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Plast och andra petrokemikalier expanderar snabbt. Akademisk och politisk uppmärksamhet har fokuserat på konsumtion av plast, men i en ny Open Access-artikel med tidskriften Global Environmental Change, utforskar Jakob Skovgaard och hans medförfattare finansieringen av petrokemisk produktion. Ett nyckelresultat är att offentliga finanser spelar en viktig roll för att expandera petrokemisk produkti

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/skovgaard-och-medforfattare-utforskar-finansieringen-av-petrokemisk-produktion - 2026-07-23

Karin Aggestam och Jacqui True har författat kapitlet ”The rise of feminist governance in foreign policy” i ”Handbook of feminist governance”, redigerad av Sawer, M., Bananszak, A., True, J., Kantola, J.     Läs mer om Handbook of Feminist Governance här på Edward Elgar Publishings hemsida. Till Karin Aggestams hemsida  

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/aggestam-och-true-om-feministisk-styrning-i-utrikespolitiken - 2026-07-23

Catarina Kinnvall och medförfattaren Pasko Kisić-Merino har nyligen publicerat sin artikel 'Deglobalization and the Political Psychology of White Supremacy' i Theory &; Psychology, vol. 33, issue 2. Abstrakt Artikeln handlar om de psykologiska dimensionerna av deglobalisering och vit makt-grupper, kopplat till deras fantasier om "vithet". (Åter)konstruktionen av berättelser och myter är omstridda

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/kinnvall-och-kisic-merino-om-deglobalisering-och-vit-makt-gruppers-psykologi - 2026-07-23

Anders Uhlin har tillsammans med Soetkin Verhaegen skrivit artikeln “Elites’ (De)legitimation Practices toward International Organizations” som publicerats i Global Studies Quarterly. Utifrån unik enkätdata analyserar författarna hur politiska och samhälleliga eliter bidrar till legitimering och delegitimering av internationella organisationer. Länk till artikeln: https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ks

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/uhlin-om-eliters-legitimering-och-delegitimering-av-internationella-organisationer - 2026-07-23

Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA) presenterar årets 100-lista med forskningsprojekt som bedöms ha stor potential att komma till nytta genom kommersialisering, affärsutveckling eller samhällspåverkan. Årets lista där Rikard Bengtsson och Jana Wrange tillsammans med Douglas Brommesson är med, lyfter forskning som adresserar teknik i mänsklighetens tjänst inom klimatomställning, energiförsörj

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/rikard-bengtsson-och-jana-wrange-tar-plats-pa-ivas-100-lista - 2026-07-23

Genom att koppla ihop två forskningsfält – civilsamhällesstudier och elitforskning – visar den här boken hur vissa individer når positioner som kan ses som tillhörande en civilsamhälleselit och undersöker hur de interagerar med elitgrupper inom stat, näringsliv och partipolitik.Denna antologi analyserar hur sådana processer påverkas av utländsk finansiering och jämför en kontext med minskande (Kam

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/uhlin-med-kollegor-om-civilsamhalleseliter-i-kambodja-och-indonesien - 2026-07-23

Berätta, varför just Tunisien? Som doktorand i statsvetenskap med inriktning på jämförande politik i Mellanöstern undersöker jag feministisk aktivism och genuspolitik i Mellanöstern och Nordafrika, med särskilt fokus på Tunisien, Egypten och Saudiarabien. Det som intresserar mig handlar till stor del om att feminism oftast ses som en europeisk eller västerländsk ”produkt” som exporteras till reste

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/halla-dar-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-hemkommen-fran-faltarbete-i-tunisien - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The book "Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change" (open access) provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspecti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/affects-change-ethnography-affective-experiences-2013-military-intervention-egypt-new-book-chapter - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The research group behind this article in the journal Earth´s future: Ronny Berndtsson, Hossein Hashemi, Sadegh Jamali, Cintia B. Uvo, George J. Huffman, Majid Kazemzadeh Ordinary linear regression models have been widely used for trend analysis in many related studies. This procedure implicitly assumes that precipita

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-open-access-research-cmes-linear-and-nonlinear-trend-analyzes-global-satellite-based - 2026-07-23

Research group: Hossein Hashemi, Majid Kazemzadeh, Ali Salajegheh, Arash Malekian, Abdolmajid Liaghat  Soil moisture, vegetation cover, and land surface temperature are vital variables in water-energy balance, eco-hydrological processes, and water resources management, which can be influenced by watershed management activities. This research focused on the spatial and temporal variability of soil

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-water-research-soil-moisture-change-analysis-under-watershed-management-practice-using-situ - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Accelerated by changes in the geography and capitalist social relations of production, the influx of labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers has transformed the demography of cities in the global North. In the Swedish context, as the demography of the cities is altering, neoliberal urban planning and regeneration

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/negotiating-invisibility-street-making-margins-malmo-laleh-foroughanfar - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maria F Malmström is taking part of the conference: "Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: A Decade after the Arab Uprisings" Virtual Workshop Series (University of Gothenburg). The title of her talk is "Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Politics and Ambivalent Cairene Masculinities". The

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/navigating-ocean-suspicion-affective-politics-and-ambivalent-cairene-masculinities - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Research initiation CMES offers seed money for research initiation and preparation of applications for national and international rese

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-travel-grant-and-research-initiation-now-open-applications - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New calls for research funding, and scientific advisory board in the making! While we are still waiting for warmer spring weather to arrive there are some encouraging signs that we are now moving towards brighter times. The surrounding of CMES is distinguished by beautiful Magnolia trees in full blossom and the vaccin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-20-april-2021 - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Thursday 20 May Morten is giving a CMES Research Seminar on the topic: What is so Sectarian about Sectarian Politics? Identity Politics and Authoritarianism in a New Middle East. 1.    How has sectarian politics been debated before, during and after the Arab Revolts? The public debate on sectarianism easily leaves the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-questions-morten-valbjorn - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which  has harvested immense humanitarian suffering on both sides. And it must happen quickly, according to Peace and conflict researcher Lisa Strömbom. The UN warns of full-scale war if the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas cont

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2026-07-23

External research grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). This project aims to interrogate existing boundaries to women’s participation in peace processes and identifies reasons for the failure of peace making to address the gendered foundations and impacts of conflict. The interdisciplinary research team consists of Karin Aggestam and Linda Eitrem Holmgren, CMES, Lund University, Jacqui

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-research-project-gendering-peacemaking-middle-east - 2026-07-23

A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. However, integrative methods for joint social, ethical, human, and engineering approaches in SDG implementations are to a great extent still lacking. Access to safe water is a key element in many of the SDGs. Hydrosolidarity principles are important on a national and international scale. They seek to apply equita

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-pufendorf-research-theme-hydrosolidarity-20 - 2026-07-23

Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. The first one took place in Tunisia and was then followed by unrest in Egypt

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2026-07-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. #21 May, 2021 Message from the director   Summer greetings from the team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies Finally, warm sunny weather has arrived and slowly but surely Sweden is opening up again since the vaccination program is now in full swing. At CMES, we are able to enjoy outdoor “Corona-safe” mee

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter - 2026-07-23