Niklas Karlén

Senior Lecturer

About Niklas

Engelsk beskrivning om dig själv: Niklas Karlén is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

Dr. Karlén's main areas of expertise include military interventions, civil wars, and proxy warfare. His current research focuses on external state support to warring parties, invitations to intervene, control of non-state armed groups, escalation processes, and frozen conflicts. Dr. Karlén’s work has appeared in outlets such as International Security, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, International Studies Review, Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, European Journal of International Security and Civil Wars. In his research, he uses a broad range of methods ranging from inferential statistics and social network analysis to comparative case studies and process tracing. Dr. Karlén mainly teaches courses on research design, methods, proxy warfare, interventions, and covert operations at the MA and PhD levels at the Swedish Defence University. He has twice received ‘best teacher’ awards for his pedagogical approach based on active student learning.

 Interventions
 External Support
 Proxy Warfare
 Civil Wars
 Covert Action
 US Foreign Policy

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