@olovsebastian.bsky.social
Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. Co-editor/chair of 'New Intelligence Studies'. Critical & sociological analyses of intelligence, defence, and military education.
’Israel does the whole world a favour’, says Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister. This is how our elected spokespersons speak of genocide, of deliberately starving children. Let it sink in. Whatever conception you might still have of Sweden as a ’humanitarian superpower’, forget it.
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Situationen i Gaza "visar hur moraliska självklarheter – som att barn förtjänar att leva snarare än att bombas – kan reduceras till ämnen för debatt. Här har argumentationen blivit ett hinder snarare än ett verktyg för att handla på god grund."
www.dn.se/debatt/barne...
Open PhD positions in War Studies (fully funded) at the Swedish Defence University. Spread the word!
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
’Det är tydligt att regeringen är mer angelägen att påverka vissa myndigheter än andra. Att ingripa mot vapenexport och vapenimport … tycks inte vara en prioritet. Däremot kunde stödet från Sida till UNRWA … stoppas utan dröjsmål’ www.svd.se/a/Pp89Qb/sve...
01.06.2025 20:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'Ibrahim pulls up a photo on his phone of his accommodation: a cramped space inside a temporary cabin housing six men, each allocated a single bed, the room a wash of white and grey. “It’s like prison,” Ibrahim says.'
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'Since the winning bidders were announced in January 2019, complaints about asylum accommodation have continued ... there are thousands of reports of self-harm and suicide among asylum accommodation residents every month.' www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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’Intelligence, insecurity and the international: new encounters between IR and intelligence scholarship’, King’s College London, 7–8 May.
Cheers for a wonderfully stimulating workshop folks, and thanks Hager for organising.
Journalism is not a crime, free Joakim Medin
via @mlsaturkey.org
Late night rereading of C. W. Mills on power (The Sociological Imagination, p. 41)
15.04.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks everyone for your submissions! The EISA intelligence section will likely have a record attendance this year 🫶 Looking forward to seeing you in Bologna!
25.03.2025 08:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0✨ DEADLINE 2 DAY ✨
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Happening in two weeks! @sannastrand.bsky.social visits the Swedish Defence University to give a talk on the return and reimagination of military conscription in Europe.
www.fhs.se/arkiv/kalend...
“If we only focus on disinformation from Russia, we forget that we have a lot of issues at home. Our populist parties in the Nordic countries do spread disinformation or conspiracy theories or benefit from others spreading it."
20.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to be a small part of this NordForsk funded research network in the coming years:
www.nordforsk.org/news/disinfo...
Thanks mate!
15.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to share I've been promoted to Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in War Studies at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social. Thanks to dear colleagues and co-authors who've been an important part in making it possible! ✌️💖
15.02.2025 12:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Join my department! Assistant prof position with 50% research in war studies (broadly defined). Happy to answer any questions.
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
📣 Thrilled to announce that our conference section New Intelligence Studies will be back for #EISAPEC25, this time as a standing section! Submit your abstracts on intelligence, surveillance, and its multiplicity of actors and practices, and we’ll see you in Bologna 25–29 Aug.
21.01.2025 08:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Felicidades Bernardino León-Reyes, now a doctor in sociology! A true pleasure to engage with your work on the limits of intelligence oversight.
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I senaste numret av Officerstidningen analyserar jag användningen av akademiskt kapital i historiska och samtida officersutbildningsreformer: issuu.com/officerstidn...
19.12.2024 08:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📣 3-year postdoc in secret intelligence at the Swedish Defence University @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social Political Science Dep. Please circulate in your networks!
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Om vår nya antologi "Är Sverige säkert nu?"
www.etc.se/ledarkolumn/...
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14.11.2024 19:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Check out the rest of the volume here, edited by brilliant colleagues Kira Vrist Rønn, Adam Diderichsen, Mia Hartmann & Melanie Hartvigsen: www.routledge.com/Intelligence...
13.09.2024 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Drawing on an archive of job ads, this chapter analyses the Swedish SIGINT agency's recent recruitment efforts and practical transformation into a Big Tech player focusing increasingly on in-house development of digital surveillance and computer hacking systems.
13.09.2024 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New publication (OA): 'Recruiting the Swedish intelligence professional'. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
13.09.2024 14:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0An interview about my latest research article on the academisation of the officer corps in Sweden. www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...
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