The SCGG is a founding member of the new Global Governance Research Centre Consortium (GGRCC) – an international network of research centers on global governance. SCGG co-directors Lisa Dellmuth and Jonas Tallberg have been closely involved in developing this new initiative, which will be internally launched on June 8.
On May 6, Professor Mark Rhinard helped inaugurate the University of Helsinki’s new Societal Security Hub, an interdisciplinary initiative bringing together academic, public, private, and civil society actors.
A United Nations fund designed to release emergency aid when disasters strike does more than pay for immediate relief — it also tends to prompt individual governments to follow suit and direct aid to underfunded emergencies, according to new research by Lisa Dellmuth, a professor of International Relations at Stockholm University affiliated with the SCGG.
The Swedish government on Thursday (May 21, 2026) appointed law professor Mark Klamberg at Stockholm University, as member to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague — an institution whose most consequential function today is nominating judges to the world’s highest court.
In a new paper published in the Journal of European Public Policy Antoinette Scherz, Christophe Hillion and Tommaso Pavone examine the challenges of democratic restoration after backsliding, with a particular focus on Poland.
OP-ED. The U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran constitute a breach of the most fundamental rule in public international law: the prohibition on using military force against another state. Sweden’s response has been slow and cautious, and at the same time the prime minister and deputy prime minister play down international law as a “seminar issue.”
"I just won the 2025 Frank Cass Prize for the best young scholar article on 'Democratization'," Jonas Schmid told the SCGG website on Tuesday, adding that it was for his article about electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies.
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Ten years ago, an Austrian doctoral student in New York suggested to a world-renowned professor that she wanted to study the idea of men feeling victimized and disadvantaged by women's progress. But her idea was initially met with skepticism.
Political scientists Ludvig Norman and co-editor Richard Ned Lebow have been awarded the Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations by the International Studies Association (ISA) for the anthology Weimar's Long Shadow.
Two decades after Sweden's referendum on the euro, the issue has resurfaced, following the release of a new inquiry led by economist Lars Calmfors at the turn of the year. Support for adopting the common currency has risen since 2022, according to the business news outlet EFN.
"We hope our findings can inspire responsible business conduct in the context of climate adaptation", says professor Lisa Dellmuth, SCGG, part of the Mistra Mineral Governance research program. Together with colleague Associate Professor Maria-Therese Gustafsson, she has written a new book on how companies can adapt to climate change — and what responsible business conduct looks like in practice.
Lisa Dellmuth, Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University, recently spoke before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Swedish Parliament on how to strengthen global governance amid rising geopolitical tensions — from Arctic security to the future of multilateral cooperation.
