Sebastian Larsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4014861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Larsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish Defence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5502-6775 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden
Throughout history, military officers’ standing in society has been maintained through the establishment and reforming of military academies. Gradually infusing officer education with academic standards and scholarly ideals has helped secure the corps’ status as a legitimate profession. Drawing on Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu, this article explores the “academization” of officer education in Sweden over 200 years. It finds that academization…
Special Forum on intelligence and theory
The literature on intelligence and theory has developed considerably in recent years. This Special Forum takes as its point of departure four recent publications that have made a particular contrib
Why Do We Need a New Research Agenda for the Study of Intelligence
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden
Contemporary research on so-called Nordic branding has provided crucial insights into the social power of states and how various actors use and circulate ‘progressive’ nation brand tropes for political and commercial goals. Hitherto, the literature on Nordic branding has focused on a wide range of substantive issues, among other things, human rights, gender equality, social welfare and foreign aid, but considerably less attention has been paid to…
Problematising Intelligence Studies: Towards a New Research Agenda
Problematising Intelligence Studies
The civil paradox: Swedish arms production and export and the role of emerging security technologies
Nordic Societal Security: Convergence and Divergence
This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of ‘societal security’, and its broadly equivalent concepts, in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The notion of societal secur…
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence. This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers. Instead, our interventions seek to problematize and break with t…
Nordic Societal Security (open Access)
A First Line of Defence? Vigilant surveillance, participatory policing and the reporting of ‘suspicious’ activity
What is at stake when citizens are encouraged to deploy vigilant surveillance and report what they consider to be unusual and “suspicious” activity? This article explores the current role of vigilance in contemporary Western security practices aimed at battling terrorist acts and major crime. It does so by critically analysing official constructions of suspiciousness, the responsibilisation process of participatory policing, and the assignments o…
A First Line of Defence? Vigilant surveillance, participatory policing and the reporting of ‘suspicious’ activity
What is at stake when citizens are encouraged to deploy vigilant surveillance and report what they consider to be unusual and “suspicious” activity? This article explores the current role of vigilance in contemporary Western security practices aimed at battling terrorist acts and major crime. It does so by critically analysing official constructions of suspiciousness, the responsibilisation process of participatory policing, and the assignments o…
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden
Contemporary research on so-called Nordic branding has provided crucial insights into the social power of states and how various actors use and circulate ‘progressive’ nation brand tropes for political and commercial goals. Hitherto, the literature on Nordic branding has focused on a wide range of substantive issues, among other things, human rights, gender equality, social welfare and foreign aid, but considerably less attention has been paid to…
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence. This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers. Instead, our interventions seek to problematize and break with t…
The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden
Throughout history, military officers’ standing in society has been maintained through the establishment and reforming of military academies. Gradually infusing officer education with academic standards and scholarly ideals has helped secure the corps’ status as a legitimate profession. Drawing on Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu, this article explores the “academization” of officer education in Sweden over 200 years. It finds that academization…
A First Line of Defence? Vigilant surveillance, participatory policing and the reporting of ‘suspicious’ activity
What is at stake when citizens are encouraged to deploy vigilant surveillance and report what they consider to be unusual and “suspicious” activity? This article explores the current role of vigilance in contemporary Western security practices aimed at battling terrorist acts and major crime. It does so by critically analysing official constructions of suspiciousness, the responsibilisation process of participatory policing, and the assignments o…
The civil paradox: Swedish arms production and export and the role of emerging security technologies
Nordic Societal Security: Convergence and Divergence
This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of ‘societal security’, and its broadly equivalent concepts, in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The notion of societal secur…
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence. This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers. Instead, our interventions seek to problematize and break with t…
Nordic Societal Security (open Access)
Problematising Intelligence Studies: Towards a New Research Agenda
Problematising Intelligence Studies
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden
Contemporary research on so-called Nordic branding has provided crucial insights into the social power of states and how various actors use and circulate ‘progressive’ nation brand tropes for political and commercial goals. Hitherto, the literature on Nordic branding has focused on a wide range of substantive issues, among other things, human rights, gender equality, social welfare and foreign aid, but considerably less attention has been paid to…
Special Forum on intelligence and theory
The literature on intelligence and theory has developed considerably in recent years. This Special Forum takes as its point of departure four recent publications that have made a particular contrib
Why Do We Need a New Research Agenda for the Study of Intelligence
The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden
Throughout history, military officers’ standing in society has been maintained through the establishment and reforming of military academies. Gradually infusing officer education with academic standards and scholarly ideals has helped secure the corps’ status as a legitimate profession. Drawing on Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu, this article explores the “academization” of officer education in Sweden over 200 years. It finds that academization…
Critical military subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in professional military education
Security and Global Affairs
Political science (10 works) · Law (5 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · International Security (3 works) · Law (3 works) · National security (3 works)