Russian Warfare and Influence : States in the Intersection Between East and West

Mikael Weissmann is an Associate Professor and the Head of Research and Deputy Head of the Land Operations Section at the Swedish Defence University. He is a member of CSCAP-EU and co-convenor of the the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG) and the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG). He has held positions at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Copenhagen-, Uppsala- and Stockholm University and has been a Visiting Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) (Singapore), University of Warwick (UK) and Peking-, Renmin-, and China Foreign Affairs University (China). Weissmann received his PhD in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg (2009) and he is a docent in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University (2016). He also holds a M.Soc.Sci. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University (2003), and a BA in International Relations and Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia (2000).

Niklas Nilsson is Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, where he is also a co-convenor of the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG) and the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG). Nilsson is a Research Fellow with the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute and the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He has previously held research and teaching positions at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, including as research coordinator for the Swedish Network of European Studies, and at Södertörn University. Nilsson has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at George Washington University and a Visiting Fellow at Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) and Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He received his PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University (2015) and holds an MA in Political Science from Lund University (2006).