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Published 28 January 2025 Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-suggestion-of-clearing-out-gaza-adds-another-risk-to-an-already-fragile-ceasefire-248334Karin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam
Published 10 February 2025 How should the Russian war against Ukraine reshape the way we teach International Relations (IR) and European Union (EU) studies? In a groundbreaking new article, Professor Ian Manners argues that Ukraine serves as a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift—one that moves beyond traditional IR frameworks to embrace planetary politics. Published as the lead article in a speci
Published 20 February 2025 Associate Professor Magdalena Bexell, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors that are organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry. This industry links states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Employing concepts from organizational theory and the study
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2025-07-17
Published 24 February 2025 External Reviewer Associate Professor Marco Viera, University of Birmingham and now Doctor Maysam Behravesh. Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Political Psychology of Revisionist Behavior in World Politics: State Subjectivity, Ontological (In)Security, and Iranian Foreign Policy'. Congratulations Doctor Maysam! AbstractDriven by a core curio
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-17
Published 3 March 2025 Professor Ian Manners has received a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant to spend 2025 working at the University of Bristol to complete a book on The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics. The research book analyses the EU relations with the rest of the planet through from the end of the Cold War in 1990 until the end of the sabbatical in 2025.The foc
Published 5 March 2025 The journal Global Intellectual History has just published a forum on Jens Bartelson’s latest book Becoming International (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The forum has been edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen and features contributions by Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, Or Rosenboim, and Ayşe Zarakol. Here is the introduction:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forum-jens-bartelsons-becoming-international-global-intellectual-history - 2025-07-17
Published 10 March 2025 This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war. From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepa
Published 20 March 2025 This book explores how women in societies plagued by ethno-national conflict can help build peace and gender equality, even in places where deep divisions have existed for generations. It uses an approach called transversal politics to analyse how women from different communities in Northern Ireland work together across an ethno-national divide to build coalitions on shared
Published 9 April 2025 Pinar Dinc, Associate Professor and one of the editors of the book. The book ‘The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and Beyond’ explores the Republic of Turkey’s unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically analyse the broader historic
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-book-republic-turkey-and-its-unresolved-issues - 2025-07-17
Published 15 April 2025 Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between government ministers and NGOs. Their findings reveal striking inequalities in who gets access to political decision-makers. Our findings reveal stark inequalities in who gets t
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-gets-hearing-intersectionality-ngos-and-political-access-decision-makers - 2025-07-17
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 September 2019 CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". Dersim Anatolian High School in Ataturk Neighborhood of Tunceli: Naming, renaming, and contingent openings in Turkey The politics of pl
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 September 2019 CMES affiliated researcher Josepha Wessels will be presenting her work at the conference: "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring". The conference is hosted by the project Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europ
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 September 2019 CMES researcher Mohammed Almahfali, is presenting his work at the conference "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring" in Copenhagen. Photo: Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash Mohammed´s presentation: "Discourse of Yemeni TV broadcasters and the Dilemma of Regime C
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/discourse-yemeni-tv-broadcasters-and-dilemma-regime-criticism-2015-2019 - 2025-07-17
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 August 2019 A seminar at Malmö University, with Michael Degerald, Visiting Researcher, CMES. Heritage, archives, and state power. Digital traces of Iraq’s cultural and political history in state media and publications. Photo: Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash It will take place on Wednesday, September 4 at 10.15-
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 29 August 2019 Spyros Sofos, CMES Research Coordinator, is giving a lecture at UPF, The Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund, September 11 at 7 pm. In the morning of September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated attacks by al-Qaeda in the USA, killed 2,996 people and injured over double that number. 9/11 led to legisla
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 August 2019 The second edition of Syria Docdays will take place on 7 and 8 September at Panora Folkets bio in Malmö. Syrian Docdays in Malmö CMES affiliated researcher, Joshka Wessels from Malmö University, will give a book talk about her new book "Documenting Syria: filmmaking, video activism and revolution" at Fil
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-docdays-malmo-book-talk-joshka-wessels - 2025-07-17
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 23 August 2019 New article by CMES affiliated researchers Orwa Ajjoub and James Root. Salafi-Jihadis and white supremacists see the world in a way reminiscent of Samuel Huntington’s 1996 “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, which posited that in the post-Cold War era, world conflicts would emerge between “civilizations” ra
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/through-looking-glass-clash-civilizations-narrative-extremist-worldviews - 2025-07-17
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 22 August 2019 Would you like to examine the impact the September 11 terrorist attack has had on religious practice and on interpretations of religious records in Judaism, Christianity and Islam? And also participate in a study trip to Istanbul and Jerusalem? Religion, Heritage, and Generation - Conceptualizing Religio
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/religion-heritage-and-generation-conceptualizing-religion-after-911 - 2025-07-17
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 21 August 2019 This analysis examines the foreign policy features and domestic implications of British policy towards Iran between 1974 and 1976. Starting with the assumption that economic interests, as well as Cold War imperatives, shaped British policy towards Iran into one where human rights had no space, the conduc
By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 19 August 2019 CMES was well represented at the conference. One of the panels was "The Politics of Islam in the Middle East and Europe" and was presented by Demian Voksi, James Root and Orwa Ajjoub. It was moderated by Rola El-Husseini. The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies (NSMES) is an independent and non-pro
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nordic-society-middle-eastern-studies-nsmes-conference-helsinki - 2025-07-17
