Idag signerar jag och 121 andra kloka kolleger följande upprop för att Sveriges regering ska agera för att stoppa folkmordet i Gaza. Läs och sprid. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/sver...

"DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine" Consider signing here: uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

The New Intelligence Studies section of the #EISAPEC25 had a wonderful time in Bologna. Thank you ALL dear colleagues who make this possible year after year!

NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25

’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.

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...

'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...

’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)

Thanks everyone for your submissions! The EISA intelligence section will likely have a record attendance this year 🫶 Looking forward to seeing you in Bologna!

✨ DEADLINE 2 DAY ✨

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...

Happy to be a small part of this NordForsk funded research network in the coming years: www.nordforsk.org/news/disinfo...

Happy 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! ✌️💖

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.

Felicidades Bernardino León-Reyes, now a doctor in sociology! A true pleasure to engage with your work on the limits of intelligence oversight.

I senaste numret av Officerstidningen analyserar jag användningen av akademiskt kapital i historiska och samtida officersutbildningsreformer: issuu.com/officerstidn...

📣 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/...

New publication (OA): 'Recruiting the Swedish intelligence professional'. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

An interview about my latest research article on the academisation of the officer corps in Sweden. www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

New article out now in Armed Forces & Society (OA): 'The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Exciting publication out soon in Armed Forces & Society!

"Special Forum on intelligence and theory" is out now in Intelligence & National Security (OA), edited by Peter de Werd and co-authored by me, Hager Ben Jaffel, and several other colleagues. It maps emerging critical approaches to the study of intelligence. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deadline today! Submit your abstracts here: pec2024.eisa-net.org/abstract-sub....

Reminder to prepare your abstracts on intelligence for #EISAPEC24! Submission deadline is in a month. If you want to discuss ideas for panels/roundtables, just get in touch.

'New Intelligence Studies' is back at #EISAPEC24 in Lille 27-31 Aug! For the 5th year in a row, Hager Ben Jaffel and I will organise a conference section providing a space for new, transdisciplinary, and critical studies of intelligence. Submit abstracts here: pec2024.eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...

Just started reading this book (available open access!) and so far it's the best intel-related thing I've gotten my hands on in a long time 👇

'Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity: Who Will Watch the Watchers?', edited by Didier Bigo, Emma McCluskey & Félix Tréguer, is out now with Open Access in our Routledge 'New Intelligence Studies' series. A tour de force! www.routledge.com/Intelligence...

Big news! ✨ Me, Sanna Strand & Stina Malmén are pleased to announce that we've received a 3-year grant from the Swedish Research Council. It's for a project on the reemergence of so-called psychological defence in Sweden, including strategies to counter disinformation & foster a ’will to defend’.