Sebastian Larsson
@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.
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Check out this article from our new issue: The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden - Sebastian Larsson (@olovsebastian.bsky.social), 2025 #NewIssue #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Check out this article from our new issue: The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden - Sebastian Larsson (@olovsebastian.bsky.social), 2025 #NewIssue #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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.
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Sverige lever inte upp till internationella åtaganden att förhindra folkmord | Dagens Arena
Det är vårt ansvar att yttra oss, skriver 122 experter.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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.
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"DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine"
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Consider signing here: uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine"
Consider signing here: uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
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!
August 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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
Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25
August 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE
Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25
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.
August 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
’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."
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DN Debatt. ”Barnen i Gaza hjälps inte av vår folkmordsdebatt”
DN Debatt. Att inte agera trots vetskap är inte försiktighet – det är ett svek, skriver två masterstudenter i praktisk filosofi vid Stockholms universitet.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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."
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Open PhD positions in War Studies (fully funded) at the Swedish Defence University. Spread the word!
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PhD students in War Studies
The Department of War Studies conducts research and education in the subject of War Studies. The department consists of about 160 employees and has about 1000 students and participants in commissioned
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June 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Open PhD positions in War Studies (fully funded) at the Swedish Defence University. Spread the word!
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’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...
”Vapenhandeln med Israel bör stoppas”
DEBATT. Israels våld i Gaza är urskillningslöst. Ändå har Sveriges regering ännu inte satt stopp för vapenhandeln med Israel. Men det är fullt möjligt, bara den politiska viljan finns, skriver Kerstin...
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June 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
’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...
The asylum king
How one man has made millions from Britain’s broken immigration system. A joint investigation by Liberty Investigates and Prospect
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May 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
'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.
Cheers for a wonderfully stimulating workshop folks, and thanks Hager for organising.
May 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
’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.
Cheers for a wonderfully stimulating workshop folks, and thanks Hager for organising.
April 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Late night rereading of C. W. Mills on power (The Sociological Imagination, p. 41)
April 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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 ✨
📣 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.
March 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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 ✨
📣 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.
March 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
✨ 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.
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Öppen föreläsning: The return and reimagination of military conscription in Europe
The return and reimagination of military conscription in Europe – Open lecture with Dr. Sanna Strand
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March 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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...
www.fhs.se/arkiv/kalend...
Happy to be a small part of this NordForsk funded research network in the coming years:
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Disinformation is now part of mainstream politics
There was a time when disinformation and conspiracy theories mostly were associated with uneducated and marginalized people. Today, we are witnessing a shift, and it has now become a strategic tool al...
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February 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy to be a small part of this NordForsk funded research network in the coming years:
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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! ✌️💖
February 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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.
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En eller flera biträdande lektorer i krigsvetenskap
Anställningen är placerad vid institutionen för krigsvetenskap i Stockholm. Beskrivning av ämnesområdet Krigsvetenskap är en samhällsvetenskap och dess centrala studieobjekt är krig och mil
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February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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/...
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.
January 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
📣 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.
January 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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...
Officerstidningen nr 6, 2024
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December 19, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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!
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December 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM
📣 3-year postdoc in secret intelligence at the Swedish Defence University @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social Political Science Dep. Please circulate in your networks!
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Plötsligt blev vi Nato-kritiker beskrivna som landsförrädare
En ny bok borde få politikerna att skämmas.
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November 25, 2024 at 8:30 PM