Mikael Weissmann
Docent, Universitetslektor, Studierektor
Krigsvetenskap
Organisation
Institutionen för krigsvetenskap och militärhistoria
Markavdelningen

Om Mikael
- Beskrivning
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Dr. Mikael Weissmann is an Associate Professor in War Studies and the Head of Research and Deputy Head of the Land Operations Division at the Swedish Defence University. He is also the Director of Studies for the PhD program in War Studies. Weissmann is a member of CSCAP-EU and the convenor of the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG) and co-convenor of the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG).
Weissmann has previously held positions at, among others, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Copenhagen University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has been a visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and Peking University, Renmin University, and China Foreign Affairs University in China.
Weissmann holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg (2009) and is a docent in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (2016). He also holds an M.Soc.Sci. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University (2003) and a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia (2000).
Weissmann is the author of the monograph The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the lead editor for the forthcoming edited book Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (I.B. Tauris, 2021) as well as for two Special Issues in Asian Perspective (2019) and Asian Survey (2015). His work has appeared in International Affairs, Washington Quarterly, Defence Studies, the Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Asian Survey and Asian Perspective.
Besides the Swedish Defence University, Weissmann has been teaching at Stockholm-, Uppsala-, Gothenburg- and Södertörn University and at Renmin-, Peking- and China Foreign Affairs University in China.
Weissmann’s research focuses on security, strategy, and warfare. His expertise includes:
– Land Power
– Military operations and tactics
– Urban Warfare
– Hybrid threats- and warfare
– Intelligence analysis
– Military tactical thinking
– China and East Asian security and strategy broadly defined.
His research on China and East Asia focuses on China’s foreign policy and role in the world, with a special focus on China and Global Power Shifts. He has a particular interest in:
- the Belt and Road initiative
- the South China Sea
- the North Korean nuclear conflict
- the Taiwan Issue
Weissmann has also pursued research on track-two diplomacy, conflict management, and peacebuilding as well as Sino-Russian and Europe’s relations with China and East Asia.
Senaste publikationer
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Att möta hybridhot och hybridkrigföringIngår i Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift
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Comprehending Hybrid Threats and Hybrid Warfare : The Hybridity Blizzard ModelIngår i Збірник тез І Міжнародної наукової конференції «Воєнні конфлікти та техногенні катастрофи: історичні та психологічні наслідки» (до 35 роковин аварії на Чорнобильській АЕС) [Abstracts collection of the I International scientific conference of "Military conflicts and technogenic disasters: historical and psychological consequences" (to the 35 th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster)]
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Conceptualizing and countering hybrid threats and hybrid warfare : The role of the military in the grey zoneIngår i Hybrid Warfare : Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations
Mikael Weissmann
Dr. Mikael Weissmann is an Associate Professor in War Studies and the Head of Research and Deputy Head of the Land Operations Division at the Swedish Defence University. He is also the Director of Studies for the PhD program in War Studies. Weissmann is a member of CSCAP-EU and the convenor of the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG) and co-convenor of the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG).
Weissmann has previously held positions at, among others, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Copenhagen University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has been a visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and Peking University, Renmin University, and China Foreign Affairs University in China.
Weissmann holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg (2009) and is a docent in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (2016). He also holds an M.Soc.Sci. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University (2003) and a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia (2000).
Weissmann is the author of the monograph The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the lead editor for the forthcoming edited book Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (I.B. Tauris, 2021) as well as for two Special Issues in Asian Perspective (2019) and Asian Survey (2015). His work has appeared in International Affairs, Washington Quarterly, Defence Studies, the Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Asian Survey and Asian Perspective.
Besides the Swedish Defence University, Weissmann has been teaching at Stockholm-, Uppsala-, Gothenburg- and Södertörn University and at Renmin-, Peking- and China Foreign Affairs University in China.
Weissmann’s research focuses on security, strategy, and warfare. His expertise includes:
– Land Power
– Military operations and tactics
– Urban Warfare
– Hybrid threats- and warfare
– Intelligence analysis
– Military tactical thinking
– China and East Asian security and strategy broadly defined.
His research on China and East Asia focuses on China’s foreign policy and role in the world, with a special focus on China and Global Power Shifts. He has a particular interest in:
- the Belt and Road initiative
- the South China Sea
- the North Korean nuclear conflict
- the Taiwan Issue
Weissmann has also pursued research on track-two diplomacy, conflict management, and peacebuilding as well as Sino-Russian and Europe’s relations with China and East Asia. Försvarshögskolan Universitetslektor
Weissmann has previously held positions at, among others, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Copenhagen University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has been a visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and Peking University, Renmin University, and China Foreign Affairs University in China.
Weissmann holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg (2009) and is a docent in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (2016). He also holds an M.Soc.Sci. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University (2003) and a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia (2000).
Weissmann is the author of the monograph The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the lead editor for the forthcoming edited book Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (I.B. Tauris, 2021) as well as for two Special Issues in Asian Perspective (2019) and Asian Survey (2015). His work has appeared in International Affairs, Washington Quarterly, Defence Studies, the Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Asian Survey and Asian Perspective.
Besides the Swedish Defence University, Weissmann has been teaching at Stockholm-, Uppsala-, Gothenburg- and Södertörn University and at Renmin-, Peking- and China Foreign Affairs University in China.
Weissmann’s research focuses on security, strategy, and warfare. His expertise includes:
– Land Power
– Military operations and tactics
– Urban Warfare
– Hybrid threats- and warfare
– Intelligence analysis
– Military tactical thinking
– China and East Asian security and strategy broadly defined.
His research on China and East Asia focuses on China’s foreign policy and role in the world, with a special focus on China and Global Power Shifts. He has a particular interest in:
- the Belt and Road initiative
- the South China Sea
- the North Korean nuclear conflict
- the Taiwan Issue
Weissmann has also pursued research on track-two diplomacy, conflict management, and peacebuilding as well as Sino-Russian and Europe’s relations with China and East Asia. Försvarshögskolan Universitetslektor