This dissertation explores how the economic decline of fossil and nuclear industries is resisted through new ways of representing them as necessary. It argues that energy policy is dominated by experts and elites, and studies the discourse within these circles. Using poststructural policy analysis, the thesis studies three cases in three articles through an empirical material of 56 elite interviews and 91 policy documents. The cases consist of political decisions to manage the decline of peat in Finland, oil shale in Estonia, and nuclear power in Sweden. The cases are compared in this book. The thesis contributes to scholarship on energy security, energy transitions, and neoliberalism, and argues for an increased dialogue between these literatures.
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Ninna Mörner
October 20, 2026
This dissertation examines the architectural renewal of Moscow during the 2010s as the dream of the world’s political, economic, technological, and aesthetic progress after the end of the Cold War. The study places particular emphasis on the role that digitalization and digital technologies have played in Moscow’s renewal, as well as on the actors within the sphere of global architecture who have contributed to sustaining this dream by participating in the creation of what was envisioned as a more beautiful, smarter, and more comfortable Moscow.
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Ninna Mörner
October 20, 2026
Martin Kragh died on 23 July 2026, at the age of 45. His death is a profound loss to Swedish scholarship on Russia and Eastern Europe, and to all those who valued his ability to make history and international affairs understandable, relevant and deeply human.
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Joakim Ekman
September 11, 2026
Abstract [en] This dissertation, Care to Live, offers an in-depth ethnographic study of well-educated single mothers navigating everyday life in Kaunas, […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Places of Remembrance examines the cultural functions served by the Hungarian (1909–), Polish (1932–), and Czech-Slovak (1926–) pavilions in the Venice […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Abstract [en] This thesis breaks with tradition by reading Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte as a work of philosophy. Rather than the mere re-telling […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Abstract [en] This thesis investigates contemporary practices focused on facilitating the integration of those who, for various reasons, are perceived […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Kristian Gerner (b. 1942), esteemed historian and emeritus professor of history at Lund University, passed away on April 2, 2026, in Lund, Sweden, at the age of 83. His voice in Sweden’s public and academic life will be greatly missed.
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Joakim Ekman
April 6, 2026
An important goal for the new series is to create a space where scholars from different disciplines can engage with one another. Research on Belarus is often dispersed across various fields — political science, history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies — and the series aims to bring these perspectives into dialogue.
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Victoria Leukavets
March 16, 2026
Postcolonial scholarship has made a significant contribution by highlighting and critically assessing the liminal, inbetween positionality of Eastern Europe, which has contributed to the neglect of voices and experiences from the region. Discourses that construct and reproduce the notion of Eastern Europe “catching up” have been examined in historical, anthropological, and sociological contexts, as well as across various fields, including international relations, memory studies, democratization, and European integration. This theme section explores some of these intricacies through the case studies of Poland, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia.
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Lelde Luika
December 18, 2025
Issue 2026, 3-4: 
Baltic Worlds covers; the Baltic Sea Region, Eastern Europe, Russia, CentralAsia, Caucasus and the Balkan area.