Why do grad students often struggle with research problems despite available methods? As a sequel to ,
@KarlGustafsson5
& I delve into the vital role of anxiety in research. Read more in our new article in
@EPSJournal
!
The Swedish Defence University
@Forsvarshogsk
advertises one or more positions as senior lecturer in political science with a focus on security studies. Please help me spread as widely as possible and consider applying!
A year ago, I published an article
@ISQ_Jrnl
, developing the concept of “great power
#narcissism
.” I asked: Why do self-representations of weakness pervade self-identified great powers & intersect with ones of greatness? 1/5
Very pleased to see that my autobiographical essay “Becoming a traitor” has been downloaded 6,700 times in less than four years, making it the third most read article ever in
@LifeWritingJnl
.
I guess it remains relevant for three reasons.
Various fully paid PhD positions opening at
@Forsvarshogsk
: in political science, war studies, leadership, military history, law etc. Still a few weeks to go before deadline.
Call for applications: 1-2 fully funded and salaried PhD positions in political science with a focus on crisis management and security and a specialization on information security at
@Forsvarshogsk
. Deadline 3 Nov.
Political science
@Forsvarshogsk
currently advertises 5 fully salaried positions as PhD student in security studies and crisis management, one of which has a focus on intelligence and one on climate security and crisis. Deadline 7 August. Please spread!
@Forsvarshogsk
(Swedish Defence Uni) advertises 4 salaried positions as PhD student in political science w a specialization in crisis management and security - one has a focus on climate crisis/security. Starting date: January 2024. Please spread the word!
I’m very happy that my autobiographical piece on Ōe Kenzaburō, Japan, aikido, identity, the ambiguous and myself has been read more than 1000 times in just three months, thus being the most read article in
@LifeWritingJnl
in the last year. It’s open access
Happy to have received a 3-year research grant together from
@Vetenskapsradet
together with
@Prof_Hagstrom
for the project "Societal Security and Threats to Democracy". Looking forward to carrying out this project!
På
@DNKultur
publicerar jag idag en delvis annorlunda analys av Sverige & Nato: Att gå med i Nato har framställts som en närmast teknokratisk och riskfri manöver. Det är ett exempel på hur säkerhetspolitikens inneboende osäkerhet underskattas eller döljs.
Deadline approaching on 7 August: a fully paid PhD position in political science with a focus on climate security/crisis at
@Forsvarshogsk
in Stockholm. Starting date: Jan 2024. Please spread!
Thanks to those who read and shared my essay “Becoming a Traitor” on Twitter last week, generating 750 new reads! I’m happy and grateful that my story about what it felt like to discuss NATO in public in Sweden back in 2015 resonates with a many people 🙏
We’re delighted to host an open lecture
@Stockholm_Uni
on Tue 22 Aug on Japan’s Democratic Backsliding with Prof Koichi Nakano /
@knakano1970
. More info here:
Post-
#ISA2023
walk around beautiful Montreal and free-flowing discussions with my great friend Hans Agné from
@Stockholm_Uni
. Thanks
@isanet
for the four precious days here and I’m already looking forward to the next one, in a warmer climate.
Deadline 7 Aug: a salaried PhD position in political science with a focus on
#intelligence
studies
@Forsvarshogsk
in Stockholm. Please spread the word and have a look also at our other four advertised positions.
I very much agree w
@ProfPaulPoast
’s analysis and would argue that the Russian way of trying to secure great power identity neatly fits with the emotional cocktail of shame, hubristic pride and insult in “great power narcissism”
🔥 Really happy that our article on Sweden as an Other during COVID-19 and othering practices more generally, coauthored with
@CWagnsson
&
@HerrLadulas
, has been assigned to an issue of
@CoCo_journal
. It’s open access! 🔥
@Forsvarshogsk
/ Swedish Defence University is currently advertising one or more positions as Senior Lecturer in Political Science with a specialization in Security Studies. Please spread!
As
#Russia
threatens
#Ukraine
, the pro-NATO camp in Swedish politics and public debate is reenergized. I published an article in
@CoCo
-journal last year, on the emotional and bodily aspects of the Swedish NATO debate 1/7
A few years before today became my daughter’s birthday, it was the day that I defended my PhD thesis exactly twenty years ago. Time flies!
Among others, I later wrote this
@EuroJournIR
article based on the thesis:
Jag har skrivit en liten text om hur de säkerhetspolitiska begreppen användes, och hur deras mångtydiga och omstridda natur underskattades och doldes, i den svenska analysen och debatten av Nato-frågan
@AftonbladetK
My autobiographical piece on Japan, aikido, security, Ōe Kenzaburō, ambiguity and myself, published in
@LifeWritingJnl
, has been downloaded 1998 times in 10 months. Please help me get to 3000 without passing 2000 😁
Thrilled to share my personal essay, which was just assigned to an issue in
@LifeWritingJnl
.
In it, I engage in a dialogue with Kenzaburo Oe’s Nobel speech, narrating about my relationship to aikido, Japan, ambiguity and peace.
About to leave Tokyo after a hectic ten days of interviews, meetings and catching up with old friends. I’m grateful to everyone who helped me make this stay so productive and meaningful!
#ISA2024
I plan to submit two paper abstracts and would love to join panel proposals:
#1
On emotions - particularly shame, pride and feelings of insult - in the context of Japan’s security policy
#2
On ontological security and Sweden’s decision to join Nato
Send me a DM!
🧵 1/3
Jag deltog i SVT Agenda igår och berättade om mina erfarenheter av och forskning om den svenska Natodebatten, och min forskning om säkerhet mer generellt: 🧵
Just a little more than a week to go before deadline: up to three fully paid PhD positions in Political Science at
@Forsvarshogsk
in beautiful Stockholm
Är det någon mer än jag som har noterat att ”väst” allt oftare förekommer i svensk medierapportering, till synes som beteckningen på ett distinkt geografiskt område eller en civilisation med en entydig uppsättning värderingar?
Did 🇨🇳 or 🇺🇸 win the narrative power battle over the meaning of
#COVID19
? In this paper,
@KarlGustafsson5
and I use a mixed-methods approach for analyzing narratives. We find that “strategic narratives” were surprisingly useless 🧵
There are surely many ways to explain the Swedish desire to join NATO, which now seems to come to fruition. One pertains to characteristics of the security policy debate:
I hope this initiative, which I co-lead with my colleague Prof. Charlotte Wagnsson, will help us do even more research related to narratives and security.
Narrative Research Lab är en nyinrättad forskargrupp vid Försvarshögskolan med syftet att producera och sprida kunskap om hur narrativ – berättelser om samhället och världen – påverkar den politiska verkligheten i en värld som är alltmer digitaliserad.
@ChengxinPan
& my new article just appeared in the print version of
@AJPandH
. This is our puzzle: Why in recent years has
#Australia
been leading the world in its hawkish approach to
#China
, its largest trading partner? 1/4
Det är en farlig utveckling att svenska politiker ger sig på enskilda forskare på detta sätt. Jag har mejlat
@BeckaForsberg
och
@AzadehRojhan
och frågat om de kan belägga sina anklagelser mot
@rparsi
men jag har inte fått svar än. 🧵
”Att svenska politiker sprider nidbilder och försöker stoppa en fri forskare och en öppen demokratisk debatt är mycket allvarligt.”
Viktigt uttalande från
@UISweden
och direktör
@HallgrenJakob
till stöd för den fria forskningen och den fria åsiktsbildningen.
I asked Derek Beach the same question a few years ago, since I thought most process-tracing did not live up to the strict but reasonable criteria of his and Rasmus Brun Pedersen’s excellent book.
Any recommendations for political science articles that actually use process tracing in a literal/explicit way? Not just "I use 'process tracing' by which I mean some vague historical analysis," but literally try to follow best practices from methodologists, etc.
Two weeks to go before the deadline. We’re looking to hire one or more senior lecturers in Political Science with a specialization in security studies
@Forsvarshogsk
🧵
Political science
@Forsvarshogsk
currently advertises 5 fully salaried positions as PhD student in security studies and crisis management, one of which has a focus on intelligence and one on climate security and crisis. Deadline 7 August. Please spread!
@KarlGustafsson5
and I seem to be trending with our latest article on the insecurity of doing research and the “so what”-question in political science 🥳 Please find the article here
Trending in
#PoliticalScience
:
1) The insecurity of doing research & the ‘so what question’ in political science(
@epsjournal
)
2) Free public transit & voter turnout (
@electoralstdies
)
3) A Randomized Intervention to Help Underrepresented Students…
Ett på många sätt upprörande beslut från
@moderaterna
och resten regeringen.
Mina tankar går till er alla som lagt tid på att skriva de VR-ansökningar som nu inte kommer att granskas.
@Forsvarshogsk
advertises a tenure track position as Associate Senior Lecturer (“assistant professor”) in Political Science with a focus on Crisis Management and Security and specialization on Climate. Please help me spread this call!
If you’ll be in
#Tokyo
on October 31, and have an interest in Sweden’s
#NATO
membership application, please feel free to attend this seminar at Tokyo University, under the auspices of the Japan-Sweden Society.
Congratulations again on a fine thesis and great defence Dr
@havardmarkussen
and thanks for playing the role as opponent so excellently Prof
@NiklasBremberg
!
The Swedish Defence University is hiring two substitute senior lecturers in political science from January 2023 and for one year. Please spread to newly minted PhDs and other colleagues without a permanent job:
Thanks
@d_chernobrov
for inviting
@KarlGustafsson5
and me to speak about our article on the Sino-US struggle over the meaning of COVID-19, on 4 May at 1500
@Forsvarshogsk
(Swedish Defence Uni) advertises 4 salaried positions as PhD student in political science w a specialization in crisis management and security - one has a focus on climate crisis/security. Starting date: January 2024. Please spread the word!
En artikel i
@omni_red
innehåller kommentarer från mig och andra angående hur den svenska offentligheten har hanterat NATO-skeptiker och vad som tappades bort i analysen inför en svensk NATO-ansökan. Några av mina huvudpoänger i en 🧵
‘Cracking the “So What” Code by Facing Anxiety in Research’ - a teaser for
@KarlGustafsson5
’s and my longer article () just appeared in
@E_IR
.
Thanks
@MattiSpara
for the invitation!
Hur skrev utländska medier om Sverige under coronapandemin? Ny forskning från
@Forsvarshogsk
av
@CWagnsson
@HerrLadulas
och mig jämför Sverigebilden i 🇺🇸 , 🇩🇪 och 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇩🇰
Hur diskuterades Sverige i andra länder under första månaderna av
#corona
-pandemin? Ny forskning från av mig, Charlotte Wagnsson och
@HerrLadulas
från
@Forsvarshogsk
påvisar mycket intressanta skillnader mellan de nordiska länderna, USA och Tyskland 🔥
The Swedish Defence University
@Forsvarshogsk
advertises one or more positions as senior lecturer in political science with a focus on security studies. Please help me spread as widely as possible and consider applying!
I wrote a short and hopefully quite accessible text for Japan Up Close, based on
@NiklasBremberg
and my recent
@EuroJournIR
article "Aikido and World Politics".
Understanding defense through the context of Aikido | Japan Up Close
@Forsvarshogsk
advertises a tenure track position as Associate Senior Lecturer (“assistant professor”) in Political Science with a focus on Crisis Management and Security and specialization on Climate. Please help me spread this call!
”Att svenska politiker sprider nidbilder och försöker stoppa en fri forskare och en öppen demokratisk debatt är mycket allvarligt.”
Viktigt uttalande från
@UISweden
och direktör
@HallgrenJakob
till stöd för den fria forskningen och den fria åsiktsbildningen.
Utrikespolitiska institutet beklagar föreningen Folk och försvars beslut att stryka en programpunkt med UI-forskaren Rouzbeh Parsi vid den årliga rikskonferensen i Sälen i januari.
⬇️
@HanssenUlv
and I just published an opinion piece in
@east_asia_forum
arguing that NATO engagement in East Asia risk increasing tensions between China and NATO and binding China and Russia closer together, with few tangible benefits for European security.
This
#autobiographical
piece just appeared in the literature journal Life Writing. It's a dialogue with literature laureate Kenzaburo
#Oe
's 1994
#Nobel
speech, which I take as point of departure for narrating about
#Japan
, the ambiguous and myself
My analysis of the Swedish NATO debate 2014-18 became quite topical this spring, and the article has been one of the most downloaded in
@CoCo_journal
. It’s open access:
The article performs a thought experiment, arguing that aikido provides the protagonists in world politics with lessons of how to live with never-ending insecurities and the risk of attack without producing precisely the outcomes that they wish to avoid. 2/5
I learnt from Gunnar’s research on power as a PhD student and then had the honor and pleasure of being his colleague
@UISweden
for about a decade. There are so many good memories— I make sure to cite Gunnar’s many funny remarks often—and I miss him a lot.
Today we said goodbye to an institution
@UISweden
and a highly cited scholar ahead of his time. Gunnar Sjöstedt (1943-2022) gave us countless insights into int’l negotiations, EU actorness, and climate governance. And that wonderful laugh! Obit here 👇
What does ontological security have to do w/ Putin's invasion of Ukraine?
I think it offers more insight than other explanations & also hints that Putin may be willing to go lengths that would otherwise be deemed irrational.
@BrentJSteele1
@JenniferMitzen
This is another short spinoff article, meant to introduce how facing anxiety can help us develop our research problems, that is the topic
@KarlGustafsson5
and I discuss more thoroughly in our recent article in
@EPSJournal
:
😰 Anxiety is widespread in academia.
In a blog from 📗
@EPSJournal
research,
@KarlGustaffson5
&
@Prof_Hagstrom
argue that it is not unequivocally negative, but can also be a creative force. Anxiety can help us develop better ideas - and do better research
Jag deltar i
@svenskafreds
Fredspodden och pratar lite om min mormor, det komplicerade säkerhetsbegreppet och den svenska
#Natodebatten
, från minut 24.
Jag har noterat kritiker av
@rparsi
brukar säga att han är a) förrädare, b) lobbyist åt Iran eller c) i vissa frågor säger samma sak som Irans makthavare. De första två anklagelserna är mycket allvarliga och måste kunna beläggas på något annat sätt än genom att hänvisa till (c).
Grateful to
@CoCo_journal
and Editor
@AnnikaBjorkdahl
for including my recent article on the Swedish NATO debate in a special collection with articles “of relevance to the Ukrainian Situation”
🇺🇦Strong analysis & solid facts are important to understand current Russian war in Ukraine.
@CoCo_journal
gives open access to articles on Ukraine in CoCo 🇺🇦
#WeStandWithUkraine
Min skarpa praktikant
@LukasVikinge
har publicerat en analys om relationerna mellan 🇸🇪 & 🇯🇵 på
@freeworldforum
:
Sverige och Japan: en allians mot Kina? -
Congratulations
@IntlStudiesRev
and editor
@AmandaMurdie
to a fantastic achievement. I had a great experience with the journal a few years ago and often recommend colleagues and students both to consult it and and consider it as a possible venue for new research!
What fantastic news! It's our team's last year as editors of
@IntlStudiesRev
. Impact factors just came out, and we couldn't be happier. Thanks to our authors, readers, reviewers, and friends!
I too am happy to be part of this new
@HorizonEU
project “Reconnect China”, which is coordinated by
@ugent
and led in Sweden by
@bjornjerden
at
@UISweden
. Looking forward to writing an article with
@SCWinkler
, probably on narratives and China’s international relations 😊
En kul beskrivning av Kalles och min senaste artikel, som beskriver den som ”mångbottnad, bångstyrig och fundamentalt ifrågasättande” 🥰
Länk till den artikel som beskriver artikeln finns i ursprunglig tweet nedan.
Länk till vår artikel:
"Gustafsson och Hagström sätter ord på ett gemensamt problem och erbjuder några konstruktiva vetenskapsteoretiska verktyg för att hantera det. Låt oss använda dem, och visa nya doktorander en väg att ta sig igenom ångesten!"
Ahead of today’s exciting event at
@InfoOiip
I walked around beautiful but rainy Vienna and by chance sighted Austrian President
@vanderbellen
and his Slovenian counterpart Pirc Musar
@govSlovenia
.
Happening today at 16:00!
Neutrality, alignment and democracy in times of war:
A closer look at the Finnish and Swedish NATO accession processes
With Henri Vogt
@UniTurku
,
@Prof_Hagstrom
@Forsvarshogsk
Chair:
@sannastrand
More info 👇
The article offers guidance for students & professors on how to tackle various insecurities related to research. We suggest that compelling problems can be developed by using anxiety as a catalyst for creativity and by constructing narratives that embrace uncertainty.
Hur beskrevs
#Sverige
utomlands under pandemins första 8 månader? Denna nya artikel skriven med Charlotte Wagnsson och
@HerrLadulas
@Forsvarshogsk
jämför Sverigebilden i USA, Tyskland och de andra nordiska länderna och visar på viktiga skillnader.
#COVID19
NY FORSKNING från
@Forsvarshogsk
publicerad i
@CoCo_journal
:
Ny analysmodell visar nyanser i internationella medienarrativ om Sverige under coronapandemin: