Research subject International Security

This project aims to understand how military conflict and a deteriorating security environment influence the production of collective memories and historical narratives of war and conflict.

Between 2023 and 2025, Stockholm University, commissioned by the Swedish Food Agency, conducted a project to explore how the food and drinking water supply systems in Ukraine and Poland were impacted by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A feminist comparison of NATO discourses in Finland and Sweden 1991-2024

The research project investigates how the Sami people’s exemption from military conscription in Sweden came about. It thereby contributes new and important knowledge about racism and discrimination against the Sami and the role of conscription the in settler colonial expansion of nation-states.

This project examines how countries suffering from food insecurity can develop coping mechanisms and be supported by the international community.

The project explores how technological and societal changes affect the understanding and practice of psychological defence in contemporary Sweden.

Climate change adaptation has become one of the world's top priorities, currently being handled by an array of local, national and international actors.

The project studies the return and potential effects of military conscription through a qualitative comparison of how the institution has been envisioned and legitimated by political and military officials in four European countries.

Today’s international security problems have unique characteristics. They emerge incrementally, over time and space, deepening and interacting with various conditions that hamper effective responses.