Archive: Spotlight on research
Here you will find older interviews with our researchers about scientific publications and research projects.
2022
Strategy changes after NATO and EU membership
In a new book, researchers at the Swedish Defence University analyse how and to what extent eleven countries in Eastern Europe have adapted their defence strategies since joining the EU and...
Military diplomacy in the spotlight
To be commanding international military operations does not only entail the leading of soldiers. Instead, it tends to demand an expansion of duties to include the role of mediator or negotia...
The human factor in wartime targeting processes
By analysing how the ’targeting process’ - selecting, prioritising and taking action on military targets - worked for the coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom, researchers at the...
Narrative-based influence operations
Influence operations can be effective even when the disseminated message is not logical or consistent with the recipient's previous experience. This is the finding of a study examining peopl...
The concept of deterrence
In his thesis Deterrence Games for the 21st Century: Representation, Theory and Evidence , Karl Sörenson takes a closer look at the concept of deterrence and examines the kind of knowledge...
How scientific ideas are reflected in practices of war
The second edition of Antoine Bousquet’s book The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity describes how scientific thinking and ideas are reflected in...
"We need leaders who see and care about us"
Leaders are tested in times of crisis. A prime example is Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose leadership style has drawn widespread praise. "He has a transformational leadership...
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Younger men more engaged in Russian information influence
Men and younger people are clearly over-represented in terms of who consumes and distributes content from the Russian-supported news channels RT and Sputnik. Those who follow RT and Sputnik...
A keen interest in the military’s political influence
From terrorism to saving lives in the Mediterranean. Associate Professor Chiara Ruffa’s research can be described as broad, but a common theme throughout is civil control of the military. Th...
2021
Next generation warfare from a Swedish perspective
Alastair Finlan, professor of War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, is currently conducting a study into the nature of future warfare, from a Swedish standpoint. His primary focus i...
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Resilience and disaster risk reduction
In the book Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean: the Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction Simon Hollis examines why international development projects on disaster risk re...
Imagining the consequences of creeping crises
The book Understanding the Creeping Crisis explores different forms of the creeping crisis phenomenon, with recent examples from, among others, the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. "W...
Japanese women's views on safety
In a study published in the Social Science Japan Journal , researchers from the Swedish Defence University investigate how women in three Japanese interest groups view security and securit...
Difficult start in professional life for new officers
In a study published in the journal Armed Forces and Society, researchers at the Swedish Defence University investigate how newly graduated officers and specialist officers experience joinin...
Why do megaprojects fail?
Projects in the multi-billion class that involve a large number of actors at different levels are becoming increasingly common. In his dissertation Lars Löfgren shows that concepts such as c...
Narcissism theory contributes to the understanding of great powers
Can great power politics be understood with the help of ideas taken from research on narcissism and narrative psychology? Linus Hagström is of this opinion, and in a recent article defines f...
”This opens the scope for questioning and rethinking”
Claudia Baisini’s PhD thesis in Philosophy explores the relation between language, observation and understanding, which in turn influences action.
Soft power shapes world politics
Stephanie Winkler’s PhD thesis explores how the concept of soft power has developed over time and shaped world politics. "I show that academic concepts not only describe the reality, but th...
Family networks as a part of the political order
In his book ‘Family Power: Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia 500-2018’, Peter Haldén examines how stable political systems have been dependent on family networks and on the idea o...
In Russian media Sweden is depicted most negatively of all the Scandinavian countries
There are great differences in how the Russian news organisation Sputnik depicts the Scandinavian countries. Sweden stands out and is described much more negatively than neighbouring Norway,...
Men and women view security differently
Women tend to link security issues like terrorism, military power and crime to personal safety whereas men to a greater degree link security to threats to the state and society. Concurrently...
