Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3430489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jens Stilhoff Sörensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jens Stilhoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Sörensen |
| SIGNATURE | SÖRENSEN J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3121-0938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Russia’s Narrative of Sovereignty
Russia’s recent foreign policy has highlighted its connection with the Global South in a common struggle against imperialism, colonialism, and Western hegemony. Along with continued insistence on sovereignty and rejection of the West’s aspirations for dominance, a new narrative and strategy of ‘wooing the Global South’ has emerged. Although it has met a mixed reception in the Global South, it has widened the space for political maneuver there, an…
A new global independence movement
Humanitarian permanence
This article analyses the political economy of conflict in South Sudan as it has developed over the past 40 years and introduces the concept of humanitarian permanence to characterise a strategy whereby international aid has become an integral component to the economy. This local–international relationship is traced to the early and mid 1980s during the Second Civil War, while it also builds on earlier colonial patterns. The political economy of …
Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden's population is literate and has a high level of trust in authorities and those in power. During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this repo…
National health governance, science and the media
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis in which governments had to act in a situation of rapid change and substantial uncertainty. The governments of Germany, Sweden and the UK have taken different paths allowing learning for future pandemic preparedness. To help inform discussions on preparedness, inspired by resilience frameworks, this paper reviews governance structures, and the role of science and the media in the COVID-19 re…
Shadow Management
We argue that the neoliberal tradition and new public management reforms of the public sector effectively erode the core (liberal) democratic values of the rule of law and transparency. The tension between public law and managerially-influenced governmental policy is in practice resolved by the emergence of what we call “shadow management” in public administration, whereby managerial decisions that clash with constitutional and administrative law…
What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities
This article is focused on gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities in the period from 2016–2019. Our research questions are: (a) In what form was gender mainstreaming introduced and did the form itself affect scholar’s academic rights? (b) Was the process in question compatible with international standards of institutional autonomy? (c) What effect did gender mainstreaming have on scholars’ ability to exercise their academic rights in accord…
Intervention and Statebuilding in Kosovo
The return of plural society
This article argues that liberal practices of peace- and statebuilding in post-conflict societies contribute to cement ethnic divisions and exacerbate social and spatial splintering. Drawing on historical experiences from colonial policy and from post-colonial international development and statebuilding the article argues that a particular problem lies in the conception and character of the state being promoted. Although liberal peace- and stateb…
The Shadow Economy, War and State Building
This article analyses the development and consolidation of an illiberal (or shadow) economy and its connection to political projects in Serbia and Kosovo. Here, some comparative remarks are made over the form of economy and its political connections and implications. In spite of methodological problems with sources being scarce or of varying quality, the phenomenon of illiberal economy and its coupling with political projects is too important to …
War as social transformation
This article analyses changes in the social structure and stratification of Serbian society in the 1990 ‘s and the development of an illiberal economy. These developments are discussed in context of three competing theoretical frameworks here called: the ‘transitional’ perspective, the ‘social breakdown’ interpretation, and the perspective of ‘social transformation’. The article argues that the two former perspectives imply assumptions of ‘transi…
War as Social Transformation
Balkanism and the New Radical Interventionism
This article presents a critique of the theory behind the new radical interventionism, both in its military disciplining form and in the form of a radical aid policy that attempts to change and control whole processes of social life by targeting mentalities and attitudes. The contention here is that the new interventionism, while appealing to moral and civil values, is as 'realist' oriented as ever. Moreover, the moralist discourse behind 'cosmop…
Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden's population is literate and has a high level of trust in authorities and those in power. During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this repo…
Balkanism and the New Radical Interventionism
This article presents a critique of the theory behind the new radical interventionism, both in its military disciplining form and in the form of a radical aid policy that attempts to change and control whole processes of social life by targeting mentalities and attitudes. The contention here is that the new interventionism, while appealing to moral and civil values, is as 'realist' oriented as ever. Moreover, the moralist discourse behind 'cosmop…
War as social transformation
This article analyses changes in the social structure and stratification of Serbian society in the 1990 ‘s and the development of an illiberal economy. These developments are discussed in context of three competing theoretical frameworks here called: the ‘transitional’ perspective, the ‘social breakdown’ interpretation, and the perspective of ‘social transformation’. The article argues that the two former perspectives imply assumptions of ‘transi…
The return of plural society
This article argues that liberal practices of peace- and statebuilding in post-conflict societies contribute to cement ethnic divisions and exacerbate social and spatial splintering. Drawing on historical experiences from colonial policy and from post-colonial international development and statebuilding the article argues that a particular problem lies in the conception and character of the state being promoted. Although liberal peace- and stateb…
Balkanism and the New Radical Interventionism
This article presents a critique of the theory behind the new radical interventionism, both in its military disciplining form and in the form of a radical aid policy that attempts to change and control whole processes of social life by targeting mentalities and attitudes. The contention here is that the new interventionism, while appealing to moral and civil values, is as 'realist' oriented as ever. Moreover, the moralist discourse behind 'cosmop…
War as social transformation
This article analyses changes in the social structure and stratification of Serbian society in the 1990 ‘s and the development of an illiberal economy. These developments are discussed in context of three competing theoretical frameworks here called: the ‘transitional’ perspective, the ‘social breakdown’ interpretation, and the perspective of ‘social transformation’. The article argues that the two former perspectives imply assumptions of ‘transi…
War as Social Transformation
The Shadow Economy, War and State Building
This article analyses the development and consolidation of an illiberal (or shadow) economy and its connection to political projects in Serbia and Kosovo. Here, some comparative remarks are made over the form of economy and its political connections and implications. In spite of methodological problems with sources being scarce or of varying quality, the phenomenon of illiberal economy and its coupling with political projects is too important to …
The return of plural society
This article argues that liberal practices of peace- and statebuilding in post-conflict societies contribute to cement ethnic divisions and exacerbate social and spatial splintering. Drawing on historical experiences from colonial policy and from post-colonial international development and statebuilding the article argues that a particular problem lies in the conception and character of the state being promoted. Although liberal peace- and stateb…
Intervention and Statebuilding in Kosovo
Shadow Management
We argue that the neoliberal tradition and new public management reforms of the public sector effectively erode the core (liberal) democratic values of the rule of law and transparency. The tension between public law and managerially-influenced governmental policy is in practice resolved by the emergence of what we call “shadow management” in public administration, whereby managerial decisions that clash with constitutional and administrative law…
What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities
This article is focused on gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities in the period from 2016–2019. Our research questions are: (a) In what form was gender mainstreaming introduced and did the form itself affect scholar’s academic rights? (b) Was the process in question compatible with international standards of institutional autonomy? (c) What effect did gender mainstreaming have on scholars’ ability to exercise their academic rights in accord…
National health governance, science and the media
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis in which governments had to act in a situation of rapid change and substantial uncertainty. The governments of Germany, Sweden and the UK have taken different paths allowing learning for future pandemic preparedness. To help inform discussions on preparedness, inspired by resilience frameworks, this paper reviews governance structures, and the role of science and the media in the COVID-19 re…
Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden's population is literate and has a high level of trust in authorities and those in power. During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this repo…
Russia’s Narrative of Sovereignty
Russia’s recent foreign policy has highlighted its connection with the Global South in a common struggle against imperialism, colonialism, and Western hegemony. Along with continued insistence on sovereignty and rejection of the West’s aspirations for dominance, a new narrative and strategy of ‘wooing the Global South’ has emerged. Although it has met a mixed reception in the Global South, it has widened the space for political maneuver there, an…
A new global independence movement
Humanitarian permanence
This article analyses the political economy of conflict in South Sudan as it has developed over the past 40 years and introduces the concept of humanitarian permanence to characterise a strategy whereby international aid has become an integral component to the economy. This local–international relationship is traced to the early and mid 1980s during the Second Civil War, while it also builds on earlier colonial patterns. The political economy of …
Political science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · Legitimacy (4 works)