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Larsdotter, K. (2023). Identity, Disciplinarity and Doctoral Education: The Case of War Studies. Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift (2), 13-30
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Identity, Disciplinarity and Doctoral Education: The Case of War Studies
2023 (English)In: Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift, ISSN 0023-5369, no 2, p. 13-30Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Krigsvetenskaplig forskning är central för vår förståelse av krig och krigföring och utgör denvetenskapliga grunden för officersutbildningen i Sverige. När Försvarshögskolan startade sitt doktorandprogram i krigsvetenskap hösten 2019 var en milstolpe uppnådd för studiet av krig och krigföring i Sverige. En framgångsrik forskarutbildning i krigsvetenskap garanterar en kontinuerlig tillväxt av forskare med expertkunskap om krig och försvar i en svenskkontext. En framgångsrik forskarutbildning kräver dock att doktoranden socialiseras in i en forskningsmiljö, och problem i socialiseringsprocessen riskerar leda till att doktoranden inteklarar att slutföra sin utbildning. I denna artikel analyseras förutsättningarna för en framgångsrik socialiseringsprocess för doktorander i krigsvetenskap i Sverige. Utifrån teorier om disciplinäritet, d v s vikten av det akademiska ämnets (disciplinens) roll i socialiseringsprocessen, analyseras debatten om krigsvetenskapens natur. Enligt resultaten är krigsvetenskap både interdisciplinärt, d v s en blandning av flera vetenskapliga ämnen, och transdisciplinärt, d v s har en nära relation till praktiken. Detta riskerar att försvåra doktorandernas socialiseringsprocess. Flera förslag för hur handledare och forskningsmiljön i övrigt ska kunna motverka dessa problem på bästa sätt diskuteras i artikeln.

National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
War Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-12117 (URN)
Available from: 2024-01-11 Created: 2024-01-11 Last updated: 2024-01-12Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2020). Enhancing European Security?: The Strategy of Military Assistance. In: Janne Haaland Matlary and Rob Johnson (Ed.), Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO (pp. 251-264). London: Hurst & Company
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Enhancing European Security?: The Strategy of Military Assistance
2020 (English)In: Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO / [ed] Janne Haaland Matlary and Rob Johnson, London: Hurst & Company , 2020, p. 251-264Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Hurst & Company, 2020
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9599 (URN)978-1-78738-391-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-01-02 Created: 2021-01-02 Last updated: 2021-08-20Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2020). Military Strategy and Peacekeeping: An Unholy Alliance?. In: Kersti Larsdotter (Ed.), Military Strategy in the 21st Century: (pp. 37-57). London & New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Military Strategy and Peacekeeping: An Unholy Alliance?
2020 (English)In: Military Strategy in the 21st Century / [ed] Kersti Larsdotter, London & New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 37-57Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Despite the increased use of military force in peacekeeping operations in the twenty-first century, these operations are not included in traditional strategic theory. In this article, I outline the logic of four strategies for peacekeeping operations – defence, deterrence, compellence and offence – and trace the use of these strategies in two consecutive UN operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: MONUC and MONUSCO. The article concludes that all four strategies are indeed used in the two operations, but they are neither comprehensive nor proactive, leaving the true potential of military strategy unrealised.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London & New York: Routledge, 2020
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9602 (URN)9780367441531 (ISBN)
Note

The chapters of this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Available from: 2021-01-02 Created: 2021-01-02 Last updated: 2021-01-07Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2020). Military Strategy in the 21st Century. In: Kersti Larsdotter (Ed.), Military Strategy in the 21st Century: (pp. 1-16). London & New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Military Strategy in the 21st Century
2020 (English)In: Military Strategy in the 21st Century / [ed] Kersti Larsdotter, London & New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 1-16Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London & New York: Routledge, 2020
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9601 (URN)9780367441531 (ISBN)
Note

The chapters of this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Available from: 2021-01-02 Created: 2021-01-02 Last updated: 2021-01-07Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (Ed.). (2020). Military Strategy in the 21st Century. London & New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Military Strategy in the 21st Century
2020 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Military Strategy in the 21st Century explores military strategy and the new challenges facing Western democracies in the twenty-first century, including strategy in cyber operations and peacekeeping, challenges for civil-military relations, and the strategic choices of great powers and small states.

The volume contributes to a better understanding of military strategy in the twenty-first century, through exploring strategy from three perspectives: first, the study of strategy, and how our understanding of strategy has changed over time; second, new areas for strategic theory, such as peacekeeping and cyberspace; and third, the makers of strategy, and why states choose suboptimal strategies.

With the increasing number of threats challenging strategy makers, such as great power rivalry, terrorism, intrastate wars, and transnational criminal organisations, Military Strategy in the 21st Century will be of great value to scholars of IR, Security Studies, Strategic Studies, and War Studies as well as policymakers and practitioners working with military strategy in particular and international security and war in general. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London & New York: Routledge, 2020. p. 153
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9600 (URN)9780367441531 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-01-02 Created: 2021-01-02 Last updated: 2021-01-07Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2019). Military Strategy and Peacekeeping: An Unholy Alliance?. Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(2), 191-211
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Military Strategy and Peacekeeping: An Unholy Alliance?
2019 (English)In: Journal of Strategic Studies, ISSN 0140-2390, E-ISSN 1743-937X, Vol. 42, no 2, p. 191-211Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Despite the increased use of military force in peacekeeping operations in the twenty-first century, these operations are not included in traditional strategic theory. In this article, I outline the logic of four strategies for peacekeeping operations – defence, deterrence, compellence and offence – and trace the use of these strategies in two consecutive UN operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: MONUC and MONUSCO. The article concludes that all four strategies are indeed used in the two operations, but they are neither comprehensive nor proactive, leaving the true potential of military strategy unrealised.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2019
Keywords
military strategy, use of force, coercion, peacekeeping, MONUC, MONUSCO
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8935 (URN)10.1080/01402390.2018.1559156 (DOI)
Available from: 2020-01-14 Created: 2020-01-14 Last updated: 2020-01-16Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2019). Military Strategy in the 21st Century. Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(2), 155-170
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Military Strategy in the 21st Century
2019 (English)In: Journal of Strategic Studies, ISSN 0140-2390, E-ISSN 1743-937X, Vol. 42, no 2, p. 155-170Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This special issue explores military strategy in the twenty-first century. The articles scrutinise strategy from three perspectives: the study of strategy, and how our understanding of strategy has changed over time; new areas for strategic theory, i.e., areas where the development of war has made strategy become more important, such as peacekeeping operations and cyberspace;and the makers of strategy, more specifically why states choses suboptimal strategies and how wars in the twenty-first century influence strategy makers.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2019
Keywords
strategy, strategic studies, strategic theory, strategy makers, new wars
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8936 (URN)10.1080/01402390.2018.1559151 (DOI)
Available from: 2020-01-14 Created: 2020-01-14 Last updated: 2020-01-16Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2016). Politiske konsekvenser av robotiserte systemer. In: Tor Arne Schjander Berntsen, Gjert Lage Dyndal & Sigrid Redse Johansen (Ed.), Når dronene våkner: autonome våpensystemer og robotisering av krig (pp. 305-326). Oslo: Cappelen Damm AS
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Politiske konsekvenser av robotiserte systemer
2016 (Norwegian)In: Når dronene våkner: autonome våpensystemer og robotisering av krig / [ed] Tor Arne Schjander Berntsen, Gjert Lage Dyndal & Sigrid Redse Johansen, Oslo: Cappelen Damm AS, 2016, p. 305-326Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oslo: Cappelen Damm AS, 2016
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6445 (URN)9788202495794 (ISBN)
Available from: 2017-01-04 Created: 2017-01-04 Last updated: 2017-01-09Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2015). Security Assistance in Africa: The Case for Less. Parameters, 45(2), 25-34
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Security Assistance in Africa: The Case for Less
2015 (English)In: Parameters, ISSN 0031-1723, E-ISSN 2158-2106, Vol. 45, no 2, p. 25-34Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

US strategic approaches in the African Great Lakes region are primarily based on security assistance for training and equipping African forces for operations in East, North, and West Africa. This assistance risks causing more incidents of violence. A new strategy, based on a comprehensive approach to the security challenges in the region, as well as the deployment of international "boots on the ground" - American or others - is needed to reduce violence and to minimze the risk of new terrorist safe havens appearing in central Africa.

National Category
Political Science
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-5566 (URN)
Available from: 2015-09-03 Created: 2015-09-03 Last updated: 2017-12-04Bibliographically approved
Larsdotter, K. (2014). Fighting Transnational Insurgents: the South African Defence Force in Namibia, 1966-1989. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 37(12), 1024-1038
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Fighting Transnational Insurgents: the South African Defence Force in Namibia, 1966-1989
2014 (English)In: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, ISSN 1057-610X, E-ISSN 1521-0731, Vol. 37, no 12, p. 1024-1038Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Transnational insurgents are a common feature of contemporary wars, but research on how to address this problem is still scarce. This article examines the South African Defence Force's (SADF) counterinsurgency against Namibian transnational insurgents. It concludes that the South African forces focused a large amount of their efforts outside the borders of Namibia. Highly coercive operations in Angola and Zambia created the space for hearts and minds activities in Namibia, as well as forcing neighboring states to end their support for the insurgents. Although the war in Namibia is somewhat different from contemporary wars, SADF's cross-border strategy gives us some important insights into the regional dynamics of civil wars.

National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Krigsvetenskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-5120 (URN)10.1080/1057610X.2014.962440 (DOI)
Available from: 2015-01-08 Created: 2015-01-08 Last updated: 2017-12-05Bibliographically approved
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