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Mikael Weissmann

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Om Mikael

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Docent Dr Mikael Weissmann is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Systems at the Department of Systems Science for Defence and Security, Swedish Defence University. He currently serves as Acting Director of the Land Warfare Centre, and is also an Associate Professor in War Studies and Affiliated Researcher at the university’s Centre for Wargaming (CWG).

He co-convenes the Hybrid Threats Research Group (HTRG) and is Principal Investigator of the project “Building Resilience and Psychological Defence: Countering hybrid threats and foreign influence and interference.”

Weissmann has previously held positions at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has been a visiting fellow at institutions including the European Union Centre in Taiwan at the National Taiwan University, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the University of Warwick, and Peking University, Renmin University, and China Foreign Affairs University.

He is the lead editor of several volumes, including:

Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and Operations (Oxford University Press, 2023),
Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (I.B. Tauris, 2021),
Russia’s War in Ukraine and Modern Warfare (forthcoming, Oxford University Press),
and co-editor of Russian Warfare and Influence: States in the Intersection between the East and West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
Weissmann’s work has appeared in journals such as International Affairs, Washington Quarterly, Defence Studies, Asian Survey, Asian Perspective, and the Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. He is also the author of the monograph The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Research Interests
Weissmann’s research focuses on Security, Strategy, and Intelligence, structured around the following six core themes:

Hybrid Threats
Resilience and Psychological Defence
Intelligence Analysis
Technology and Defence
Modern Warfare
China and the Indo-Pacific
He also maintains a strong interest in Teaching and Learning in Professional Military Education (PME) — particularly in practical, scenario-based instruction, such as staff rides and wargames.

Current Research Areas
He is currently pursuing projects in the following areas:

Hybrid Threats and Whole-of-Society Defence — with emphasis on foreign influence and interference.
Psychological Defence — focusing on resilience-building and cognitive security.
Intelligence Analysis — especially the roles of AI and the private sector in strategic early warning and intelligence dissemination.
Technology and Defence — including military innovation, AI, and autonomous systems.
Russian Warfare and Influence — with regional focus on Ukraine, the Balkans, and Central Asia.
Military Operations and Tactics — particularly urban warfare and the role of emerging technologies.
China’s Foreign Policy and Global Role — including its influence in Ukraine, the Middle East, the Global South, and under a potential second Trump administration.
Security and Strategy in the Indo-Pacific.
Foreign Influence and Local Adaptation — examining post-colonial states under great-power competition, especially in Central Asia and the Middle Corridor.
Teaching and Learning in PME — emphasising staff rides, wargaming, and scenario-based educational models.
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