Global Politics and Security
The Programme for Global Politics and Security (GPS) is a thematic program that focuses on research and analysis of global developments. The global field is a constantly changing field of knowledge, marked by various trends and developments that sometimes stand in conflict with each other. The research within the program seeks to understand the global arena from different theoretical perspectives and includes a number of empirical fields. A common thread to the research is that it is problem-focused and aims to produce new empirical knowledge and theoretical development.
FOCUS AREAS
Climate, energy and international politics
Climate change is one of the biggest social challenges of our time, the consequences of which are a mounting challenge for political systems from local to global level. A key question is what capacity socities and institutions have to face these challenges, and how they can be shaped to achieve the societal transition that has been put forward in the global frameworks the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement. Within the framework of the focus area, we examine opportunities and limitations for international coalitions to increase ambition in international cooperation and achieve carbon neutrality.
Russia's full-scale, unlawful invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shook an already strained global system. The perceived resurgence of the nuclear threat and increased militarization are shaping both our immediate neighbourhood and the wider international context. Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine has brought Sweden to NATO membership, where our security policy position is changing with an increasingly militarized Europe. This focus area therefore contributes to deepening our knowledge of global security policy, especially related to NATO, nuclear weapons, disarmament and peacebuilding.
In addition to our two main areas of research, we collaborate with associated researchers and other actors on issues of borders and migration, gender and rights, populism and the memory politics. These are crucial issues in global politics and security today, as social and political conflicts between different value systems and norms become increasingly salient. Democratic values are threatened by right-wing populist and nationalist movements, the global power order is disrupted by new geopolitical actors and conflicts, international climate and environmental cooperation is thwarted, and the rights of marginalized groups are challenged by regressive movements.
