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NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic contributed with a chapter on Gender and Transitional Justice, and one chapter with Susanne Buckley-Zistel on Memorials and Transitional Justice in the book An Introduction to Transitional Justice edited by Olivera Simic. Learn more about the book on routledge.comAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gender-and-transitional-justice - 2025-11-05

Linda Nyberg defended her dissertation "Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid Policy" today, 21st April at 10:15 am in the Eden auditorium, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Discussant was Ben Rosamond from Copenhagen University.Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid PolicyLinda Nyberg's personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/linda-nyberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article "Peacekeeping deployment abroad and the self-perceptions of the effect on career advancement, status and reintegration” published in print a few weeks ago (published online in August). Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-happens-military-careers-un-soldiers-after-their-un-service - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article ”The civilised Self and the barbaric Other: ex-rebels making sense of sexual violence in the DR Congo” which was recently published online. Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-ex-rebels-make-sense-sexual-violence - 2025-11-05

OUTREACH: Today, 26th April, Niklas Altermark will participate in the parliamentary hearing on personal assistance. Also participating are representatives of the disability movement, other researchers from a variety of disciplines and a number of people heavily involved when personal assistance was introduced. The purpose of the event is to highlight personal assistance and allow assistance users,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-parliamentary-seminar-personal-assistance - 2025-11-05

Annika Björkdahl was invited to give a talk entitled ”Peace and the Politics of Memory” at St. Andrews University in Scotland on Monday the 17th April at the Arts Lecture Theatre. The talk was part of the School of International Relations, IR Monday Seminar Series.St. Andrews University's websiteAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the department's website.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gave-talk-scotland-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published a paper explaining election fraud historically in the case of Sweden, drawing on original data from second-instance election petitions filed in 1719–1908, "Partisanship and Unreformed Bureaucracy: The Drivers of Election Fraud in Sweden, 1719-1908". These petitions reveal systematic procedural violations committed by local election officials towa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-eighteenth-century-election-fraud-sweden - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Roxanna Sjöstedt has published the article "Securitization and Foreign Policy Analysis", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Sjöstedt describes and reviews in this article the central assumptions of securitization theory in order to capture its applicability to the study of foreign policy. AbstractSince it was launched in the mid-1990s, the concept of securitizat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-11-05

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Per Andersson's thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" was held today, Friday 5th May, at 3:15 pm in Eden's lobby.  The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should be given the chance to read it in advance and then ask questions at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anderssons-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén has written the article "The World Turned Away From Burundi, but Its Crisis Is Getting Worse” in World Politics Review. Learn more on worldpoliticsreview.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture and military intervention in Africa. Nina Wilén is currently a guest researcher at the department, and is usually e

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/world-turns-away-burundi-crisis-worsens - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Government investigations rely on unsubstantiated evidence in reports on extensive cheating in welfare systems for people with disabilities. Both current and former governments have based their assistance policies on public commissions that lack scientific basis. This is shown in a new report by political scientists Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsson.Niklas Altermark's p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-report-unreliable-evidence-behind-accusations-cheating-personal-assistance - 2025-11-05

OUTREACH: Karin Aggestam gave a talk on gender and peace negotiations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday 10th May. "Monash Gender, Peace & Security is a group of policy and community engaged scholars whose research is focused in the field of gender, peace and security. We seek to use our research to inform scholarly debate, policy development and implementation, public unders

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-gender-and-peace-negotiations-monash-university-0 - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article "Institutional stepping stones for democracy: how and why multipartyism enhances democratic change" which presents evidence in support of a more positive understanding of multipartyism and democracy. AbstractScholars of electoral authoritarianism and comparative institutions have emphasized how authoritarian regimes implement multipar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-even-fake-elections-can-hasten-democratic-change - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Niklas Altermark’s article 'The Post-Institutional Era: Visions of History in Research on Intellectual Disability' is included in the 30 year anniversary issue of the leading disability studies journal Disability & Society. AbstractIn this article, I address how the history of intellectual disability politics is made sense of in social scientific research and popular disc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/glancing-back-intellectual-disability-research - 2025-11-05

Per Andersson defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" on 19th May at 10 o'clock in Hornbergssalen, Kulturen, Lund. External reviewer: Reader Lucas Leeman, Department of Government, University os Essex, UK."Essays on the Politics of Taxation"Per Andersson's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/andersson-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Stephanie Kappler published the book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation. Peace, Space and Place with Routledge. The book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analyzing the links between peacebuilding agency, space and place. It focuses on case studies from Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-investigates-peacebuilding - 2025-11-05

OUTREACH. Fabio Cristiano gave a talk at the conference “Fear and Loathing of the Online Self” in Rome, featuring Franco Bifo Berardi, Jodi Dean, Wendy Chun, Gabriella Coleman, and many others. More info: http://networkcultures.org/online-self/program/.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cristiano-online-conference - 2025-11-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Kurtis Boyer has a new chapter entitled: "Saving the Polar Bear and Other Objects" published in the new anthology : "Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory" from the University of Alaska Press. Link to PublisherLink to Kurtis Boyer's Personal Page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/boyer-affect-and-politics-arctic-wildlife-protection - 2025-11-05

Hanna Bäck has published the article “Representing the Region on the Floor: Socioeconomic Characteristics of Electoral Districts and Legislative Speechmaking”. The article which focuses on how representatives from different regions participate in parliamentary debates.Read full articleHanna Bäck's personal webpage

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-representation-and-parliamentary-debates - 2025-11-05

OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell gave a number of papers at the ECPR conference “European Conference on Politics and Gender” in Lausanne, Switzerland 8-11 June. Annika Bergman Rosamond was also an invited speaker on the final plenary roundtable  'Gender at the Border: the Refugee Crisis in Europe’, see more: https://ecpr.eu/Events/PanelDetails.aspx?PanelID=7444&EventID=114Anni

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/plenary-roundtable-and-papers-ecpr-conference - 2025-11-05