Check out the rest of the volume here, edited by brilliant colleagues Kira Vrist Rønn, Adam Diderichsen, Mia Hartmann & Melanie Hartvigsen: www.routledge.com/Intelligence...
Drawing on an archive of job ads, this chapter analyses the Swedish SIGINT agency's recent recruitment efforts and practical transformation into a Big Tech player focusing increasingly on in-house development of digital surveillance and computer hacking systems.
New publication (OA): 'Recruiting the Swedish intelligence professional'. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
An interview about my latest research article on the academisation of the officer corps in Sweden. www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...
It argues that the recent integration of officer education in universities is only the latest stage in a 200 year long effort of mobilising academic capital for purposes of legitimating the warrior class and maintaining the standing of the military profession.
This is the first text in my new project on professional military education, with a focus on basic officer education in Sweden. It explores how the military academy has served as an extension of Norbert Elias’ ’civilising process’.
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/...
"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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