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Here you can register for the inauguration of Victoria Basham as the 2026 Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor and Roland Bleiker as the 2026 Olof Palme Visiting Professor, on 6 May at 15:00 to 17:30...

Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home

Kidnapping politics: The sorcerer’s apprentice effect

Capturing the minds: The role of child deportation in maintaining Russian authority over Ukraine’s occupied territories

Political captives in East Asia: Thought reform and national security

Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security

How anger and contempt affect hostage recovery policy: Understanding Israel’s response to Gaza

Between power and powerlessness: Families and politicised captivity

Between power and powerlessness: Families and politicised captivity

Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security

Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security

Deterrence through captivity: China’s use of detention to dissuade threats to regime security

The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order - Volume 79 Issue S1

Historical memory is used by Chinese and Japanese politicians for their agendas, making it hard to forgive and forget. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Karl Gustafsson and Linus Hagström have been awarded the European Political Science journal's Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize for the best academic article of 2024.

Anxiety is widespread in academia, among faculty members and students. However, anxiety is not unequivocally a negative emotion. Karl Gustafsson and Linus Hagström argue that it can also be a creative...

European Consortium for Political Research

Congratulations to Karl Gustafsson and Linus Hagström of the Swedish Defence University

European Consortium for Political Research

In this forum, four authors discuss Charlotte Epstein’s book Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics published in 2021. After havi...

Why, despite its longstanding identity as a non-aligned country, did Sweden apply for NATO membership in May 2022? Did this decision not fundamentally challenge Swedish ontological security? Conversel...

Research problems are crucial in the sense that they provide new research with purpose and justification. So why, despite the abundance of guidance available from an extensive methods literature, do g...

Research problems are crucial in the sense that they provide new research with purpose and justification. So why, despite the abundance of guidance available from an extensive methods literature, do g...

Abstract. Traditionally used within the context of hard military power in interstate relations, the concept of deterrence has been progressively extended to non