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Showing papers by "Swedish National Defence College published in 2020"


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TL;DR: This article explored children's resistance in relation to the climate emergency through a thematic analysis of climate activist Greta Thunberg's speeches, and two themes, new to the literature, are id...
Abstract: This article explores children’s resistance in relation to the climate emergency through a thematic analysis of climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speeches. Two themes, new to the literature, are id...

60 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, building resilient communities is crucial to reduce potential losses due to climatic and socio-economic changes, and one of the most important steps is to build resilient communities.
Abstract: Hydrogeological hazards are increasingly causing damage worldwide due to climatic and socio-economic changes. Building resilient communities is crucial to reduce potential losses. To this end, one ...

39 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors utilize the Collaborative Governance Databank to empirically explore core theoretical assumptions about collaborative governance in the context of crisis management, and select the core assumptions for crisis management.

33 citations


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TL;DR: This article used a stylized, socio-hydrological model to simulate the mutual feedbacks between human societies and flood event and found that societies' risk perceptions have implications for flood losses.
Abstract: What implications do societies’ risk perceptions have for flood losses? This study uses a stylized, socio-hydrological model to simulate the mutual feedbacks between human societies and flood event ...

27 citations


01 May 2020
TL;DR: This paper used a stylized, socio-hydrological model to simulate the mutual feedbacks between human societies and flood event and found that societies' risk perceptions have implications for flood losses.
Abstract: What implications do societies’ risk perceptions have for flood losses? This study uses a stylized, socio-hydrological model to simulate the mutual feedbacks between human societies and flood event ...

24 citations


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TL;DR: A wealth of research in comparative politics and international relations examines how the military intervenes in politics via coups as discussed by the authors, and they shift attention to broader forms of military involvement in p...
Abstract: A wealth of research in comparative politics and international relations examines how the military intervenes in politics via coups. We shift attention to broader forms of military involvement in p ...

23 citations


Book
19 Mar 2020
TL;DR: This paper showed that elite families and political order evolved in symbiosis throughout European, Central Asian and Middle Eastern history, and that noble families and royal dynasties were preconditi...
Abstract: This book demonstrates that elite families and political order evolved in symbiosis throughout European, Central Asian and Middle Eastern History. Noble families and royal dynasties were preconditi ...

22 citations


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TL;DR: The authors argue that the soft power of the politics of harmony is coercive and has legitimized and enabled oppressive, homogenizing and bellicose expansionism and rule in the West and Japan, and that a similarly structured exercise of soft power may enable violence in and beyond China, too.
Abstract: This article engages with China’s “politics of harmony” to investigate the dangers and possibilities of soft power as a concept and practice. Chinese sources claim that China will be able to exercise soft power due to its tradition of thinking about harmony. Indeed, the concept of harmony looms large in Chinese soft power campaigns, which differentiate China’s own harmonious soft power from the allegedly disharmonious hard power of other great powers—in particular Western powers and Japan. Yet, similarly dichotomizing harmony discourses have been employed precisely in the West and Japan. In all three cases, such harmony discourses set a rhetorical trap, forcing audiences to empathize and identify with the “harmonious” self or risk being violently “harmonized.” There is no doubt that the soft power of harmony is coercive. More importantly, the present article argues that it has legitimized and enabled oppressive, homogenizing and bellicose expansionism and rule in the West and Japan. A similarly structured exercise of soft power may enable violence in and beyond China, too. Ultimately, however, we argue that China’s own tradition of thinking about harmony may help us to theorize how soft power might be exercised be in less antagonistic and violent ways.

18 citations


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TL;DR: The surgical surge capacity differed between university hospitals and county hospitals, and regional differences were identified regarding the availability of surgical theatres and ICU beds.
Abstract: In Sweden the surgical surge capacity for mass casualty incidents (MCI) is managed by county councils within their dedicated budget. It is unclear whether healthcare budget constraints have affected the regional MCI preparedness. This study was designed to investigate the current surgical MCI preparedness at Swedish emergency hospitals. Surveys were distributed in 2015 to department heads of intensive care units (ICU) and surgery at 54 Swedish emergency hospitals. The survey contained quantitative measures as the number of (1) surgical trauma teams in hospital and available after activating the disaster plan, (2) surgical theatres suitable for multi-trauma care, and (3) surgical ICU beds. The survey was also distributed to the Armed Forces Centre for Defence Medicine. 53 hospitals responded to the survey (98%). Included were 10 university hospitals (19%), 42 county hospitals (79%), and 1 private hospital (2%). Within 8 h the surgical capacity could be increased from 105 to 399 surgical teams, while 433 surgical theatres and 480 ICU beds were made available. The surgical surge capacity differed between university hospitals and county hospitals, and regional differences were identified regarding the availability of surgical theatres and ICU beds. The MCI preparedness of Swedish emergency care hospitals needs further attention. To improve Swedish surgical MCI preparedness a national strategy for trauma care in disaster management is necessary.

15 citations


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TL;DR: Both the models of moral distress and of moral injury place an emphasis on various types of moral challenges that may violate the individual's conscience, evoking moral emotions as discussed by the authors. Yet, there appears...
Abstract: Both the models of moral distress and of moral injury place an emphasis on various types of moral challenges that may violate the individual’s conscience, evoking moral emotions. Yet, there appears...

14 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the nature of wildfire in the context of climate change and its framing effects on policy and public opinion are discussed. But the focus of media framing of wildfire has mainly been concerned with the nature and nature of the wildfire.
Abstract: Previous research on media framing of wildfire has chiefly been concerned with the nature of wildfire in the context of climate change and with framing effects on policy and public opinion. Empiric ...

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TL;DR: In this article, the alignment strategies of Nordic countries in the 21st century have been investigated, between the eagle and the bear, and the Nordic countries' alignment strategies in the 20th century.
Abstract: Between the eagle and the bear : Explaining the alignment strategies of the Nordic countries in the 21st century

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TL;DR: The use of collaborations and partnerships that engage a variety of actors from both the public and private spheres has drawn attention during the last decade as a promising strategy for combatting cyber-attacks.
Abstract: The use of collaborations and partnerships that engage a variety of actors from both the public and private spheres has drawn attention during the last decade as a promising strategy for combatting ...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the self-rated leadership behaviors of men and women in female-dominated, male-dominated and mixed-gender work environments and make within-gender comparisons.
Abstract: The aim of the study was to compare the self-rated leadership behaviors of men and women in female-dominated, male-dominated and mixed-gender work environments and make within-gender comparisons ac ...

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TL;DR: In light of the recent turn to "inclusivity" in peacebuilding practice, the authors problematises established ways of "doing critique" in the field of peacebuilding.
Abstract: In light of the recent turn to ‘inclusivity’ in peacebuilding practice, this article problematises established ways of ‘doing critique’ in peacebuilding scholarship. Inclusivity refers to the build ...

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TL;DR: In this article, accountability in safety management affected in and by public-private urban multiroute stations was examined in London and St. Paul's, and major interchanges with newly tunneled lines were investigated.
Abstract: How is accountability in safety management affected in and by public–private urban multiroute stations? To help address this question, major interchanges with newly tunneled lines in London and Sto...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors have warned that authoritarian regimes and other hostile actors are projecting information to inflict harm upon others, but there is little agreement on the natu-tional nature of such information projection.
Abstract: Scholars, states and organisations have warned that authoritarian regimes and other hostile actors are projecting information to inflict harm upon others. Yet, there is little agreement on the natu ...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the diversity of strategies among different categories of states in the Middle-Paces category and find that middle-powers develop similar defense strategies in different countries.
Abstract: Do middle powers develop similar defense strategies? Is middle powers a useful category for exploring the diversity of strategies among different categories of states? This article presents...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors diagnose a representational bias in current scholarship on the materiality and spatiality of urban peacebuilding, which reduces peacebuilding knowledge production to situated proce...
Abstract: This article diagnoses a representational bias in current scholarship on the materiality and spatiality of urban peacebuilding. The bias reduces peacebuilding knowledge production to situated proce...

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01 Feb 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address a problem in the literature on the epistemics and epistemic authority of peacebuilding interventions: the acknowledgement of but lacking attention to plural knowledges, the transgressive character of expertise, and knowledge struggles.
Abstract: Peacebuilding debates increasingly revolve around questions about knowledge and expertise. Of particular interest is what (and whose) knowledge(s) ends up authoritative in interventions. This article addresses a problem in the literature on the epistemics and epistemic authority of peacebuilding interventions: the acknowledgement of but lacking attention to plural knowledges, the transgressive character of expertise, and knowledge struggles. It does this by discussing recent suggestions that peacebuilding epistemic authority can be fruitfully analysed as a Bourdieusian field. The article identifies a tension in Bourdieu's own thinking about fields, which has shaped some of these recent proposals. This tension, nevertheless, also enables a reconsideration of fields and struggles, and thereby an analysis that takes plurality and transgressiveness into account. By developing such an alternative conceptual position, the article sees peacebuilding epistemic authority as object- and struggle-bound; conditioned and dependent on dynamics that go beyond peacebuilding as a distinct field of practice. This position is illustrated in an analysis of the emergence and (temporary) establishment of epistemic authority in peacebuilding interventions on informal economies.

BookDOI
01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this article, debates revolving around the role and challenges of military families have developed into an important subfield in military sociology, and throughout history, military families throughout history have been the focus of many debates.
Abstract: Over the past decades, debates revolving around the role and challenges of military families have developed into an important subfield in military sociology. Throughout history, military families h ...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how contemporary military training and exercises shape and reify specific modalities of war and how military training has shifted from being individual-and experience-oriented to being experience-based.
Abstract: This article analyzes how contemporary military training and exercises shape and reify specific modalities of war. Historically, military training has shifted from being individual- and experience- ...

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TL;DR: Gender differences have been observed regarding many political and social issues, yet comprehensive evidence on differences in perceptions on a wide range of security issues increasingly impo... as discussed by the authors,...
Abstract: Gender differences have been observed regarding many political and social issues, yet welack comprehensive evidence on differences in perceptions on a wide range of securityissues increasingly impo ...

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TL;DR: In this article, a special issue dedicated to broadening the perspective on military cohesion from the narrow focus on 20th and 21st Western state militaries was published, with a focus on the role of women in military cohesion.
Abstract: In October 2018, Armed Forces & Society published a special issue dedicated to broadening the perspective on military cohesion from the narrow focus on 20th and 21st Western state militaries an ...

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: The role of American exceptionalism and the liberal theory of history as constitutive features of US identity and their influence on the formulation of economic, and especially trade, policy on Japan and China is discussed in this article.
Abstract: This chapter briefly introduces the relevant previous scholarship on US-Chinese and US-Japanese economic relations and on ideas, discourse and identity in International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) more broadly. It addresses the role of American exceptionalism and the liberal theory of history as constitutive features of US identity and their influence on the formulation of economic, and especially trade, policy on Japan and China. A final section focuses on the identity/difference question in scholarship on liberalism and connects it to questions on the link between ‘identity’ and ‘othering’ in poststructuralist scholarship, which are addressed in more detail in Chap. 3.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a strategy to develop units that can fight independent, high-intensity conventional war against a peer adversary, without relying on a high-level command and control system.
Abstract: As armies across Europe are currently developing capabilities to fight a high-intensity conventional war against a peer adversary, these armies will have to develop units that can fight independent...

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TL;DR: For example, European states may no longer expect inter-state violence, but they do expect complex threats emanating from storms, epidemics, terror attacks and earthquakes as discussed by the authors, and the EU has answered these threats thr...
Abstract: European states may no longer expect inter‐state violence, but they do expect complex threats emanating from storms, epidemics, terror attacks and earthquakes. The EU has answered these threats thr ...

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TL;DR: The English school of international relations is in large parts focused on the study of historical change; at the same time, however, it is remarkably unclear on how to understand change in between.
Abstract: The English school of international relations is in large parts focused on the study of historical change; at the same time, however, it is remarkably unclear on how to understand change in between ...

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TL;DR: Cost escalation for many complex defence equipment is arguably not sustainable as mentioned in this paper, and customer driven requirements have led to an exponential increase in costs by pushing frontiers of technology to suppo.....
Abstract: Cost escalation for many complex defence equipment is arguably not sustainable. Customer driven requirements have led to an exponential increase in costs by pushing frontiers of technology to suppo...

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TL;DR: The results show that the H-PTSD group reported significantly more daily hassles, fewer daily uplifts, and more use of maladaptive coping strategies, and the results on the hassle, uplift, and coping scales are potentially interesting from an interventional point of view.
Abstract: Experiencing trauma, such as sexual abuse, increases the risk of a negative health outcome. The aim of the present study was to compare two groups of female survivors of sexual abuse, one group with a lower indication of posttraumatic stress disorder (L-PTSD) and one with a higher indication of posttraumatic stress disorder (H-PTSD). We hypothesized that, with a history of sexual abuse, higher levels of PTSD symptoms would be associated with more daily hassles, fewer daily uplifts, and more maladaptive coping strategies, and that there would be more reporting of severe types of sexual victimization, less resourceful socioeconomic conditions and a lower level of emotional stability. A questionnaire, including measures of socioeconomic conditions, trauma experience, emotional stability (the Single-Item Measures of Personality), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL), daily hassles and uplifts (the Stress Profile), and coping strategies (the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced [COPE] questionnaire), was completed by 57 female users at nine support centers for survivors of incest and sexual abuse in Norway. The results show that the H-PTSD group reported significantly more daily hassles, fewer daily uplifts, and more use of maladaptive coping strategies. The L-PTSD group reported more emotional stability, fewer daily hassles, and more uplifts, and used more adaptive coping strategies. However, few differences were found between the H-PTSD and the L-PTSD groups with regard to severity of sexual abuse and socioeconomic conditions. The results on the hassle, uplift, and coping scales are potentially interesting from an interventional point of view. Major life events such as sexual abuse may be out of control for the afflicted victim. Appraisal of and coping with everyday events, however, can be affected and offer interesting possibilities for interventions directed at the survivor, her significant others, and professional helpers.