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Sara Kalm has published the article ”The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance” in the journal Global Society. The article is concerned with the private firms that design and manage programs for selling citizenship for the governments that have chosen this policy path. It examines how these firms exert power, by a focus on their intermediary positions between g

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-firms-sell-citizenship - 2025-09-29

Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Research Council, aims to offer novel, interdisciplinary and high-qua

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2025-09-29

Rikard Bengtsson has together with Douglas Brommesson (Linnaeus University) published an article entitled "Institutional trust and emergency preparedness: Perceptions of Covid 19 crisis management in Sweden" in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. The article analyses the Swedish public's trust in different actors involved in Covid 19 crisis management and how current crisis management

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-trust-and-crisis-management - 2025-09-29

Thomas Hickmann has co-authored a new open access article in the journal Earth System Governance. The article presents the current state of knowledge on the relationship between democratic practices and sustainability transformations. Starting off from long-standing debates about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability, the a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/are-democracies-task-generating-large-scale-sustainability-transformation-and-sustain-liveable - 2025-09-29

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article "Tracing Responses to Recognition in the Oslo Peace Process and Its Aftermath - the Interlinkage between Relational and Internal Ontological Security" in the journal Conflict Resolution Quarterly (open access). The article deals with mechanisms for how formal and relatively superficial forms of recognition in peace processes can open up for conflict transf

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-recognition-peace-processes - 2025-09-29

Lisa Strömbom, Isabel Bramsen and Anne Lene Stein have recently published the article "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas" in Review of International Studies (open access). The study develops a framework for analysis of agonistic principles in peace agreements, based on the three indicators 1) spaces for interaction, 2) forms of inclusion, and 3) the framing of the peace agr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-bramsen-and-stein-how-analyze-and-understand-agonistic-principles-peace-agreements - 2025-09-29

Sara Kalm has written a book chapter on migration and welfare together with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall, both at Gothenburg University. The chapter is called ”Welfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship”, and is part of the newly published Handbook on Migration and Welfare, Edward Elgar Publishing, ed. Markus M.L. Crepaz. Link to the volume on Edward Elgar Publi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-borang-and-lindvall-migration-and-welfare - 2025-09-29

Malte Breiding Hansen and Maria Jansson (Örebro University) have authored the open-access article ”Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State” in the journal NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. The article asks whether articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of political agency have cha

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-and-jansson-gender-neoliberalism-and-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-09-29

Elsa Hedling has co-authored the book The Everyday Making of EU Foreign and Security Policy. Practices, Socialization and the Management of Dissent published Open Access by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book confronts why despite increasing levels of contestation on CFSP issues between EU member states, EU practitioners generally perceive their working environment as fully functional and even impro

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-everyday-making-eu-foreign-and-security-policy - 2025-09-29

Johan Matz has published an article in Intelligence and National Security. This article approaches the intelligence dimension of Sweden’s arms exports by going back to three governmental decisions, taken in 1914, 1935 and 1971 respectively, all of which have been pivotal to both the Swedish government’s involvement in arms exports and the emergence of government institutions handling the intellige

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/johan-matz-arms-exports-and-intelligence-case-sweden - 2025-09-29

In a newly published article in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson analyse the appeal of far-right populist politics in the everyday and how this appeal is related to continuity and change in the global order. One of their key arguments is that while far-right populism is able to momentarily overwrite a sense of deep-felt anxiety among i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-dynamics-everyday-populism - 2025-09-29

In the chapter ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the EU’s own role self-conception as it appears in the EU Global Strategy from 2016 and problematizes how the changing international context in recent years yield new preconditions for the EU to act on the global stage. The chapter is part of a recently published volume entitled National Role Concept

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eus-role-self-conception-global-affairs - 2025-09-29

On March 9, 2022, a panel of Lund University experts considered: Why history matters to the invasion and conflict? What does the invasion mean for Putin’s Russia, Ukraine, and beyond? What is the impact of the invasion on Sweden, Europe, and the rest of the world? Watch the panel discussion ’The Russian invasion of Ukraine - why history matters and what will be the impact?‘ on our YouTube channel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/panel-experts-russian-invasion-ukraine - 2025-09-29

New article by Ted Svensson and Agnes Cornell on the introduction of merit reforms in nineteenth-century Britain and its possible colonial origins. In a newly published article in Governance, Ted Svensson (together with Agnes Cornell) explores whether the inspiration to reform the British Civil Service, along the lines suggested in the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan Report, was drawn from the introducti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-and-agnes-cornell-introduction-merit-reforms-nineteenth-century-britain - 2025-09-29

The article compares two approaches to transnational humanitarian recuperation that Italian organisations undertook in relation to children affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. The first approach was a home stay and the second – a camp stay. Using in-depth interviews with children and their parents from Belarus and Japan as well as NGO reports and media reports, the article s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/chronic-crisis-and-nuclear-disaster-humanitarianism-cases-chernobyl-and-fukushima - 2025-09-29

Isabel Bramsen has published the article, “Transformative diplomacy? Micro-sociological observations from the Philippine peace talks” in International Affairs”. The article investigates the dynamics and limits of face-to-face peace diplomacy based on direct observations from the Philippine peace talks. Link to the article in International Affairs.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-dynamics-and-limits-diplomacy-philippine-peace-talks - 2025-09-29

Niklas Altermark and Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska are co-authors of a new article on leadership training for civil society: Training leaders for the future? Leadership models for emerging and aspiring civil society leaders in Sweden and the UK This article aims to understand the prevalent leadership models in seven prominent leadership development programmes targeting emerging and aspiring civil soc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/more-top-down-management-swedish-leadership-programs-civil-society - 2025-09-29

Isabel Bramsen just published a PRIO case brief, “Controversies of Inclusion in the Colombian Peace Process: The Balancing Act of Introducing New Norms and Gaining Popular Support”, where she discusses the peace vs. inclusion dilemmas taking point of departure in the Colombian peace process. The question of justice versus peace has long been accepted as a core dilemma in peace studies and practice

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-controversies-regarding-inclusion-peace-processes - 2025-09-29

This article examines the emergence of a ‘migration industry’ as a result of European border externalisation and security outsourcing practices to curb migration flows from Libya. It argues that the management of migration has been partly delegated to a network of interlinked private and public actors which constitute a complex migration governance structure that ultimately gives rise to issues of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/pacciardi-and-berndtsson-emergence-migration-industry - 2025-09-29

Today Sarai-Anne Ikenze succesfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment: An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity’, in which she descriptively demonstrates significant continuity over time in terms of which sectors were prioritized and the policy approaches used to structure economic activity within those sectors in ten Sub-Saharan African countries between t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sarai-anne-ikenze-has-defended-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-09-29