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.
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.
’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)
📣 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.
New publication (OA): 'Recruiting the Swedish intelligence professional'. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
September 13, 2024 at 2:19 PM
New publication (OA): 'Recruiting the Swedish intelligence professional'. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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/...
June 10, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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!
April 30, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Exciting publication out soon in Armed Forces & Society!
'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...
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...
January 16, 2024 at 2:06 PM
'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...
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...
'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...
December 2, 2023 at 10:23 AM
'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’.
November 29, 2023 at 3:51 PM
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’.