Niklas Nilsson

Docent, Lektor

Om Niklas

Beskrivning om dig själv: Dr Niklas Nilsson is Associate Professor in War Studies at the Land Operations Division, Department of War Studies, Swedish Defence University. His research interests include international politics and security, hybrid threats, intelligence, and military operations and tactics.
Prior to joining the Swedish Defence University in 2017, he was Research Coordinator for the Swedish Network for European Studies and a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Government, Uppsala University.
In 2012-2013, Nilsson was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He has also spent longer stays as a Visiting Researcher at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, Tbilisi and at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Nilsson received his PhD in Political Science from the Department of Government, Uppsala University in 2015, with the dissertation “Beacon of Liberty: Role Conceptions, Crisis, and Georgia’s Foreign Policy, 2004-2012”.
His publications have appeared in academic journals such as Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, Defence Studies, Demokratizatsiya and Ethnopolitics. See CV for a full list of publications.
His most recent major publication is the edited volume Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and Operations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), co-edited with Mikael Weissmann.