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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jan Teorell has together with Kelly McMann, Brigitte Seim and Staffan Lindberg co-authored the article "Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish It", which has been published in the journal “Political Research Quarterly”. Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, scholars
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-and-corruption - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sara Kalm, Lisa Strömbom and Anders Uhlin have co-authored the article ”Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of ’Counter-Democracy’”, which has been published in the journal “Global Society”. The article proposes a new way of analysing the potential of civil society organisations (
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/civil-society-democratising-global-governance - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catia Gregoratti have authored the book chapter ”All Under the Same Sky? Celebrity Philanthropy and the Transnational Market for Women’s Empowerment” in the edited collection ”The Political Economy of Celebrity Activism” (edited by N. Farrell). This chapter is an attempt to enable a product
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrities-and-feminism - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maiken Røed has co-authored the article “All about the money? A cross-national study of parties’ relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies”, published in Party Politics. The article examines political parties’ relations with trade unions and shows that there is a positive correlation between financial con
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-political-parties-relations-trade-unions - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Roxanna Sjöstedt has authored the book chapter “Assessing Securitization Theory: Theoretical Discussions and Empirical Developments” in the book “Securitization Revisited Contemporary Applications and Insights” (edited by Michael Butler). Sjöstedt provides a summary of the theoretical development of the concept of sec
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Björkdahl and Stefanie Kappler have recently published the article “The Creation of Transnational Memory Spaces: Professionalization and Commercialization”, in “International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society” analyzing the memory-making in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa. In the age of globalization
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-transnational-memory-politics - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 i
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-living-climate-disasters - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 emerg
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-populism-india - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-and-elgstrom-swedish-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 act
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-and-bengtsson-small-state-security - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contested-global-governance - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 f
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/critical-perspectives-bartelsons-latest-book - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Pre
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-ethics-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-book-ontological-insecurity - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 id
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/municipalities-enablers-urban-experimentation - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 democra
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/should-immigrants-vote - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What are the incentives of politicians to either clean up or maintain corrupt courts in nondemocracies? Ketevan Bolkvadze examines this in a recent article published in the Comparative Political Studies. This article offers a novel take on the problem of judicial independence in nondemocracies. Some scholars hold that
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-problem-judicial-independence-nondemocracies - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Roxanna Sjöstedt has together with Anders Themnér, Uppsala University, co-authored the article ”Buying Them Off or Scaring Them Straight: Explaining Warlord Democrats’ Electoral Rhetoric”, which has been published in the journal Security Studies. AbstractPost–civil war democracies are characterized by intense electora
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-warlord-democrats-electoral-rhetoric - 2026-08-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz presented her recent project with the title "Striatal Neuropathology induced by Hypothalamic Overexpression of Huntingtin Fragments using Adeno-associated Viral Vectors in Mice” as an oral presentation in the Short Communication session at the EHDN meeting in the Hague, the Netherlands, in Septem
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-research-selected-oral-presentation-ehdn-meeting - 2026-08-07
