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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
Haodong Qi - Project researcher
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Eline Wærp - Doctoral student
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Staff
Jacob Lind - Project researcher
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Hilda Gustafsson - Doctoral student
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
PBStaff
Patrik Baard - Postdoc
patrik.baard@mau.se -
Staff
Sarah Bodelson - Doctoral student
sarah.bodelson@mau.se -
MMStaff
Malin Mc Glinn - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Nahikari Irastorza - Reserach fellow
nahikari.irastorza@mau.se -
ISStaff
Isobel Squire - Doctoral student
isobel.squire@mau.se -
CHStaff
Cecilia Hansson - Lecturer
cecilia.hansson@mau.se -
Staff
Rebecka Söderberg - Doctoral student
rebecka.soderberg@mau.se -
Staff
Michel Anderlini - Doctoral student
michel-vincent.anderlini@mau.se -
NBStaff
Nick Baigent - Doctoral student
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JPStaff
Jonna Pettersson - Postdoc
jonna.pettersson@mau.se -
Staff
Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu - Doctoral student
rahel-weldeab.sebhatu@mau.se -
Staff
Calle Håkansson - Doctoral student
calle.hakansson@mau.se -
JTStaff
Jason Tucker - Senior lecturer
jason.tucker@mau.se -
Staff
Tina Gudrun Jensen - Researcher
tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Ekstedt - Doctoral student
johan.ekstedt@mau.se -
Staff
Caroline Adolfsson - Doctoral student
caroline.adolfsson@mau.se -
Staff
Christofer Berglund - Senior lecturer
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
Staff
Karina Vamling - Professor
karina.vamling@mau.se -
PHStaff
Patrik Hall - Professor
patrik.hall@mau.se -
Staff
Victor Lundberg - Senior lecturer
victor.lundberg@mau.se -
CJStaff
Christina Johansson - Senior lecturer
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KJStaff
Kristin Järvstad - Associate Professor
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Staff
Johan Modée - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Staff
Bo Petersson - Professor
bo.petersson@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Wigerfelt-Svensson - Associate Professor
anders.wigerfelt@mau.se -
MPStaff
Margareta Popoola - Senior lecturer
margareta.popoola@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Brännmark - Senior lecturer
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BWStaff
Berit Wigerfelt - Associate Professor
berit.wigerfelt@mau.se -
IDStaff
Inge Dahlstedt - Senior lecturer
inge.dahlstedt@mau.se -
Staff
Brigitte Suter - Associate Professor
brigitte.suter@mau.se -
HEStaff
Henrik Emilsson - Researcher
henrik.emilsson@mau.se -
Staff
Daniela Debono - Senior lecturer
daniela.debono@mau.se -
Staff
Mikael Spång - Professor
mikael.spang@mau.se -
Staff
Pieter Bevelander - Professor
pieter.bevelander@mau.se -
Staff
Maja Povrzanovic Frykman - Professor
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MEStaff
Magnus Ericson - Head of department/Senior lecturer
magnus.ericson@mau.se -
ARStaff
Anne Sofie Roald - Professor
annesofie.roald@mau.se -
Staff
Katrine Gotfredsen - Senior lecturer
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MKStaff
Manana Kock Kobaidze - Senior lecturer
manana.kock.kobaidze@mau.se -
RTStaff
Revaz Tchantouria - Senior lecturer
revaz.tchantouria@mau.se -
AKStaff
Ane Kirkegaard - Senior lecturer
ane.kirkegaard@mau.se -
Staff
Derek Stanford Hutcheson - Senior lecturer
derek.hutcheson@mau.se -
SMStaff
Stephen Marr - Senior lecturer
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KSStaff
Kristian Steiner - Senior lecturer
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MIStaff
Malin Isaksson - Senior lecturer
malin.isaksson@mau.se -
IEStaff
Inge Eriksson - Lecturer
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FLStaff
Fredrik Lindström - Senior lecturer
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JÅStaff
John H. S. Åberg - Senior lecturer
john.aberg@mau.se -
AMStaff
Anders Melin - Senior lecturer
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TNStaff
Tom Nilsson - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Astrid Hedin - Senior lecturer
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AHStaff
Anders Hellström - Senior lecturer
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CFStaff
Christian Fernandez - Senior lecturer
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SOStaff
Sayaka Osanami Törngren - Associate Professor
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Beint Magnus Aamodt Bentsen - Doctoral student
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PHStaff
Peter Hallberg - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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SMStaff
Scott Mciver - Senior lecturer
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GMStaff
Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir - Senior lecturer
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MSStaff
Michael Strange - Senior lecturer
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ESStaff
Erika Svedberg - Senior lecturer
erika.svedberg@mau.se
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2021 | Report
One size fits all?
Pieter Bevelander, Henrik Emilsson
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2021 | Article in journal
Integration policy and refugees' economic performance
Haodong Qi, Nahikari Irastorza, Henrik Emilsson, Pieter Bevelander
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2021 | Chapter in book
Applying postcolonial approaches to studies of Africa-EU relations
Rahel W. Sebhatu
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2021 | Chapter in book
Evidence-Based Policymaking under Exceptional Circumstances
Johan Brännmark
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2021 | Article in journal
Dekolonialt socialt arbete
Paula Mulinari, Nazem Tahvilzadeh, Lisa Kings
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2021 | Article in journal
Leave or remain?
Eugenia Markova, Russell King
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2021 | Chapter in book
Soviet, national, local?
Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen
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2020 | Article, book review
Book review: <em>At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean,</em> Mainwaring (2019)
Eline Wærp
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2020 | Chapter in book
Oombedda hälsoråd
Johan Brännmark
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2020 | Report
Valuing Gender Equality: Ideas, Practices and Actors in Everyday Integration Work
Brigitte Suter, Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy, Franziska Böhm
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Understanding the evolution of the EU in security and defence - Institutions, geopolitics and actors
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PHED - Precision Health and Everyday Democracy
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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
Exploring the diffusion of 'Gender Ideology' in global politics
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Decolonizing Diplomacy: Negotiating Development Cooperation between African states and the European Union
rahel-weldeab.sebhatu@mau.se -
Research project
Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from a whole of community perspective (Whole-COMM)
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Research project
Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
(De)securitization, Crisis and Humanitarianism? Mapping the Field of EU Border Management and the Production of Borders
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Research project
AI and the everyday political-economy of global health
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Research project
Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara
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Research project
Legitimacy, urban planning and sustainability in Russia and Scandinavia (LUPSRUSS-2)
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Research project
EUscepticOBS: analysing Euroscepticism, informing citizens and encouraging debates (Observe)
anders.hellstrom@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
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Research project
Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective - HumMingBird
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Research project
Utilizing situated knowledge: social investments as instruments for local government and organization?
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Just Fossil-free Fuels: Can we equitably manage biofuels?
gunnhildur.lily.magnusdottir@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
Intersectionality and Climate Policy Making: Ways Forward to a Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Welfare State
gunnhildur.lily.magnusdottir@mau.se -
Research project
NoVaMigra – Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis
brigitte.suter@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 -
Research project
NIEM: The National Integration Evaluation Mechanism
sayaka.torngren@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).
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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.