviews with representativ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-and-elgstrom-swedish-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-08-27

Jana Wrange and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article ”Internal and external perceptions of small state security: the case of Estonia”, which has been published in the journal ”European Security”. This article concerns small state security from a cognitive perspective and investigates Estonia as a security actor as perceived by all littoral Baltic Sea states. Drawing on unique elite survey

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-and-bengtsson-small-state-security - 2025-08-27

Over the summer, Bart Bes has published two articles dealing with the consequences of contestation in global governance. The articles have been published in the journals ”European Journal for Political Research” and ”Global Policy”. European Journal of Political ResearchTogether with Christian Rauh (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) and Martijn Schoonvelde (University College Dublin), Bes investig

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contested-global-governance - 2025-08-27

Jens Bartelson’s latest book ”War in International Thought” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) has been subject of a book forum in the online latest issue of ”Millennium: Journal of International Studies”. In this forum leading scholars discuss Bartelson’s contribution to the history of the concept of war from a range of different perspectives, assessing its relevance and implications f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/critical-perspectives-bartelsons-latest-book - 2025-08-27

Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the article ”Feminist Foreign Policy 3.0: Advancing Ethics and Gender Equality in Global Politics”. The article is published in a special issue on ethics and foreign Policy in the journal “SAIS Review of International Affairs” (The John Hopkins University Press). The article analyses ethics and gender in foreign policy and the incremental

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-ethics-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-08-27

Catarina Kinnvall has together with Ian Manners and Jennifer Mitzen published an edited volume entitled “Ontological Insecurity in the European Union” (London: Routledge, 2019). The European Union (EU) faces many crises and risks to its security and existence. While few of them threaten the lives of EU citizens, they all create a sense of anxiety and insecurity about the future for many ordinary E

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-book-ontological-insecurity - 2025-08-27

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Annica Kronsell, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan och Timo von Wirth, co-authored an article that analyzes how municipalities govern urban sustainability experiments in Sweden and the Netherlands. Today, public and private actors are increasingly using pilot projects and test beds to identify and test new - more sustainable - solutions for traveling living and worki

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/municipalities-enablers-urban-experimentation - 2025-08-27

Helena Gonzales Lindberg has defended her dissertation "The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic" today at 10:15 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, University of Tromsø. The constitutive power of maps in the ArcticHelena Gonzales Lindberg’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/helena-gonzales-lindberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-27

Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017)”, which has been published in the journal “Citizenship Studies”. Nationality determines access to political rights in most contemporary democracies. Yet, over forty countries currently allow non-citizens to vote at various l

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/should-immigrants-vote - 2025-08-27

Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark, Linda Nyberg Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social investment as a tool for m

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2025-08-27

Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds personal web pageAnnika Kronsells personal web page Annika Bergman Rosamond (tv) och

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2025-08-27

Ted Svensson has co-authored an article that was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. It is entitled 'Lessons from the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India'. The article, which is informed by a self-categorisation and social-identity framework of identity entrepreneurship as well as social r

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-new-article-explores-selective-account-past-events-nationalist-movements - 2025-08-27

Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted at the Department of Political Science?In light of the information about the Depa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2025-08-27

The teacher representatives on the board of the Department of Political Science in response to Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein's guest editorial in SvD concerning gender distribution among authors on course reading lists. In a guest editorial in the daily SvD on 7 November, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein expresses indignation about the Department of Political Science’s alleged lack of respect and confi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/guideline-gender-distribution-does-not-influence-course-content - 2025-08-27

Karin Aggestam och Ann Towns have edited a new book on Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation (Palgrave). About the book:This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research agenda, including new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on gender, p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-aggestam-towns-gendering-diplomacy-and-international-negotiations - 2025-08-27

Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson inquires into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our understanding of the modern political world and the role of war within it. As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoun

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-war-international-thought - 2025-08-27

Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter 'Säkerhet’ (Security) in the book Politik och Kön: Feministiska Perspektiv på Statsvetenskap, (translation: Gender and Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Science) edited by Lenita Freidenvall & Maria Jansson (Studentlitteratur). Link to book at Studentitteratur.seLink to Annika Bergman Rosamond's personal web page  

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-security-book-about-feminist-research - 2025-08-27

Catarina Kinnvall has together with John Cash edited a Special Issue in Postcolonial Studies (vol. 20, issue 3, 2017), entitled: ’Postcolonial Bordering and Ontological Insecurities’. Current and former colleagues at the Department, Ted Svensson and Emil Edenborg, also contribute articles to the Special Issue For more information, see: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpcs20/current?nav=tocList

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-postcolonial-studies-edited-catarina-kinnvall - 2025-08-27