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- Larsson, Oscar, Assistant professor, 1978-
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Post-structuralism
- 2023
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Ingår i: Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. - Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781803921228 ; , s. 475-478
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- Larsson, Oscar, Assistant professor, 1978-
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Responses to Grey Zone and Hybrid Threats : How Much Resilience Is Enough
- 2024
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Ingår i: ISA 2024 Annual Convention, Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies, 2024, s.25. - San Francisco : International Studies Association.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A security discourse that resides upon the concepts of the grey zone and hybrid threats iscurrently emerging among international security actors and policy-makers. In the currentsecurity environment, it is assumed that antagonistic actors threaten democratic statesthrough a range of hybrid threats aimed at instilling confusion and inertia concerning how torespond and disrupting political and administrative capacity. This article analyzes thisdiscourse and the policy responses that have been proposed, noting that the key organizingconcept in responding to hybrid threats is resilience. This concept is potentially problematicin that resilience has been critically examined as controversial and political in nature insofaras it promotes programmatic preparedness and social control, demanding that civil society,market actors, and individuals “rally ‘round the flag” and contribute to wide-ranging nationalsecurity management. Proponents of this view nonetheless continue to present resilience asa panacea for current security problems. This article reveals, however, that resilience is aproductive and organizing concept and practice that is presented without the necessaryboundaries and limits. This illustrates the need for a critical discussion concerning how muchresilience is enough.
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- Larsson, Oscar, Assistant professor, 1978-
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Technocracy, Governmentality, and Post-Structuralism
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Ingår i: Critical review (New York, N.Y.). - : Informa UK Limited. - 0891-3811 .- 1933-8007. ; 32:1-3, s. 103-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The technocratic dimension of government—its reliance upon knowledge claims, usually in scientific guise—is of great importance if we wish to understand modern power and governance. In Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy, Jeffrey Friedman investigates the often-overlooked question of the relationship between technocratic knowledge/power and ideas. Friedman’s contribution to our understanding of technocracy can therefore be read as a contribution to governmentality studies, one that introduces the possibility of adding normative solutions to this critical tradition.
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- Larsson, Oscar, Assistant professor, 1978-
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The connections between crisis and war preparedness in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Security Dialogue. - : SAGE Publications. - 0967-0106 .- 1460-3640. ; 52:4, s. 206-324
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary liberal and democratic states have ‘securitized’ a growing number of issues by advancing the notion of societal security. This is coupled with a proactive stance and the conception of building societal resilience in order to withstand future crises and disturbances. The preemptive logic of contemporary security and crisis management calls for a new type of resilient neoliberal subject who is willing to accept uncertainty and shoulder greater individual responsibility for her own security. This article offers a genealogical analysis of this development in Sweden since the end of the Cold War, highlighting the role now assigned to citizens within social and national security planning. I argue that seeking a return to a more traditional notion of ‘total defence’ blurs the previously important war/peace and crisis/security distinctions. While war preparedness in previous eras was an exceptional aspect of human life and citizenship, the conceptions of security now evolving bind together societal and national security such that civil and war preparedness are merged into an ever-present dimension of everyday existence. The analysis also reveals that the responsibilization of individuals introduces a moral dimension into security and generates new forms of citizen–citizen relations. These extricate the sovereign powers of the state and the liberalist social contract between the state and its citizens.
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- Larsson, Oscar, Assistant professor, 1978-, et al.
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The European Union as a Maritime Security Provider – The Naval Diplomacy Perspective
- 2022
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Ingår i: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1057-610X .- 1521-0731.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to assess how the European Union advances its role as a global security actor and how it deploys the military forces provided by the member states. Tracing the current debate of the identity and means of the European Union, we analyze the two maritime operations, EU NAVFOR Somalia (Operation Atalanta) and EUNAVFOR MED (Operation Sophia) from a naval diplomacy perspective. Naval diplomacy acknowledge a more versatile role for naval forces, not just military advancement and force projection. For this purpose, we need to go beyond mission descriptions and operational mandates in order to analyze and assess the two operations from within, relying on internal reports and interviews with senior officers who have participated in the operations. Results show that naval forces seeks cooperation with International organizations, NGOs, and third countries in order to facilitate security and good order of the global common of international water. Still, complex security problems are not resolved in this manner and EU maritime operations are highly political, thus facing an uncertain future as a tool of CSDP.
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