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  • Individual and Societal Consequences of Military Service with Peter Bäckström – What Would Milton Friedman Say?

    Individual and Societal Consequences of Military Service with Peter Bäckström – What Would Milton Friedman Say?
    Dec 19 2024

    What do we know about the long-term consequences of being in military service, as a conscript, and as a deployed soldier? We have invited one of our contributors, Peter Bäckström, to talk about the public perception of veterans, individual and societal consequences of military service, and the challenges of doing research within this field.

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    28 min
  • Pregnant Soldiers with Christine Svop - What Would Rose Schneiderman Say?

    Pregnant Soldiers with Christine Svop - What Would Rose Schneiderman Say?
    Oct 10 2024

    The idea of the able-bodied soldier is discussed in this episode of SJMS Talks, with SJMS-contributor Christine Svop and host Daniel Møller Ølgaard. Svop published a study in 2021 about pregnant soldiers in the Danish army, offering several practice-oriented recommendations of gender mainstreaming, as well as discussing how the pregnant body poses a threat to the social identity of the soldier.
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    28 min
  • Nuclear Psychosis with Carina Meyn - What Would Bernard Brodie Say?

    Nuclear Psychosis with Carina Meyn - What Would Bernard Brodie Say?
    Sep 27 2024
    The backdrop of this episode is the recent revelations from Süddeutsche Zeiting, NDR an Delfi in Germany about the Russian Social Design Agency, planning to induce a nuclear psychosis in the Western population. One of our contributors, Carina Meyn, has been doing extensive fieldwork among security experts in the US, dealing with nuclear weapons. She joins our host Daniel Møller Ølgaard in the studio.
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    28 min
  • Peace in the Middle East with Isabel Bramsen - What Would Randall Collins Say?

    Peace in the Middle East with Isabel Bramsen - What Would Randall Collins Say?
    Sep 12 2024
    In this episode, Isabel Bramsen joins the studio with our new host, Daniel Møller Ølgaard – one of the chief editors of SJMS. The two political scientists discuss peace in the Middle East, and the benefits of a micro-sociological perspective on peace and conflict studies. SJMS-contributor Bramsen recently published the book The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
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    28 min
  • Fortification with David Betz - What Would Vauban Say?

    Fortification with David Betz - What Would Vauban Say?
    Mar 22 2024
    Contributor Professor David Betz visits the podcast to talk about the future of warfare. Rather than pointing to novel information technologies as war’s driving force, David turns to techniques from the past, such as citadel and marching forts, arguing that drivers of future warfare at best is technological in origin only secondary, and that rather than tactics of maneuvering, tactics of fortification is key when looking at the future of warfare.
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    26 min
  • Russian Logistics with Thomas Ekström and Per Skoglund. What Would Eccles Say?

    Russian Logistics with Thomas Ekström and Per Skoglund. What Would Eccles Say?
    Mar 21 2024
    There seems to be something true to the logistics experts saying: “In peace time we talk about war, in war time, we talk about logistics.” One of the most read articles in our journal tries to elaborate on the failing logistics on the Russian side early in the war. Contributors Thomas Ekström and Per Skoglund are in the studio to discuss what is their take on how Russian logistics have evolved throughout the war, and how it might evolve in the future.
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    27 min
  • Cyber Militia with Dan Svantesson – What Would Captain Crunch Say?

    Cyber Militia with Dan Svantesson – What Would Captain Crunch Say?
    Feb 16 2024
    Lessons from the war in Ukraine indicate that in future emergencies a kind of cyber militia might be useful to have. But what is a cyber militia? How should it be governed? And what roles can it perform? Contributor Dan Jerker Svantesson is invited to the podcast, to talk about cyber defence post Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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    20 min
  • Ukraine's Popular Resistance with David Kilcullen - What Would Lawrence of Arabia Say?

    Ukraine's Popular Resistance with David Kilcullen - What Would Lawrence of Arabia Say?
    Feb 9 2024
    Groups such as the Popular Resistance of Ukraine and the Atesh partisan movement of Crimea have taken credit for several attacks on Russian soldiers and military infrastructures. Is there anything new about these forms of popular resistance? And what is the future of unconventional warfare? To answer these questions, we have invited one of the world’s leading voices on irregular warfare and counterinsurgency, David Kilcullen.
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    32 min