“Swedes are reserved.” But not when it comes to combatting populism! For evidence of affective polarization at the elite level, check out this fantastic new article by Statsvetenskap Lund’s own Ph.D. student Esther Calvo, Hanna Bäck, and Royce Carroll !!

New vodcast with Dr. Ayhan Işık out now: “Paramilitary Groups: The Short History of Turkey’s Informal War” TurkeyBeyondBorders

Härliga bilder från Prideparaden i Lund i lördags 🏳️‍🌈 Universitetet bjöd in studenter och medarbetare till gemensam uppslutning bakom LU-flaggan ❤️ Foto: Johan Persson. #Pride #Lund apride #Lund

This Geopolitics article, through the concept of 'zozobra', analyzes the political, spatio-temporal & embodied dynamics farianas' reincorporation to explore this feeling of occupying a space ‘in-between’ war & ‘civilian society’
The word zozobra is a very complex concept🧵👇

Last Friday, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation titled ‘The Prohibitive Condition’! Faculty opponent Andreja Zevnik did an excellent job commenting on it. I’m still overwhelmed. You can read it here: portal.research.lu.se/sv/publication…

Tanker om oprustning og fred i Kristeligt Dagblad

Ole Elgström and Malena Rosén Sundström analyse the negotiation process which led to the resolution on Gender equality in EU’s foreign and security policy in the European Parliament in 2020, in International Negotiation.
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Idag presenterar Sveriges medborgarråd för klimatet sitt resultat! Statsvetaren Roger Hildingsson säger att medborgarråd kan komplettera den representativa demokratin som ett uttryck från ett tvärsnitt av helt vanliga svenskar. En form av viljeyttring.
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Calvo, Bäck & Carroll on pariah parties and changing elite rhetoric in the Swedish Riksdag. @hannaeback
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New chapter by Hebatalla Taha on Palestinians in Israeli international aid imaginaries in book edited by Dr. Alaa Tartir | د. علاء الترتير, Timothy Seidel and Tariq Dana طارق دعنا. Lund University SWEMENA Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies - NSMES Statsvetenskap Lund
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På måndag den 20 maj klockan 10:00-11:00 arrangeras en träff där Sveriges första nationella medborgarråd om klimatet (där bland andra Roger Hildingsson från Statsvetenskapliga institutionen medverkar) presenterar sina förslag för media och allmänhet.
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Caroline Karlsson has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Prohibitive Condition: The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders'. Congratulations!
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Isabel Bramsen har måttet stå på mål for kække kommentarer om sin ekspertise. Det ændrede sig med Ruslands invasion af Ukraine og krigen i Gaza. Mød kvinden, der insisterer på at tale om fred i en verden fyldt med krig og konflikt. Isabel Bramsen
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New special issue out on #spaceforpeace organized by stellar scholars Priscyll Anctil CéDé & lucky me & Johanna Mannergren have an article in it. Thanks

In #FirstView by Esther Mary L. Calvo (Lund University), Hanna Bäck, and Royce Carroll: 'Debating the Populist Pariah: Changing Party Dynamics and Elite Rhetoric in the Swedish Riksdag' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Ian Manners contributes to Journal of Common Market Studies' 20th anniversary symposium on Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics.
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I wrote a piece for The Conversation on why the Russians and others still use Morse code to this day. You may think you're not interested in Morse, but I dare say that most of you will be surprised to see just how clever and useful this old technology is.

theconversation.com/ukraine-war-wh…

First article merging my phd & post-doc research on farianas post-war political militancy is out in Geopolitics w/ a focus on the emotions & contradictions of feeling between 'two worlds'
COMUNERAS - Mujeres y Diversidades 🕊🌹 Försvarshögskolan Statsvetenskap Lund Annika Björkdahl
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Join us on 16 May for a research seminar with Lisa Strombom about agonistic memory-work in the aftermath of the Oslo Agreement. Welcome in person or register for a Zoom link: cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-…

🌸Colleagues at Lund University Statsvetenskap Lund, register now to join us! 🎨Priscyll Anctil will be back along with Zulay Rueda to lead us in an exciting workshop on graphic novels in research ✨