Mikael Weissmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikael Weissmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikael |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissmann |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish Defence University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5426-8238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hybrid Threats and the Intelligence Community: Priming for a Volatile Age
A specific set of challenges facing the intelligence community in a contemporary environment is characterized by composite and dynamic hybrid threats. An understanding of the reciprocal interaction is required between the intelligence actors responsible for intelligence analysis and dissemination, and key societal actors responsible for crafting responses to hybrid threats and building societal resilience. Three processes are identified as critic…
Current Intelligence and Assessments: Information Flows and the Tension between Quality and Speed
This article takes a particular interest in the dynamics between information flows, continuous ongoing assessments, intelligence dissemination, and forward-looking operational advice.The point of departure is the tension between balancing quality (in the sense of in-depth processing of large amounts of information) and speed (meeting requirements of timeliness) in current intelligence assessments.The article takes an explorative approach to pract…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most offensive of them all? – Explaining the offensive bias in military tactical thinking
This article explores why the offensive predominates military tactical thinking. With survey results showing an offensive bias among 60 per cent of senior Swedish officers and as many as 80 per cent in the case of the army, it is clear that this is not just a problem of the past but is equally relevant today. The article asks why there is a tendency to perceive and understand offensive tactics as the preferred choice and the way to conduct battle…
Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative and international order
Under President Xi Jinping's leadership, Chinese foreign relations have moved from keeping a low profile, to a more assertive bid for international leadership that is beginning to take form in the ‘belt and road initiative’ (BRI). This initiative focuses on connectivity in policy coordination, facilities, trade, finance and people-to-people relations, in order to connect China to key parts of Asia, the south Pacific, east Africa and Europe. Netwo…
Sanctions Reconsidered: The Path Forward with North Korea
There have been regular predictions of North Korea’s imminent collapse. Yet, by adapting to changing circumstances, and finding new supply lines and revenue streams, the state has managed to bypass an increasingly strict sanctions regime aimed at rolling back its nuclear program. This article details the economic flows that continue to keep North Korea alive, against all odds, but argued that these areas are difficult to target as even “smart san…
The South China Sea
Using a conflict transformation framework, this article demonstrates that positive transformations have taken place in the South China Sea between 1991 and 2007. Even though these transformations have been weakened in recent years, particularly regarding the actor aspect, it is concluded that a major armed conflict is still highly unlikely
Global shadow war: A conceptual analysis
The US strategic shift from nation-building to what has been labelled “light footprint” has carried with it a number of changes in the practices used when waging war on terrorism. These activities include covert and clandestine action by special operations and paramilitary forces, and others, operating under a shadowy mandate. It is essential to analyse these changes, due to the nature of the actions taken and the global reach and consequences of…
China’s Maritime Embroilments
China's maritime periphery or ‘‘near seas’’—the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea—are waters through which a great deal of vital commerce flows, as China, Japan, Korea, and numerous Southeast Asian countries are all major trading nations that import the energy and raw materials that sustain their thriving economies. Since 2009 the East and South China Seas have become increasingly fraught with tension. This has generally bee…
The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding
PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK The Paradox of the East Asian Peace PART II: CASE STUDIES Mainland China - Taiwan Relations and the Taiwan Issue The South China Sea and Sino-ASEAN Relations The Korean Nuclear Conflict PART III: CONCLUSIONS Conclusion: Understanding the East Asian Peace
The South China Sea Conflict and Sino-Asean Relations: A Study in Conflict Prevention and Peace Building
This article argues that the South China Sea (SCS) conflict has been a successful case of conflict prevention since the early 1990s, and in fact, that a transformation has occurred, from a fragile peace to a more stable peace. The article asks why there has been, and continues to be, relative peace in the SCS, despite the fact that many factors—as well as predictions by neo-realists and most U.S. policy analysts—point in the direction of military…
Chinese influence on the DPRK negotiations
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMikael WeissmannNiklas Swanström is an associate professor and the Executive Director of the Program for Contemporary Silk Road Studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Correspondence: E‐mail: [email protected] Weissmann is a researcher at the Program for Contemporary Silk Road Studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala Un…
Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative and international order
Under President Xi Jinping's leadership, Chinese foreign relations have moved from keeping a low profile, to a more assertive bid for international leadership that is beginning to take form in the ‘belt and road initiative’ (BRI). This initiative focuses on connectivity in policy coordination, facilities, trade, finance and people-to-people relations, in order to connect China to key parts of Asia, the south Pacific, east Africa and Europe. Netwo…
Sanctions Reconsidered: The Path Forward with North Korea
There have been regular predictions of North Korea’s imminent collapse. Yet, by adapting to changing circumstances, and finding new supply lines and revenue streams, the state has managed to bypass an increasingly strict sanctions regime aimed at rolling back its nuclear program. This article details the economic flows that continue to keep North Korea alive, against all odds, but argued that these areas are difficult to target as even “smart san…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most offensive of them all? – Explaining the offensive bias in military tactical thinking
This article explores why the offensive predominates military tactical thinking. With survey results showing an offensive bias among 60 per cent of senior Swedish officers and as many as 80 per cent in the case of the army, it is clear that this is not just a problem of the past but is equally relevant today. The article asks why there is a tendency to perceive and understand offensive tactics as the preferred choice and the way to conduct battle…
Chinese influence on the DPRK negotiations
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMikael WeissmannNiklas Swanström is an associate professor and the Executive Director of the Program for Contemporary Silk Road Studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Correspondence: E‐mail: [email protected] Weissmann is a researcher at the Program for Contemporary Silk Road Studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala Un…
The South China Sea Conflict and Sino-Asean Relations: A Study in Conflict Prevention and Peace Building
This article argues that the South China Sea (SCS) conflict has been a successful case of conflict prevention since the early 1990s, and in fact, that a transformation has occurred, from a fragile peace to a more stable peace. The article asks why there has been, and continues to be, relative peace in the SCS, despite the fact that many factors—as well as predictions by neo-realists and most U.S. policy analysts—point in the direction of military…
The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding
PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK The Paradox of the East Asian Peace PART II: CASE STUDIES Mainland China - Taiwan Relations and the Taiwan Issue The South China Sea and Sino-ASEAN Relations The Korean Nuclear Conflict PART III: CONCLUSIONS Conclusion: Understanding the East Asian Peace
The South China Sea
Using a conflict transformation framework, this article demonstrates that positive transformations have taken place in the South China Sea between 1991 and 2007. Even though these transformations have been weakened in recent years, particularly regarding the actor aspect, it is concluded that a major armed conflict is still highly unlikely
Global shadow war: A conceptual analysis
The US strategic shift from nation-building to what has been labelled “light footprint” has carried with it a number of changes in the practices used when waging war on terrorism. These activities include covert and clandestine action by special operations and paramilitary forces, and others, operating under a shadowy mandate. It is essential to analyse these changes, due to the nature of the actions taken and the global reach and consequences of…
China’s Maritime Embroilments
China's maritime periphery or ‘‘near seas’’—the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea—are waters through which a great deal of vital commerce flows, as China, Japan, Korea, and numerous Southeast Asian countries are all major trading nations that import the energy and raw materials that sustain their thriving economies. Since 2009 the East and South China Seas have become increasingly fraught with tension. This has generally bee…
Sanctions Reconsidered: The Path Forward with North Korea
There have been regular predictions of North Korea’s imminent collapse. Yet, by adapting to changing circumstances, and finding new supply lines and revenue streams, the state has managed to bypass an increasingly strict sanctions regime aimed at rolling back its nuclear program. This article details the economic flows that continue to keep North Korea alive, against all odds, but argued that these areas are difficult to target as even “smart san…
Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative and international order
Under President Xi Jinping's leadership, Chinese foreign relations have moved from keeping a low profile, to a more assertive bid for international leadership that is beginning to take form in the ‘belt and road initiative’ (BRI). This initiative focuses on connectivity in policy coordination, facilities, trade, finance and people-to-people relations, in order to connect China to key parts of Asia, the south Pacific, east Africa and Europe. Netwo…
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most offensive of them all? – Explaining the offensive bias in military tactical thinking
This article explores why the offensive predominates military tactical thinking. With survey results showing an offensive bias among 60 per cent of senior Swedish officers and as many as 80 per cent in the case of the army, it is clear that this is not just a problem of the past but is equally relevant today. The article asks why there is a tendency to perceive and understand offensive tactics as the preferred choice and the way to conduct battle…
Current Intelligence and Assessments: Information Flows and the Tension between Quality and Speed
This article takes a particular interest in the dynamics between information flows, continuous ongoing assessments, intelligence dissemination, and forward-looking operational advice.The point of departure is the tension between balancing quality (in the sense of in-depth processing of large amounts of information) and speed (meeting requirements of timeliness) in current intelligence assessments.The article takes an explorative approach to pract…
Hybrid Threats and the Intelligence Community: Priming for a Volatile Age
A specific set of challenges facing the intelligence community in a contemporary environment is characterized by composite and dynamic hybrid threats. An understanding of the reciprocal interaction is required between the intelligence actors responsible for intelligence analysis and dissemination, and key societal actors responsible for crafting responses to hybrid threats and building societal resilience. Three processes are identified as critic…
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 works) · Development economics (3 works)