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Department of Global Political Studies
Political Studies
The environment at the department is characterised by global perspectives and internationalisation. The main focus of our research is on global processes and their implications for power, security, justice and development. We provide courses and study programmes in both Swedish and English and our students come from all over the world.
Education in Global Political Studies
Courses and study programmes at the Department of Global Political Studies are interdisciplinary and several are taught in English. We offer several bachelor’s programmes and master's programmes, as well as a wide range of freestanding courses. Search our courses in the course catalogue.
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Programmes and courses
International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Master's Programme (One-Year)
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Programmes and courses
Political Science: Global Politics, Master’s Programme (Two-year)
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Programmes and courses
Political Science: Global Politics and Societal Change, Master’s Programme (One-Year)
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Programmes and courses
International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
The research environment at GPS
Global Political Studies is an interdisciplinary department with research on politics, power relations and the construction of identity in local, national, international and global contexts. We focus on organisations, governance, policy instruments and decision-making processes, and also studies of international migration and migration-related social issues.
Research subjects
Research projects
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Staff
Caroline Adolfsson - Doctoral student
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Staff
Michel Anderlini - Doctoral student
michel-vincent.anderlini@mau.se -
PBStaff
Patrik Baard - Postdoc
patrik.baard@mau.se -
Staff
Nick Baigent - Doctoral student
nick.baigent@mau.se -
Staff
Beint Magnus Aamodt Bentsen - Doctoral student
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Staff
Christofer Berglund - Senior lecturer
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
Staff
Pieter Bevelander - Professor
pieter.bevelander@mau.se -
Staff
Sarah Bodelson - Doctoral student
sarah.bodelson@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Brännmark - Senior lecturer
johan.brannmark@mau.se -
IDStaff
Inge Dahlstedt - Senior lecturer
inge.dahlstedt@mau.se -
Staff
Daniela Debono - Senior lecturer
daniela.debono@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Ekstedt - Doctoral student
johan.ekstedt@mau.se -
HEStaff
Henrik Emilsson - Researcher
henrik.emilsson@mau.se -
MEStaff
Magnus Ericson - Head of department/Senior lecturer
magnus.ericson@mau.se -
IEStaff
Inge Eriksson - Lecturer
inge.eriksson@mau.se -
CFStaff
Christian Fernandez - Senior lecturer
christian.fernandez@mau.se -
Staff
Katrine Gotfredsen - Senior lecturer
katrine.gotfredsen@mau.se -
Staff
Hilda Gustafsson - Doctoral student
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
PHStaff
Patrik Hall - Professor
patrik.hall@mau.se -
PHStaff
Peter Hallberg - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
peter.hallberg@mau.se -
Staff
Christina Hansen - Project researcher
christina.hansen@mau.se -
CHStaff
Cecilia Hansson - Lecturer
cecilia.hansson@mau.se -
Staff
Astrid Hedin - Senior lecturer
astrid.hedin@mau.se -
AHStaff
Anders Hellström - Senior lecturer
anders.hellstrom@mau.se -
Staff
Derek Stanford Hutcheson - Professor
derek.hutcheson@mau.se -
Staff
Calle Håkansson - Doctoral student
calle.hakansson@mau.se -
Staff
Nahikari Irastorza - Reserach fellow
nahikari.irastorza@mau.se -
MIStaff
Malin Isaksson - Senior lecturer
malin.isaksson@mau.se -
Staff
Tina Gudrun Jensen - Researcher
tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se -
CJStaff
Christina Johansson - Senior lecturer
christina.johansson@mau.se -
KJStaff
Kristin Järvstad - Associate Professor
kristin.jarvstad@mau.se -
AKStaff
Ane Kirkegaard - Senior lecturer
ane.kirkegaard@mau.se -
MKStaff
Manana Kock Kobaidze - Senior lecturer
manana.kock.kobaidze@mau.se -
Staff
Jacob Lind - Project researcher
jacob.lind@mau.se -
FLStaff
Fredrik Lindström - Senior lecturer
fredrik.lindstrom@mau.se -
Staff
Victor Lundberg - Senior lecturer
victor.lundberg@mau.se -
GMStaff
Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir - Senior lecturer
gunnhildur.lily.magnusdottir@mau.se -
Staff
Kamal Makili-Aliyev - Senior lecturer
kamal.makili-aliyev@mau.se -
SMStaff
Stephen Marr - Senior lecturer
stephen.marr@mau.se -
MMStaff
Malin Mc Glinn - Senior lecturer
malin.mcglinn@mau.se -
SMStaff
Scott Mciver - Senior lecturer
scott.mciver@mau.se -
AMStaff
Anders Melin - Senior lecturer
anders.melin@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Modée - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
johan.modee@mau.se -
TNStaff
Tom Nilsson - Senior lecturer
tom.nilsson@mau.se -
Staff
Sayaka Osanami Törngren - Associate Professor
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Staff
Bo Petersson - Professor
bo.petersson@mau.se -
JPStaff
Jonna Pettersson - Postdoc
jonna.pettersson@mau.se -
MPStaff
Margareta Popoola - Senior lecturer
margareta.popoola@mau.se -
Staff
Maja Povrzanovic Frykman - Professor
maja.frykman@mau.se -
Staff
Haodong Qi - Project researcher
haodong.qi@mau.se -
ARStaff
Anne Sofie Roald - Professor
annesofie.roald@mau.se -
Staff
Mikael Spång - Professor
mikael.spang@mau.se -
ISStaff
Isobel Squire - Doctoral student
isobel.squire@mau.se -
KSStaff
Kristian Steiner - Senior lecturer
kristian.steiner@mau.se -
MSStaff
Michael Strange - Senior lecturer
michael.strange@mau.se -
Staff
Brigitte Suter - Associate Professor
brigitte.suter@mau.se -
ESStaff
Erika Svedberg - Senior lecturer
erika.svedberg@mau.se -
Staff
Rebecka Söderberg - Doctoral student
rebecka.soderberg@mau.se -
NTStaff
Nazem Tahvilzadeh - Senior lecturer
nazem.tahvilzadeh@mau.se -
Staff
Revaz Tchantouria - Senior lecturer
revaz.tchantouria@mau.se -
JTStaff
Jason Tucker - Project researcher
jason.tucker@mau.se -
Staff
Karina Vamling - Professor
karina.vamling@mau.se -
Staff
Ulrika Waaranperä - Postdoc
ulrika.waaranpera@mau.se -
Staff
Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu - Doctoral student
rahel-weldeab.sebhatu@mau.se -
BWStaff
Berit Wigerfelt - Associate Professor
berit.wigerfelt@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Wigerfelt-Svensson - Associate Professor
anders.wigerfelt@mau.se -
Staff
Eline Wærp - Doctoral student
eline.waerp@mau.se -
JÅStaff
John H. S. Åberg - Senior lecturer
john.aberg@mau.se
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2021 | Article in journal
Knowledge, participation, and the future
Patrik Baard
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2021 | Chapter in book
Fundamental challenges for rights of nature
Patrik Baard
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2021 | Book
Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States
Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Annica Kronsell
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2021 | Chapter in book
Gender, Intersectionality and Institutions
Annica Kronsell, Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir
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2021 | Chapter in book
Moving forward: Making equality, equity, and social justice central
Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Annica Kronsell
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2021 | Report
Energiscenarier och rättvisa
Anders Melin, Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Patrik Baard
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2021 | Article in journal
Intersectionality and climate policy-making
Benedict Singleton, Nanna Rask, Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, Annica Kronsell
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2021 | Article in journal
The European Commission’s new role in EU security and defence cooperation
Calle Håkansson
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2021 | Article in journal
Finding its way in EU security and defence cooperation
Calle Håkansson
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2021 | Report
Norms and Values in Refugee Resettlement
Franziska Böhm, Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy, Brigitte Suter
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Research project
PHED - Precision Health and Everyday Democracy
michael.strange@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Everyday bordering and border-crossing solidarities for reproductive justice: Contestations and transnational connections in the organising...
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
'You're not Swedish Swedish': Inclusion and belongingness within Sweden
caroline.adolfsson@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Damming Georgia: Hydro-power development in Georgia and its international, national, and local repercussions
nick.baigent@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
The mundane face of Europeanization: norm implementation and epistemic communities in Georgia 2012-2020
michel-vincent.anderlini@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Decolonizing Diplomacy: Negotiating Development Cooperation between African states and the European Union
rahel-weldeab.sebhatu@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Understanding the evolution of the EU in security and defence - Institutions, geopolitics and actors
calle.hakansson@mau.se -
Research project
Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from a whole of community perspective (Whole-COMM)
nahikari.irastorza@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Diffusion of 'gender ideology' in Hungary and Poland
isobel.squire@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Waiting for family reunification
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
Research project
Post-Soviet Conflicts, International Law and Security Forum
kamal.makili-aliyev@mau.se -
Research project
Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
maja.frykman@mau.se -
Research project
AI and the everyday political-economy of global health
michael.strange@mau.se -
Research project
EUscepticOBS: analysing Euroscepticism, informing citizens and encouraging debates (Observe)
anders.hellstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara
katrine.gotfredsen@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
(De)securitization, Crisis and Humanitarianism? Mapping the Field of EU Border Management and the Production of Borders
eline.waerp@mau.se -
Research project
Legitimacy, urban planning and sustainability in Russia and Scandinavia (LUPSRUSS-2)
derek.hutcheson@mau.se -
Research project
MIMY - Migrant Youth Integration & Empowerment
henrik.emilsson@mau.se -
Research project
A comparative examination of claims making on migration in Sweden and Switzerland
anders.hellstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective - HumMingBird
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Research project
NoVaMigra – Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis
brigitte.suter@mau.se -
Research project
Utilizing situated knowledge: social investments as instruments for local government and organization?
patrik.hall@mau.se -
Research project
TiMS: The role of tourism in multicultural societies - adding to stereotypes or contributing to diversity?
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project
SEGMIX – Governance and lived experiences of urban diversity in SEGregated and MIXed neighbourhoods
erica.righard@mau.se -
Research project
Just Fossil-free Fuels: Can we equitably manage biofuels?
gunnhildur.lily.magnusdottir@mau.se -
Research project
NIEM: The National Integration Evaluation Mechanism
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project
Intersectionality and Climate Policy Making: Ways Forward to a Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Welfare State
gunnhildur.lily.magnusdottir@mau.se -
Research project
Forced displacement and refugee-host community solidarity (FOCUS)
nahikari.irastorza@mau.se -
Research project
Serving the nation? Preparedness, welfare state, gender, and national identity in 1940s Swedish fiction
kristin.jarvstad@mau.se -
Research project
Bureaucratisation of public organisations? A comparative study of organisational professionals in Sweden and New Zealand
patrik.hall@mau.se
Global Politics seminars
Spring 2021
Usually the Global Politics seminars are held Wednesdays at 13.15-15.00 in the seminar room on the 9th floor of Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, but due to the Covid-19 situation the seminars are held online via zoom (contact Johan Brännmark for details).
- 3 March
Structural injustice as distributive
Johan Brännmark, Associate Professor, Malmö University - 24 March
50% seminar
Michel Anderlini, PhD student, Malmö University - 14 April
Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination: perceptions of self-determination among the Sámi electorate in Sweden
Ulf Mörkenstam, Associate Professor, Stockholm University - 21 April
DIY urbanism and everyday practices of sustainability in Detroit: Lessons from urban Africa in America's ‘comeback’ city
Steve Marr, Senior Lecturer, Malmö University - 5 May
The multi-level political economy of AI in Global Health
Michael Strange, Associate Professor, Malmö university - 12 May
(Trans)nationalism in 1940s Swedish fiction
Kristin Järvstad, Associate Professor, Malmö University - 19 May
The diffusion of ‘gender ideology’ in Hungary and Poland
Isobel Squire, PhD student, Malmö University - 26 May
The Putin predicament
Bo Petersson, Professor, Malmö University
More about our research
Third-cycle education
We offer degrees at third-cycle level in the subjects of Global Politics and International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER).
Contact us
Head of Department
Heads of units
Johan Modée
Brigitte Suter
Peter Hallberg
Chairperson of the Study Programmes Board
Research coordinator
Director of third cycle education
Chairperson of the Research and supervising committee
Department administration and service (not student administration)
Anna Andrén
Martin Gagner
Frida Hallqvist
Do you have questions concerning your application, eligibility or the selection process?
Contact the Admission Office via admissions@mau.se or telephone number +46 40 665 75 00.
For study administrative questions
contact the study administrators at gpsstudent@mau.se
For study and career counselling
contact the study and careers advisors at gpsstudyguidance@mau.se
Drop-in hours online with study- and careers advisers at GPS – Thursdays between
13 and 15. Link to the drop-in:
https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/63496131797 (same link every week)
If you are looking for a contact details for an education, see the respective education.