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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. INAUGURATION OF NEW PROFESSORS: Hanna Bäck has been promoted to full professor at the department and will take part in the inauguration ceremony today (16th October). Hanna Bäcks personal pageLearn more about the new professors (PDF) In Lund, the inauguration of new professors is a public ceremony presided by the vice
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-professor - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Our researchers Annica Kronsell (project leader) and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren are co-applicants in a project which has been granted 5 million (SEK) from VINNOVA. The project aims to study how different institutional frameworks, e.g. urban development and individuals’ habits, influence how people transport themselves in
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/5-million-vinnova-research-project - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck is one of three researchers who has received 6 million SEK in infrastructure funds for the RJ-infrastructure project "Party Government in Europe Database". The project will be located in Umeå where Professor Johan Hellström will lead the project together with Professor Torbjörn Bergman, but the project will
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/6-million-sek-project-infrastructure - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Magdalena Bexell, Catia Gregoratti, Kristina Jönsson, Anders Uhlin and Fariborz Zelli are part of a research programme led by Professor Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University, which has been awarded over 35 million SEK by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). The research project “Legitimacy in Global Governance” led by Profe
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/35-million-sek-project-legitimacy-global-governance - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: The recently concluded research programme Transdemos- Democracy Beyond the Nation State? has published a final report for Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). "Democracy Beyond the Nation State? Transnational Actors and Global Governance", abbreviated “Transdemos”, was a political science research
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/transdemos-difficulties-democracy-beyond-nation-state - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Erik Ringmar is presenting a paper on "Heidegger on Attention and the Moods of Modernity" at a workshop at Sussex University, Brighton, on 29th October. More information on: heideggerandtheglobal.wordpress.comErik RingmarThe workshop will bring together a range of scholars from International Relat
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rigmar-speaks-about-modernity-sussex - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sara Kalm has reviewed Antoine Pécoud’s Depoliticising Migration: Global Governance and International Migration Narratives (Palgrave, 2015). The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of migration governance, by exposing the ways in which international organizations tend to ”depoliticize” and neutralize the i
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-review-looks-study-migration-governance - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: The public event “Klimatförvirring” (Climate Confusion) with the aim of explaining the 2015 Paris Climate Conference COP21 was held at Malmö University yesterday (4/11). Ina Möller, Doctoral student at the Department of Political Science, was on the local expert panel in Malmö.Five speakers from t
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ina-moller-malmo-panel-about-climate-confusion - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kristina Jönsson and Magdalena Bexell have received 2,7 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council for their project Legitimation of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: The Cases of Ghana and Tanzania. Kristina JönssonMagdalena Bexell
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/27-million-sek-project-sustainable-development-goals-ghana-and-tanzania - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Karin Aggestam has authored the article ”Peace mediation and the minefield of international recognition games” published in the journal International Negotiation. Abstract:This article analyzes the intricate dynamics between international mediation and the quest for recognition in protracted
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-peace-mediation-and-international-recognition-games - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kurtis Boyer has established a new Open Access Journal on the Politics of Human-Animal Relations. Politics and Animals is a peer-reviewed, open access journal exploring the human-animal relationship from the vantage point of political science and political theory.Politics and Animals has an international editorial boa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-journal-politics-human-animal-relations - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Maysam Behravesh and Moira Nelson participated in the event Gender Studies Looking Forwards at the Lund Department of Gender Studies on Wednesday (4/11). The Gender Studies Symposium Gender Studies Looking Forwards – A new light on approaches to gender and feminist research invited over 20 researc
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/behravesh-and-nelson-gender-studies-looking-forwards - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Douglas Brommesson is one of the editors of the recently published anthology “Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges”. Besides Brommesson Martin Hall of the Political Science department also contributes with a chapter. The book explores the range and depth of work cur
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-and-hall-new-book-community-global-scale - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Johannes Stripple has published 'Transnational Adaptation Governance: An emerging fourth era of adaptation’ in the journal 'Global Environmental Change’ (Volume 35, November 2015). AbstractClimate change adaptation, which has previously been seen as a national and local matter, is today syste
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stripple-fourth-era-environmental-adaptation - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have been granted 3 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council Formas for a research project that will study the responsibility for the realization of the UN's new sustainable development goals 2015-2030. The project will compare how responsibilities are allocated when Sweden a
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/3-million-sek-project-responsibility-uns-new-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Ina Möller, PhD candidate Political Science, will be speaking after the documentary screening of Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything” at Doc Lounge in Malmö tomorrow evening (17/11). Ina Möllerhttps://www.facebook.com/events/463203910530932http://doclounge.se/calendar/this-changes-everything
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/moller-comments-changes-everything - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Visiting Professor Angela Oels is hosting one of the official side events for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference COP 21 on 1st December ”The importance of social science research for understanding climate change induced migration”. The event is organized by three universities: Lund, Lancaster and H
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/oels-speaks-paris-climate-conference - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond is the co-organiser of the international conference 'Popular Culture and World Politics - Worlding Popular Culture" that takes place at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and the Department of Politics and International Relation at the University of Westminster, 20–21 No
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-talks-about-popular-culture-and-world-politics-london - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has contributed to a report commissioned by the Norwegian Church Aid with a short article titled ”Still a progressive vanguard in development policy?”. The report, ”The End of Nordic Exceptionalism?”, includes overviews of trends in the development policies of the Nordic countrie
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-trends-development-policies-nordic-countries - 2026-05-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Fariborz Zelli is one of two editors of the newly released book Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics. Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics is a
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zelli-provides-pluralistic-knowledge-base-global-environmental-governance - 2026-05-25
