Published 21 July 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Ivan Gusic have published ”'Global' Norms and ’Local' Agency: Frictional Peacebuilding in Kosovo" in Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract:This article explores how the ‘liberal democratic peace package’ is received in post-conflict spaces. As such, it is part of a critical peace research agenda that raise

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-gusic-problems-liberal-peacebuilding - 2025-05-23

Published 26 July 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Greener than expected? EU finance ministries address climate finance" in the journal Environmental Politics. Abstract:Climate finance constitutes an integral part of the European Union’s climate policy. Yet, climate policy is increasingly addressed by non-environmental institutions. In examining the transfe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-eu-climate-policy - 2025-05-23

Published 3 August 2015 Annika Bergman Rosamond presented her research on Celebrity Interventionism at the Centre for International Intervention, Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK, 23 July 2015. Link:Narratives of Intervention: Perspectives from North and South

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-presents-her-research - 2025-05-23

Published 4 August 2015 The department is currently hosting two respectable journals. And both of them are doing well under the stewardship. Both "Cooperation and Conflict", edited by Annika Björkdahl, Martin Hall, Ted Svensson, Lisa Strömbom and Maysam Behravesh, and "Political Psychology", edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Hanna Bäck, have increased their impact factors and climbed in the rankings

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/journals-hosted-department-increase-impact-factors - 2025-05-23

Published 10 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has written the article "Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe", recently published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Abstract:In this article I analyze how far right movements and parties in Europe are challenging European notions of open borders and the freedom of movement through activ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-european-far-right - 2025-05-23

Published 12 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article "Demography and Democracy: A Global, District-level Analysis of Electoral Contestation" in American Political Science Review. Among the co-authors is John Gerring (Boston University). Abstract:"According to the classical perspective, polity size and democracy are inversely related. In this article, we argue th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-democracy-and-size-polities - 2025-05-23

Published 14 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall is the co-author and co-editor of an introductory essay to a special issue of Political Psychology. The introduction of the essay:Narratives are the stories people construct to make sense of their reality. Narratives help usunderstand who we are, where we come from, and the implications of that for our current lives. At acollecti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-narratives-regarding-security - 2025-05-23

Published 17 August 2015 Erik Ringmar's latest book, Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palance of the Emperor of China, has been reviewed in the Political Studies Review. "During October 1860, British and French troops looted Yuanmingyuan at the outskirts of Beijing. The sacking of what is commonly known in the Western World as the Summer Palace of the Chinese Emperor marked the d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmars-book-reviewed - 2025-05-23

Published 19 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren have authored the article "Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the national: protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda" in the journal Conflict, Security and Development 15(4). Abstract:A decade and a half after the adoption of United Nat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1325 - 2025-05-23

Published 19 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren have authored the article "Translating UNSCR 1325 from the global to the national: protection, representation and participation in the National Action Plans of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda" in the journal Conflict, Security and Development 15(4). Abstract:A decade and a half after the adoption of United Nat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1325-0 - 2025-05-23

Published 20 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: The book "Rethinking the Green State. Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions" has just been published by Routledge. Editors are Karin Bäckstrand and Annica Kronsell, with chapter contributions from other researchers at the department: Rickard Andersson, Roger Hildingsson and Åsa Knaggård. Description:This innovativ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-rethinking-green-state - 2025-05-23

Published 21 August 2015 Ole Elgström has contributed with the chapter "Negotiating a New World Order: The EU and Multilateral Diplomacy at Times of Change" in the book The Diplomatic System of the European Union (edited by Michael Smith, Stephan Keukeleire and Sophie Vanhoonacker), published by Routledge. LinksMore about the book.Ole Elgström

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-eu-diplomacy - 2025-05-23

Published 26 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam has co-authored The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Is there a meeting point between nationalism and hydro solidarity? in the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education. Karin AggestamRead the article n the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education.AbstractThe soon-to-be completed Grand Ethiopian R

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-hydro-solidarity-nationalism-and-ethiopian-renaissance-dam - 2025-05-23

Published 26 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Erik Ringmar's article, "How the World-Stage Makes Its Subjects: An Embodied Critique of Constructivist IR Theory," has just been published by the Journal of International Relations and Development. ”The world is a stage and it is only by appearing on this world stage that the state becomes real. To back up this argument the article draws from rec

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmar-performance-politics - 2025-05-23

Published 26 August 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: The volume EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict is recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. Sara Kalm and Håkan Johansson from The School of Social Work (LU) are co-editors and authors of the introductory chapter. Ylva Stubbergaard contributes the chapter "Conflict And Cooperation: Interactions Among Eu Level Civil

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-stubbergaard-and-hedling-new-book-eu-civil-society - 2025-05-23

Published 2 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström and Natalia Chaban, University of Canterbury, have written the chapter "Studying External Perceptions of the EU: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches" in the e-book Looking in from the Outside: Perceptions of the EU in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Editors: Veit Bachmann and Martin Müller. Published by Palgrave Macmilla

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu - 2025-05-23

Published 3 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has co-authored the article ”The ’Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy and Authority versus the ’Local’" which highlights the field and the semantic and socio-political meaning of the term as it is used in both academic research and policy practices. ”The ’Field’ in the Age of Intervention: Power, Legitimacy and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-analyses-field - 2025-05-23

Published 8 September 2015 The course “Climate Change: a question of justice?” will be held just in time for the UN climate summit in Paris in December and is open to all with no registration fee. The Department of Political Science is collaborating with the Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Programme in Environmental Sciences (infernum) at Hagen University, Germany to produce this massive open

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/un-climate-summit-paris-focus-interactive-open-online-course - 2025-05-23

Published 9 September 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Erik Ringmar's latest book, "Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China," has just been published in paperback. This work explains why British and French armies destroyed Yuanmingyuan, the imperial palace north-west of Beijing, in 1860.Why did the Europeans, bent on "civilizing" the Chinese, engage in this

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmar-contradiction-between-civilization-and-barbarism - 2025-05-23

Published 11 September 2015 Erik Ringmar's lecture on "Nomadic political theory," given at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, on June 25, 2015, is now available online. The lecture examines the way nomadic peoples have been treated throughout history by sedentary peoples, but also the way nomadsArabs, Mongols, etc. – have built empires founded on an alternative, non-territorial, basis.This historic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmar-nomadic-peoples-role-future-politics - 2025-05-23