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Sebastian Larsson

@olovsebastian.bsky.social
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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New article with @hedvigorden.bsky.social out now in SJMS on the increasingly contested conditions for journalists to perform democratic oversight of security and intelligence actors in Sweden. Open access! sjms.nu/articles/10....
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New article out now in Journal of Political and Military Sociology: "Becoming Cadets: Aptitude, Discipline, and Pre-preprofessional Socialization in the Swedish Military Academy". journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/article...
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Becoming Cadets: Aptitude, Discipline, and Pre-preprofessionalSocializationin the Swedish Military Academy | Journal of Political & Military Sociology
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Interesting dissection of the use of AI kill chains in military operations: ai-killchain.airwars.org
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Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 We are delighted to launch the 📚 EISA New Intelligence Studies Best PhD Thesis Award 📚
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New article out soon in Journal of Political & Military Sociology 🎉
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 We are delighted to launch the 📚 EISA New Intelligence Studies Best PhD Thesis Award 📚
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Two days left, submit your abstracts! eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
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Abstract Submission Guidelines PEC 2026 | EISA
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New co-authored article out now, on the limits of critical thinking in military education: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Submit your abstracts to our New Intelligence Studies section at #EISAPEC26 in Lisbon in Sep! Deadline 19 Feb. We particularly invite critical and interdisciplinary work on intelligence practices and actors. More info here: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Two fully funded PhD positions in my department with a focus on AI and war. Please circulate widely and apply here before Jan 6: www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...
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PhD positions in War Studies with specialisation in AI - Swedish Defence University (SEDU)
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Armed Forces & Society Journal @afssage.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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....
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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...
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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine" Consider signing here: uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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!
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
’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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Open PhD positions in War Studies (fully funded) at the Swedish Defence University. Spread the word! fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
’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...
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”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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
'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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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
’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.
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Journalism is not a crime, free Joakim Medin via @mlsaturkey.org
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Late night rereading of C. W. Mills on power (The Sociological Imagination, p. 41)
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Thanks everyone for your submissions! The EISA intelligence section will likely have a record attendance this year 🫶 Looking forward to seeing you in Bologna!
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
✨ DEADLINE 2 DAY ✨
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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...
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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Happy to be a small part of this NordForsk funded research network in the coming years: www.nordforsk.org/news/disinfo...
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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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! ✌️💖
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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/...
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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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
📣 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.
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I senaste numret av Officerstidningen analyserar jag användningen av akademiskt kapital i historiska och samtida officersutbildningsreformer: issuu.com/officerstidn...
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Officerstidningen nr 6, 2024
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
📣 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/...
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Om vår nya antologi "Är Sverige säkert nu?" www.etc.se/ledarkolumn/...
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Plötsligt blev vi Nato-kritiker beskrivna som landsförrädare
En ny bok borde få politikerna att skämmas.
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
New publication (OA): 'Recruiting the Swedish intelligence professional'. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
An 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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The academisation of officer education in focus
In a new scientific article, Sebastian Larsson examines the development of Swedish officer education since the 19th century, focusing on its academic aspects.
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
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/...
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Exciting publication out soon in Armed Forces & Society!
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
"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....
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Deadline today! Submit your abstracts here: pec2024.eisa-net.org/abstract-sub....
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
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.
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
'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...
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Sophie Duroy @sophieduroy.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
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 👇
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
'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...
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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
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’.
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