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Eastern European countries' strategy changes after NATO and EU membership12 Dec 2022In a new book, researchers at the Swedish Defence University analyse how and to what extent eleven countries in Eastern Europe have adapted their defence strate...
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How can Swedish laws of crisis and war be improved?06 Dec 2022In Sweden, peacetime crises, war, and the threat of war are regulated in different ways and managed in separate systems that fall under crisis preparedness and...
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2.9 million to research project on intelligence networks in 16th-century Sweden24 Nov 2022Martin Neuding Skoog, Associate Professor of Military History at the Swedish Defence University, has been awarded a project grant of SEK 2.9 million from the Sw...
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This year's Hugo Raab Award goes to Charlotte Wagnsson09 Nov 2022Charlotte Wagnsson, Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the 2022 Hugo Raab Award, the Swedish Defence University's award for scientific work of exc...
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"Brussels and Washington should aim for a long-term sustainable transatlantic consensus"25 Oct 2022In a recently published article in the academic journal European Foreign Affairs Review , Kjell Engelbrekt, Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defe...
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Feminism in a time of militarization17 Oct 2022In mid-September, Cynthia Enloe, Professor at Clark University, in Massachusetts, USA, visited the Swedish Defence University where she gave a popular lecture o...
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New study analyzes the human factor in wartime targeting process07 Oct 2022By analysing how the ’targeting process’ - selecting, prioritising and taking action on military targets - worked for the coalition forces during Operation Iraq...
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The Swedish Defence University supports SUHF:s statement regarding concerns about the situation for students and university employees in Iran04 Oct 2022The Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions, SUHF, published a statement regarding concerns about the situation for students and university employe...
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Ultra-nationalist women's activism in Japan analysed in new study23 Sep 2022In a recently published article, researchers at the Swedish Defence University have studied how political activism is expressed by female ultra-nationalists in...
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Brigadier General Anders Persson appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor for the Swedish Defence University10 Aug 2022The Swedish Defence University's Vice-Chancellor has appointed Brigadier General Anders Persson Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and thus the highest ranking military of...
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Sweden during the corona pandemic: New analytical model shows nuances in international media narratives29 Jul 2022In a study published in the scientific journal Cooperation and Conflict , researchers at the Swedish Defence University analyse how Sweden was portrayed in in...
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Resentment and fear affect Japanese security policy05 Jul 2022What is the background to the shift in Japan's security policy in recent decades? In a study published in the academic journal International Relations of the A...
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New study on narrative-based influence operations15 Jun 2022Influence operations can be effective even when the disseminated message is not logical or consistent with the recipient's previous experience. This is the find...
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How scientific ideas are reflected in practices of war31 May 2022The second edition of Antoine Bousquet’s book The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity has recently hit the shelves an...
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Information operations of influence have less impact than we think12 May 2022In a new review article, Claes Wallenius, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Command and Control at the Swedish Defence University, looks at what research says a...
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“The biggest challenge is the information flow”08 Apr 2022The international staff exercise VIKING 22 has been completed with over 2,000 participants from five different countries. The main aim of this year's exercise w...
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"Both Russia as a nation-state and Putin can be held accountable for violations of international law"29 Mar 2022International law establishes a set of universally accepted rules that govern the relations and actions of nation-states during peace and conflict. But what too...
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Feminism seen as a security threat17 Mar 2022Swedish people consider authoritarian ideologies to be a dominating source of concern. This is a key finding in a recent study that examines how perceptions of...
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Younger men more engaged regarding Russian information influence01 Mar 2022Men and younger people are clearly over-represented in terms of who consumes and distributes content from the Russian-supported news channels RT and Sputnik. Th...
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The importance of collaboration for defence development18 Feb 2022How can policy makers, industry and academia collaborate to promote technology development in defence and security? Hans Liwång explores this in a study publish...
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“Unrecognised ordinary people often seek alternative ways to make their security concerns heard”31 Jan 2022Akinbode Fasakin’s PhD thesis investigates subaltern security issues in postcolonial Africa with a special focus on Nigeria. Based on a synthesis of securitizat...