Mikael Weissmann
Lektor, Docent
- Mikael.Weissmann@fhs.se
- +46 8-55342580
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Om Mikael
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Docent Dr Mikael Weissmann is a Senior Lecturer in Systems Science for Defence and Security in the Department of Systems Science for Defence and Security at the Swedish Defence University. He is also an Associate Professor in War Studies and an Affiliated Researcher at the Swedish Defence University Centre for Wargaming (CWG). He co-convenes the Hybrid Threats Research Group (HTRG) and serves as the Principal Investigator of the project “Building Resilience and Psychological Defence: Countering Hybrid Threats and Foreign Influence and Interference.”
Weissmann has previously held positions at, among others, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), the University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has been a visiting fellow at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (Serbia), the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), and at Peking University, Renmin University, and China Foreign Affairs University (China).
Weissmann is the lead editor for the books Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and Operations (Oxford University Press, 2023), Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (I.B. Tauris, 2021), and Russia’s War in Ukraine and Modern Warfare (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and for two special issues in Asian Perspective (2019) and Asian Survey (2015). He is also co-editor of the book Russian Warfare and Influence: States in the Intersection between the East and West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). His work has appeared in journals like International Affairs, the Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, Washington Quarterly, Defence Studies, Asian Survey, and Asian Perspective. Weissmann is also the author of the monograph The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Weissmann’s research focuses on Security, Strategy and Intelligence. His work is structured around six themes:
1) Hybrid Threats
2) Resilience & Psychological Defence
3) Intelligence analysis
4) Technology & Defence
5) Modern Warfare
6) China and the Indo-Pacific
In addition, Weissmann is interested in Teaching & Learning within Professional Military Education (PME), particularly practical and scenario-based exercises and assessments with special emphasis on staff rides and wargames.
He currently pursues research in a number of areas, including:
- Hybrid threats and whole-of-society defence, focusing on foreign influence and interference.
- Psychological Defence, focusing on the building resilience and psychological defence
- Intelligence Analysis, particularly the role of AI and the private sector and the dissemination of intelligence in the information environment in Strategic Early Warning.
- Technology and Defence, focusing on military innovation and the role of AI and autonomous systems in warfare.
- Russian Warfare and Influence, with a particular interest in Ukraine, the Balkans and Central Asia.
- Military Operations and Tactics, in particularly Urban Warfare and the ole of technology.
- China’s foreign policy and role in the world (including its role in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Global South, and the implication of the second Trump Administration).
- Security and Strategy in the Indo-Pacific.
- Foreign Influence and Local Adaptation in Post-Colonial States under Great-Power Influence (focusing on Central Asia and the Middle Corridor).
- Teaching & Learning in PME, focusing on staff rides, wargames, and scenario-based learning approaches.