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Expert evaluation gives high marks to the Department’s Research

A major research evaluation undertaken by Uppsala University gives high marks to the research at the Department. The evaluation, known as Quality and Renewal 2011 (KoF11), comprised two different parts. Firstly, a peer-review process, conducted by distinguished scholars of the international research community. Secondly, a bibliometric study of publications in the period 2007–2010.

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Articles by researchers at the Department since 2007 till today are listed below. For all publications please see the online catalog DiVA.

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  • Albin, C. (2012). Improving the effectiveness of multilateral trade negotiations:  A synopsis. International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, New york. 17(1) [More information]
  • Albin, C., Druckman, D. (2012). Equality matters:  Negotiating an end to civil wars. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Sage Publications. 56(2): 155-182 [More information]
  • Albin, C., Young, A. (2012). Setting the Table for Success - or Failure?  Agenda Management in the WTO. International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, New york. 17(1) [More information]
  • Haldén, P. (2012). A Call for Hermeneutical Perspectives on Climate Change and Conflict: The Case of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Journal of International Relations and Development, 15(1): 1-30 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Orjuela, C. (2012). Hybrid Peace Governance and Illiberal Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka. Global Governance, 18(1): 89-104 [DOI] [More information]
  • Kivimaki, T. (2012). Democracy, Autocrats and US Policies In the Middle East. Middle East Policy, 19(1): 64-71 [DOI] [More information]
  • Kreutz, J. (2012). From Tremors to Talks: Do Natural Disasters Produce Ripe Moments for Resolving Separatist Conflicts?. International Interactions, 38(5) In press. [More information]
  • Sundberg, R., Eck, K., Kreutz, J. (2012). Introducing the UCDP Non-State Conflict Dataset. Journal of Peace Research, 49(2): 351-362 [DOI] [More information]
  • Swain, A. (2012). Global Climate Change and Challenges for International River Agreements. International Journal of Sustainable Society, 4(1 & 2): 72-87 [More information]
  • Albin, C., Druckman, D. (2011). Distributive justice and the durability of peace agreements. Review of International Studies, Cambridge University Press. 37(3): 1137-1168 [DOI] [More information]
  • Angstrom, J. (2011). Ideas and Norms on Future War and Warfare. Strategic Insights, 10(3): 36-48 [More information]
  • Angstrom, J. (2011). Mapping the Competing Analogies of the War on Terrorism. International Relations, 25(2): 224-242 [More information]
  • Dafoe, A. (2011). Statistical Critiques of the Democratic Peace: Caveat Emptor. American Journal of Political Science, Oxford: Blackwell. 55(2): 247-262 [DOI] [More information]
  • Egnell, R. (2011). Lessons from Helmand, Afghanistan: What now for British counterinsurgency?. International Affairs, 87(2): 297-315 [DOI] [More information]
  • Elfversson, E. (2011). Local peacebuilding: Inspiring examples from African countries. Peace Monitor, Stockholm: Svenska Freds- och Skiljedomsföreningen. 1(1): 14-17 [More information]
  • Findley, M., Powell, J., Strandow, D., Tanner, J. (2011). The localized geography of foreign aid: A new dataset and application to violent armed conflict. World Development, Elsevier. 39(11): 1995-2009 [DOI] [More information]
  • Haldén, P. (2011). The past, present and future(s) of environmental security studies. Cooperation and Conflict, Sage Publications. 46(3): 406-414 [DOI] [More information]
  • Haldén, P. (2011). Understanding the EU, the US and their external spheres of rule: republican synergies, destructive feedbacks and dependencies. journal of political power, Taylor & Francis Group. 4(3): 433-450 [DOI] [More information]
  • Haldén, P. (2011). Republican Continuities in the Vienna Order and the German Confederation 1815-1866. European Journal of International Relations Sage Publications. Epub ahead of print. [DOI] [More information]
  • Haldén, P. (2011). The past, present and future(s) of environmental security studies. Cooperation and Conflict, 46(3): 406-414 [DOI] [More information]
  • Hicks, M., Lee, U., Sundberg, R., Spagat, M. (2011). Global Comparison of Warring Groups in 2002-2007: Fatalities from Targeting Civilians vs. Fighting Battles. PLoS ONE, 6(9): e23976- [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K. (2011). Obstacles to Monitoring: Perceptions of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission and the Dual Role of Norway. International Peacekeeping, 18(2): 210-225 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K. (2011). Priset för demokrati får inte bli våldsamma val. Tvärsnitt: Humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning, Stockholm: Vetenskapsrådet. 32-35 [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Jarstad, A. (2011). Toward Electoral Security: Experiences from KwaZulu-Natal. Africa Spectrum, 46(1): 33-59 [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Orjuela, C. (2011). Winning the peace: Conflict prevention after a victor's peace in Sri Lanka. Contemporary Social Science, 6(1): 19-37 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Svensson, I. (2011). Should I Stay or Should I Go? Termination as a Tactic and Norwegian Mediation in Sri Lanka:  . Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 4(1): 12-32 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Svensson, I. (2011). Schizophrenic Soothers: The International Community and Contrast Strategies for Peace-making in Sri Lanka. Cooperation and Conflict, 46(2): 166-184 [DOI] [More information]
  • Karlborg, L. (2011). The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding (review). African Studies Review, African Studies Association. 54(3): 195-197 [More information]
  • Kivimäki, T. (2011). Security and Peace in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. Asian Security, 7(2): 169-175 [DOI] [More information]
  • Krampe, F. (2011). The art of mediation: (Review of: The Go-Between. Jan Eliasson and the Styles of Mediation by Isak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen. USIP: Washington D.C., 2010). New Routes, 16(1): 34-35 [Free fulltext] [More information]
  • Lilja, J. (2011). Ripening Within?: Strategies Used by Rebel Negotiators to End Ethnic War. Negotiation journal, 27(3): 311-342 [DOI] [More information]
  • Lilja, J., Hultman, L. (2011). Intraethnic Dominance and Control: Violence Against Co-Ethnics in the Early Sri Lankan Civil War. Security Studies, 20(2): 171-197 [DOI] [More information]
  • Nilsson, D., Söderberg Kovacs, M. (2011). Revisiting an Elusive Concept: A Review of the Debate on Spoilers in Peace Processes. International Studies Review, Wiley-Blackwell. 13(4): 606-626 [DOI] [More information]
  • Svensson, I. (2011). Crowded with Conciliators: Exploring Multiparty Mediation in Civil Wars. Peace and Policy [More information]
  • Svensson, I. (2011). East Asian Peacemaking: Exploring the patterns of conflict management and conflict settlement in East Asia. Asian Perspectives, 35(2): 163-185 [More information]
  • Svensson, I., Harding, E. (2011). How Holy Wars End: Exploring the Termination Patterns of Conflicts with Religious Dimensions in Asia. Terrorism and Political Violence, 23(2): 133-149 [DOI] [More information]
  • Svensson, I., Hoffman, E. (2011). “Pinning Down Peace: , submitted to the  (CFPJ),: Towards a Multi-Dimensional, Clustered Measure of Mediation Success. Canadian Foreign Policy Submitted. [More information]
  • Svensson, I., Lindgren, M. (2011). From Bombs to Banners?: The Decline of Wars and the Rise of Unarmed Uprisings in East Asia. Security Dialogue, 42(3): 219-237 [DOI] [More information]
  • Svensson, I., Lindgren, M. (2011). Community and Consent: Unarmed insurrections in non-democracies. European Journal of International Relations, 17(1): 97-120 [DOI] [More information]
  • Swain, A. (2011). Challenges for water sharing in the Nile basin: changing geo-politics and changing climate. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 56(4): 687-702 [DOI] [More information]
  • Swain, A., Jamali, Q. (2011). The China Factor: New Challenges for Nile Basin Cooperation. New Routes, 15(3): 7-10 [More information]
  • Swain, A., Krampe, F. (2011). Transboundary Rivers and Climate Change: African and Asian Rivers. Conflict Trends, Durban: The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). 16-21 [Free fulltext] [More information]
  • Wallensteen, P. (2011). Leave it to Dag!. New Routes, Uppsala: Life and Peace Institute. 16(2): 17-20 [More information]
  • Wallensteen, P., Themnér, L. (2011). Armed conflict, 1946-2010. Journal of Peace Research, Sage Publications. 48(4): 525-536 [More information]
  • Ångstrom, J. (2011). Mapping the Competing Historical Analogies of the War on Terrorism: The Bush Presidency. International Relations, 25(2): 224-242 [DOI] [More information]
  • Brounéus, K. (2010). The Trauma of Truth Telling: Effects of Witnessing in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts on Psychological Health. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 54(3): 408-437 [DOI] [More information]
  • de Soysa, I., Fjelde, H. (2010). Is the hidden hand an iron fist?: Capitalism and civil peace, 1970-2005. Journal of Peace Research, 47(3): 287-298 [DOI] [More information]
  • Egnell, R., Haldén, P. (2010). Contextualising international state-building. Conflict, Security and Development, 10(4): 431-441 [DOI] [More information]
  • Engberg, K. (2010). To Intervene or Not to Intervene?: The EU and the Military Option in the Lebanon War of 2006. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 11(4): 408-428 [More information]
  • Fjelde, H. (2010). Generals, Dictators, and Kings: Authoritarian Regimes and Civil Conflict, 1973-2004. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 27(3): 195-218 [DOI] [More information]
  • Haldén, P. (2010). Systems-building before state-building: On the systemic preconditions of state-building. Conflict, Security and Development, 10(4): 519-545 [DOI] [More information]
  • Hultman, L. (2010). Keeping Peace or Spurring Violence? Unintended Effects of Peace Operations on Violence against Civilians. Civil Wars, 12(1-2): 29-46 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Söderberg Kovacs, M. (2010). Beyond the Absence of War: The Diversity of Peace in Post-Settlement Societies. Review of International Studies, 36(2): 367-390 [DOI] [More information]
  • Krampe, F., Melber, H. (2010). Angola and Mozambique: Honeymoon after Civil War?. New Routes, Uppsala: Life and Peace Institute. 15(4): 17-20 [Free fulltext] [More information]
  • Kreutz, J. (2010). How and when armed conflicts end: Introducing the UCDP Conflict Termination dataset. Journal of Peace Research, 47(2): 243-250 [DOI] [More information]
  • Lilja, J. (2010). Book Note: Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last After Civil Conflict (Shields, Vanessa E & Nicholas D J Baldwin, eds, 2008).. Journal of Peace Research, 47(1) [More information]
  • Lilja, J. (2010). Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last After Civil Conflict. Journal of Peace Research, 47(1): 103-103 [More information]
  • Nilsson, D. (2010). Turning Weakness into Strength: Military Capabilities, Multiple Rebel Groups and Negotiated Settlements. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 27(3): 253-271 [DOI] [More information]
  • Nilsson, M., Kreutz, J. (2010). Protracted conflicts: Issues or dynamics at stake?. , Uppsala: Life & Peace Institute. 15(4): 3-6 [More information]
  • Noreen, E. (2010). Litteraturgranskning av Mikael Blomdahl; The Political Use of Force. Beyond National Security Considerations as a Source of American Foreign Policy, Stockholm Studies in Politics 127 (Stockholm: Stockholm Univ. 2008). Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, 112(3): 301-305 [More information]
  • Sundberg, R. (2010). Munväder om klimatkrig. Neo [More information]
  • Svensson, I. (2010). Book note on Sisk, Timothy D, 2009. International Mediation in Civil Wars: Bargaining with Bullets. London: Routledge.. Journal of Peace Research, 47(2): 251-251 [More information]
  • Svensson, I. (2010). Peace from the Inside: Exploring the Role of the Insider-Partial Mediators. International Interactions Submitted. [More information]
  • Svensson, I., O Dochartaigh, N. (2010). The Exit Option: Mediation and the Termination of Negotiations in the Northern Ireland Conflict. International Journal of Conflict Management Accepted. [More information]
  • Swain, A. (2010). Environment and conflict in South Asia: Water-sharing between Bangladesh and India. South Asian Journal : quarterly magazine of South Asian Journalists & Scholars, Lahore. 27-34 [More information]
  • Wallensteen, P. (2010). Nuclear Weapons and Peace. Läkare mot kärnvapen Special issue on Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation [More information]
  • Angstrom, J. (2009). Transformative Learning through Globalization of World Politics. Cooperation and Conflict, 44(2): 231-240 [More information]
  • Cochrane, F., Baser, B., Swain, A. (2009). Home Thoughts from Abroad: Diasporas and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 32(8): 681-704 [DOI] [More information]
  • DeRouen Jr, K., Lea, J., Wallensteen, P. (2009). The Duration of Civil War Peace Agreements. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 26(4): 367-387 [DOI] [More information]
  • Eck, K. (2009). From Armed Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and Conflict Intensification. International Studies Quarterly, 53(2): 369-388 [DOI] [More information]
  • Egnell, R., Haldén, P. (2009). Laudable, ahistorical and overambitious: Security sector reform meets state formation theory.. Conflict, Security and Development, 9(1): 27-54 [DOI] [More information]
  • Fjelde, H. (2009). Buying Peace? Oil Wealth, Corruption and Civil War, 1985-99. Journal of Peace Research, 462(2): 199-218 [DOI] [More information]
  • Fjelde, H., de Soysa, I. (2009). Coercion, Co-optation , or Co-operation?: State Capacity and the Risk of Civil War, 1961 - 2004. Conflict Management and Peace Science, London: Sage Publication. 26(1): 05-25 [DOI] [More information]
  • Harbom, L., Wallensteen, P. (2009). Armed Conflicts, 1946-2008. Journal of Peace Research, 46(4): 577-587 [DOI] [More information]
  • Harbom, L., Wallensteen, P. (2009). Armed Conflict, 1946-2008. Journal of Peace Research, London: Sage. 46(4): 577-587 [More information]
  • Hultman, L. (2009). The Power to Hurt in Civil War: The Strategic Aim of Renamo Violence. Journal of Southern African Studies, 35(4): 821-834 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K. (2009). Electoral Violence in Conflict-Ridden Societies: Concepts, Causes, and Consequences. Terrorism and Political Violence, 21(3): 412-427 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Jarstad, A., Söderberg Kovacs, M. (2009). The Predicament of Elections in War-Torn Societies. Democratization, London: Frank Cass. 16(3): 530-557 [DOI] [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Piyarathne, A. (2009). Paying the Price for Patronage: Electoral Violence in Sri Lanka. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, London: Frank Cass. 47(4): 287-307 [More information]
  • Höglund, K., Svensson, I. (2009). Mediating between tigers and lions: Norwegian peace diplomacy in Sri Lanka's civil war. Contemporary South Asia, Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Carfax Pub. Co.. 17(2): 175-191 [More information]
  • Jarblad, A. (2009). Är vår rädsla för Ryssland rationell?. Upsala Nya Tidning Uppsala: Upsala Nya Tidning. [More information]
  • Jarblad, A. (2009). Obamas vägskäl i handelspolitiken. Upsala Nya Tidning Uppsala: Upsala Nya Tidning. [More information]
  • Kostic, R., Hall, J. (2009). Does Integration Encourage ReconciliatoryAttitudes among Diasporas?. Global Migration and Transnational Politics, Washington D.C.: Georg Mason University. 1-10 [More information]
  • Krampe, F. (2009). Neue Kriege, neu betrachtet: Neubetrachtung des Forschungsstands und des Fallbeispiels Bosnien und Herzegowina. Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 10(1): 61-92 [Free fulltext] [More information]
  • Lilja, J. (2009). Trapping Constituents or Winning Hearts and Minds?: Rebel Strategies to Attain Constituent Support in Sri Lanka. Terrorism and Political Violence, 21(2): 306-326 [DOI] [More information]
  • Lilja, J., Ellingsen, T., Johannesson, M., Zetterqvist, H. (2009). Trust and Truth. Economic Journal, 119(534): 252-276 [More information]
  • Melander, E. (2009). Selected To Go Where Murderers Lurk?: The Preventive Effect of Peacekeeping on Mass Killings of Civilians. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 26(4): 389-406 [DOI] [More information]
  • Melander, E. (2009). The Geography of Fear: Regional Ethnic Diversity, the Security Dilemma, and Ethnic War. European Journal of International Relations, 15(1): 95-124 [DOI] [More information]
  • Melander, E., Möller, F., Öberg, M. (2009). Managing Intrastate Low-intensity Armed Conflict 1993-2004: A New Dataset. International Interactions, 35(1): 58-85 [DOI] [More information]
  • Melander, E., Öberg, M., Hall, J. (2009). Are 'new wars' more atrocious?: battle severity, civilians killed, and forced migration before and after the Cold War. European Journal of International Relations, 15(3): 505-536 [DOI] [More information]
  • Melin, M., Svensson, I. (2009). Incentives for Talking: Accepting Mediation in International and Civil Wars. International Interactions, London: Gordon and Breach. 35(3): 249-271 [DOI] [More information]
  • Spagat, M., Mack, A., Cooper, T., Kreutz, J. (2009). Estimating War Deaths: An Arena of Contestation. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 53(6): 934-950 [DOI] [More information]
  • Svensson, I. (2009). Who Brings Which Peace?: Neutral versus biased mediation and institutional peace arrangements in civil wars. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 53(3): 446-469 [DOI] [More information]
  • Svensson, I., Lindgren, M. (2009). Peace and protest: Unarmed insurrections in East Asia, 1946-2006. Asia Insights, København: Nordisk institut for Asienstudier. 11-13 [More information]
  • Swain, A. (2009). The Indus II and Siachen Peace Park: Pushing India-Pakistan Peace Process Forward. The Round Table, London. 98(404) [More information]
  • Swain, A. (2009). Nile: Troubled Waters. The Africa Report, Paris. 34-39 [More information]
  • Swain, A., Baser, B. (2009). Diaspora Design versus Homeland Realities: Case Study of Armenian Diaspora. Caucasian review of international affairs, Frankfurt. 3(1): 45-62 [More information]
  • Swain, A., Corti, D. (2009). War on Drugs and War on Terror: Case of Afghanistan. The Peace and Conflict Review, U-Peace. 3(2): 41-53 [More information]
  • Wallensteen, P. (2009). The evolving field of international mediation. Development Dialogue, 27-31 [More information]
  • Wallensteen, P., DeRouen, Jr, K., Bercovitch, J., Möller., F. (2009). Democracy and Mediation in Territorial Civil Wars in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Asia Europe Journal, 7(2): 241-264 [DOI] [More information]

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