Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the article ”Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making: Ethics, Politics and Gender” published by Ethics and International Affairs. Abstract:"In 2015, the world's first self-defined feminist government was formed in Sweden with the explicit ambition of pursuing a feminist foreign policy. This essay seeks to unpack and highlight some o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-swedish-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-08-21

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True will give a talk on gender equality in foreign policy at PRIO in Oslo. About the seminar:Recently the Norwegian Government launched an action plan on women's rights and gender equality in foreign policy and development cooperation.  At this seminar leading international scholars on gender and foreign policy have been invited to discuss some of these questions in ligh

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-gender-foreign-policy-prio - 2025-08-21

Researchers from our Department have gained research money for two different projects. The first one is on conflict prevention in vulnerable cities and the other one is on the new urban challenge. Annika Björkdahl has together with Ivan Gusic (Lund University), Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (The Swedish Institute of International Affairs) and Kristine Höglund (Uppsala University) been awarded a fiv

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/research-grant-two-projects - 2025-08-21

Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström have published the Sieps (Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies) report "Success Factors in EU Agricultural Negotiations". The authors presented their findings at a seminar in Stockholm last Friday.The report can be found on Sieps’ websiteOle Elgström’s personal pageMalena Rosén Sundström’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-rosen-sundstrom-eu-agricultural-negotiations - 2025-08-21

Annika Bergman Rosamond will deliver a keynote on celebrity and peace at the opening seminar of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre, at the University of Iceland on October 7. Learn more on visitreykjavik.isProgramme (PDF)Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-gives-keynote-celebrity-and-peace - 2025-08-21

Christer Jönsson has authored the chapter "States Only? The Evolution of Diplomacy" in ”The Transformation of Foreign Policy” (edited by Gunther Hellmann, Andreas Fahrmeir & Milos Vec). Learn more on Oxford University Press’ websiteHe has also authored the chapter "Diplomacy, Communication and Signaling" in ”The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy” (edited by Costas M. Constantinou, Pauline Kerr & Paul Sha

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-diplomacy - 2025-08-21

Sofie Gustafsson defended her dissertation "Medborgarskapande på olika villkor. Självbild, skolkoder och syn på kunskap i den svenska gymnasieskolan" on November 11 at 10:15 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Medborgarskapande på olika villkor. Självbild, skolkoder och syn på kunskap i den svenska gymnasieskolanSofie Gustafsson’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sofie-gustafsson-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-21

Carlo Knotz defended his dissertation “Forcing the Unemployed to Work: Essays on the Politics of Unemployment Benefit Reform in Affluent Democracies" today at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Getting Tough on Unemployment: Essays on the politics of unemployment benefit reform in affluent democraciesCarlo Knotz’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/carlo-knotz-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-08-21

Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (UI), Stefanie Kappler (Durham University) and Susanne Buckley-Zistel (Marburg University) received a research grant for the project ”Peace and the Politics of Memory”. The project "Peace and the Politics of Memory" investigates how a post-conflict society harbours conflicting memories and experiences and how the making of memory is c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/research-grant-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-08-21

Hanna Bäck is one of the authors of the article ”Multiparty government and economic policy-making. Coalition agreements, prime ministerial power and spending in Western European Cabinets” which has been published in the journal Public Choice. AbstractMultiparty government has often been associated with poor economic policy-making, with distortions like lower growth rates and high budget deficits.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-governments-and-policy-making - 2025-08-21

Catarina Kinnvall is keynote speaker at three universities in New Delhi (India) this week; South Asia University, O.P. Jindal University och på Delhi University. She will give talks on:”The position of the Ahmadiyyas: Minority Rights in Pakistan” at South Asia University”Ontological Security and the Political Psychology of Radicalization” at O.P. Jindal University”Feeling Ontologically (In)secure:

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/outreach-new-delhi - 2025-08-21

Martin Hall has together with Ted Svensson and Annika Bergman-Rosamond gained research money from Vetenskapsrådet for the project ”Världsarvets politik”. Part of abstract:The project identifies two tensions that characterise global modernity and investigates how these can help to explain the contemporary design and pursuit of the politics of WH. Our research purpose is twofold, first to explore ho

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/82-million-sek-funding - 2025-08-21

Fariborz Zelli will chair the Earth System Governance conference in Nairobi on December 7-9. This year’s conference, the seventh in the series, is the first one in Africa. The overarching theme “Confronting Complexity and Inequality” will be discussed in panel and plenary sessions over three days. Environmental governance research in and about Africa will be at the heart of the conference. Apart f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zelli-will-chair-leading-environmental-governance-conference-nairobi - 2025-08-21

Kurtis Boyer and Fabio Cristiano will be talking at ISVW in Netherlands on November 12-13. They will talk about their article on drone warfare and humane meat as representations of the politics of empathy. Learn more on isvw.nlKurtis Boyer’s personal pageFabio Cristiano’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/outreach-animal-politics - 2025-08-21

The Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, has appointed Annika Bergman Rosamond as External Examiner for the Politics Programme for the academic years 2016-2019. Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-appointed-external-examiner-maynooth-university - 2025-08-21

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have authored the article ”Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals”, published in Forum for Development Studies. The article can be found on tandfonline.comAbstract:This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bexell-and-jonsson-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-08-21

Researchers from our and other Lund University departments will launch the Lund Human Rights Research Hub on December 8, at 14.00-17.00 in the aula of the Main University Building. This network hub will stimulate cooperation on research, education and dissemination of human rights issues. See link for more information on the event and its key note lecture.Learn more on humanrights.lu.seSee Ted Sve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/launch-lund-human-right-research-hub - 2025-08-21

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Serena Kelly and Natalia Chaban have together with Ole Elgström published the article "Perceptions of the European Union's Fledgling Delegations: More Coherence, More Effectiveness?" in the journal European Foreign Affairs Review (vol. 21, no. 4). Abstract in English:The debate surrounding the challenge of improving coherence in European Union (EU) foreign policy is ongoi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/perceptions-european-unions-fledgling-delegations - 2025-08-21

The Swedish government is putting forward a range of proposals based on Maria Strömvik’s government report (SOU 2016: 10). The site europaportalen.se. has published an interview with the Minister for EU Affairs Ann Linde about the proposals she is putting forward based on Strömvik’s current investigation (in Swedish).Go to Maria Strömvik’s personal page.    

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/government-launches-initiative-following-stromviks-investigation - 2025-08-21

Johannes Lindvall has received a large grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project Policing, Schooling, and Health Care in Historical and Comparative Perspective.

 Over the course of six years Johannes Lindvall will study the emergence of new types of public services in the nineteenth century, and its consequences for political developments in the twentieth century and in our own time

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/12-million-sek-project-policing-schools-and-health-care - 2025-08-21