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News published on the website of the Swedish Defence University.
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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 new study pub...
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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...
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The Hugo Raab Award 2021 to Mariam Bjarnesen and Linus Hagström09 Nov 2021Mariam Bjarnesen, Senior Lecturer in War Studies, and Linus Hagström, Professor of Political Science, have been selected as the 2021 recipients of the Hugo Raab...
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Difficult start in professional life for new officers27 Sep 2021In a study published in the journal Armed Forces and Society, researchers at the Swedish Defence University investigate how newly graduated officers and special...
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Focus on military strategies of great powers21 Sep 2021In the new book Military Strategy of Great Powers , researchers from the Swedish Defence University analyse the military strategies of the United States, Chin...
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Japanese women's views on safety examined in new study06 Sep 2021In a recent study published in the Social Science Japan Journal , researchers from the Swedish Defence University investigate how women in three Japanese inte...