Department of Security and Strategic Studies
The Department of Security and Strategic Studies (ISS) is characterised by being an academic environment with unique competencies. At this department, students are partly educated within the framework of the military programmes and partly in individual civlian programmes. The department, which comprises five sections and two centres, is directed by the Head of department, colonel Jan Mörtberg.
Research and education is carried out in the following fields
Security policy
War studies with a military-strategic bias
Political science with a bias towards crisis management and international cooperation
International law with a focus on the international law of military operations
Attached to the department are also
National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART) (external link, new window)
CATS - the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies
IHT - Institute for National Defence and Security Policy Studies
Programme on European Security Research
Clients
Our main clients are:
The Swedish Armed Forces (external link, new window)
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (external link, new window)
Cooperation with universities and university colleges nationwide and internationally
The links below are external links and open in a new window.
Contact
Head of Department
Colonel Jan Mörtberg
Tel: +46 8 553 427 01
E-mail: jan.mortberg@fhs.se