Mistra Geopolitics is an interdisciplinary research programme, which means that researchers from different fields of expertise come together and combine their intellectual skills. This is an effective – and sometimes challenging – approach, but necessary when it comes to understanding the complex world we live in.
The programme comprises four prioritized research themes organized internally under the
six work packages displayed below.
Leader: Nina von Uexküll, Uppsala University
Explore: Food Security
Leader: Karen Meijer, Senior Researcher with SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme
Explore: Sustainable Oceans
While the Paris Agreement entails a mounting pressure on actors to take the lead in decarbonization efforts, fossil fuel dependent regions, states and sectors are in need of innovative strategies in order to support a just transition to a fossil free economy and avoid popular resistance to decarbonization policies. This work package studies the geopolitical challenges of sustainability transformations related to decarbonization.
Leader: André Månberger, Senior Lecturer, Lund University
Explore: Decarbonization
This work package will develop foresight techniques to examine how global affairs might develop in times of transformative change, the role new technologies can play in low-carbon transformations and how geopolitical realities will come to shape the options for achieving the SDGs.
Leader: Henrik Carlsen, Co-Director of Mistra Geopolitics &
Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
The research school is hosted by Stockholm University and will include nine doctoral students fully or partly funded by the programme, as well as external graduate students. The research school extends over 2 years in order to train the next generation of scholars in methods, theories and collection of data. Read more here.
In a rapidly changing world there is a growing demand from policy and business audiences for analysis of current events and emerging issues. This work package builds on the experiences from previous communication efforts to reach out with research findings that will engage key audiences in dialogue.
