My recent publications in chronological order

• (2021). “Att möta hybridhot och hybridkrigföring” (with Niklas Nilsson and Björn Palmertz), Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift [Proceedings and Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences], No 4, 2021: 185-87. OPEN ACCESS Full text available from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10666. 
• (2021). Hybrid warfare: security and asymmetric conflict in international relations. London: I.B. Tauris. (Lead editor, co-editing with Niklas Nilsson, Per Thunholm, & Björn Palmertz.) OPEN ACCESS, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hybrid-warfare-9781788319621/ (Individual Chapters), Complete volume (pdf),  
• (2021) “Security challenges in the grey zone: Hybrid threats and hybrid warfare” (with Niklas Nilsson, Palmertz, Björn, Thunholm, Per & Häggström, Henrik) in Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations, eds, Mikael Weissmann, Niklas Nilsson, Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, London: I.B. Tauris , 2021, s. 1-18. OPEN ACCESS
• (2021) “Conceptualizing and countering hybrid threats and hybrid warfare: The role of the military in the grey zone” in Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations, eds, Mikael Weissmann, Niklas Nilsson, Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, London: I.B. Tauris , 2021, s. 61-82. OPEN ACCESS
• (2021) “Moving out of the blizzard: Towards a comprehensive approach to hybrid threats and hybrid warfare” (with Niklas Nilsson & Björn  Palmertz) in Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations, eds, Mikael Weissmann, Niklas Nilsson, Björn Palmertz and Per Thunholm, London: I.B. Tauris , 2021, s. 263-272. OPEN ACCESS
• (2021) Hybrid Threats and Hybrid Warfare: Time for a Comprehensive Approach? (with Niklas Nilsson & Björn Palmertz)RSIS Commentary, CO21094, 14 June, 2021, Full text: https://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/rsis/hybrid-threats-and-hybrid-warfare-time-for-a-comprehensive-approach/.
• (2021) “Comprehending Hybrid Threats and Hybrid Warfare: The Hybridity Blizzard Model” (with Niklas Nilsson & Björn Palmertz) in Збірник тез І Міжнародної наукової конференції «Воєнні конфлікти та техногенні катастрофи: історичні та психологічні наслідки» (до 35 роковин аварії на Чорнобильській АЕС) [Abstracts collection of the I International scientific conference of “Military conflicts and technogenic disasters: historical and psychological consequences” (to the 35 th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster)], Тернопіль: ФОП Паляниця В. А. , 2021, pp. 97-100.
• (2020) “Military Strategic Communication at the Tactical Level in Counterinsurgency Operations: The case of Sweden in Afghanistan,” (with Elin Norrman) Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift [Proceedings and Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences], No 3, 2020: 19–47. OPEN ACCESS Full text available from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9509
• (2020) Essäer om markoperationer och taktik [Essays on Land Operations and Tactics], Försvarshögskolan, Militärvetenskapliga institutionen (MVI), Taktikavdelningen (TA), Marksektionen (Mark). Editor with LtCol Daniel Rydberg.
• (2020) “Att leda markoperationer” [Leading Ground operations] (with LtCol Daniel Rydberg, in Mikael Weissmann & Daniel Rydberg, Att leda markoperationer [Leading Ground Operations], KUNGL KRIGSVETENSKAPSAKADEMIENS Handlingar och Tidskrift, Bihäfte, 2020. OPEN ACCESS
• (2020) Building Peace and Prosperity – The Role of Elite Networks in ASEAN and Beyond, RSIS Policy Report, July, 2020. Available at https://www.rsis.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PR200730_Building-Peace-and-Prosperity.pdf
• (2020) “Capturing Power Shift in East Asia: Toward an Analytical Framework for Understanding “Soft Power”,” Asian Perspective, 44(3): 353-382  OPEN ACCESS DOI: 10.1353/apr.2020.0016
• (2019) “Hybrid warfare and hybrid threats today and tomorrow: towards an analytical framework”, Journal on Baltic Security, OPEN ACCESS https://doi.org/10.2478/jobs-2019-0002
• (2019) “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most offensive of them all? – Explaining the offensive bias in military tactical thinking,”  (with Peter Ahlström) Defence Studies, 19:2, pp. 170-188. OPEN ACCESS DOI: 10.1080/14702436.2019.1599287 
• (2019) Introduction to the Special Issue: Power, Narratives, and the Role of Third Parties: Understanding Power (Shift) in East Asia, Asian Perspective, 43(2), Mikael Weissmann & Mingjiang Li, Guest Editors, pp. 215-221, DOI: 10.1353/apr.2019.0008 
• (2019) Understanding Power (Shift) in East Asia: The Sino-US Narrative Battle about Leadership in the South China Sea, Asian Perspective, 43(2), pp. 223-248, OPEN ACCESS DOI: 10.1353/apr.2019.0009 
• (2018) “Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative and international order” Volume 94, Issue 2, pp. 231–249 (with Astrid H. M. Nordin), OPEN ACCESS https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix242 
• Hybrid Threats and Asymmetric Warfare : What to do? (with Hickman, K., Nilsson, N., Bachman, S.-D., Gunneriusson, H., & Thunholm, P) Conference proceedings from the conference “Hybrid Threats and Asymmetric Warfare: What to do?”, Stockholm 14-15 November, 2017 (published Feb 2018).
• ”Offensivens roll i taktiskt tänkande: Slaget vid Caporetto 1917”[The role of the offensive in tactical thinking: the case of Caporetto 1917] (with Peter Ahlström) in Tommy Jeppsson, ed, Tankar om defensiven, Stockholm: Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademien och Försvarshögskolan. 2018. OPEN ACCESS
• Sweden’s approach to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Still a glass half-empty  (with Elin Rappe), UI Paper, No.1, September 2017.
• “Endast genom anfall kan ett avgörande nås: Varför dominerar offensiven militärt taktiskt tänkande?” (with Övlt Peter Ahlström), Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar & Tidskrift [Proceedings and Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences], No 2 April/June, 2017:6-18. OPEN ACCESS
• Sanctions Reconsidered: the Path Forward with North Korea” (with Linus Hagström), The Washington Quarterly, 39:3, 61-76, 2016. OPEN ACCESS DOI: 10.1080/0163660X.2016.1232635 
• “”One Belt, One Road” in the Swedish Context” (with Elin Rappe). In Europe and China’s New Silk Roads, 2016, pp. 60–62.
• “”Endast genom anfall kan ett avgörande nås” – Varför dominerar offensiven militärt taktiskt tänkande?” (med ÖvLt Peter Ahlström), Working paper, juni 2016, Sektionen för markoperationer, Militärvetenskapliga institutionen Försvarshögskolan
• “Global shadow war: a conceptual analysis”, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Vol. 8, Iss. 3, 2015 (with Markus Lyckman)[Link to full text of published version]
  [Link to accepted version for web (PDF)]
• “The South China Sea: Still no War on the Horizon”, Asian Survey, 55(3), May/June 2015: 596-617.
• ”China’s Maritime Embroilments” (with Lowell Dittmer), Asian Survey, 55(3), May/June 2015: 447-454. I am co-editor for this special issue, which is the outcome of a conference I organised on “Collaboration at Sea”.
• “Chinese Foreign Policy in a Global Perspective: A Responsible Reformer “Striving For Achievement”“, Journal of China and
  International Relations, 3(1), 2015: 151-166.
• China and Russia – A Study on Cooperation, Competition and Distrust (with Märta Carlsson & Susanne Oxenstierna), Report no FOI-R- -4087-SE, Stockholm: Swedish Defence Research Agency, 2015, pp.100.
• Keeping alive: Understanding North Korea’s supply lines and the potential role of sanctions, UI Paper No. 6/2014, Stockholm: The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 2014.
• “Chinese Soft Power and ASEAN’s Constructive Engagement: Sino-ASEAN relations and the South China Sea”, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Issue 15 (March 2014). [English] [Bahasa Indonesian] [Japanese] [Thai]
• “Why is there a relative peace in the South China Sea?” in Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Entering Uncharterd Waters? ASEAN and The South China Sea Dispute, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
• A European Strategy towards East Asia: moving from good intentions to action, UI Occasional Paper No. 19, Stockholm: The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 2013.
• The East Asian Peace: Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• ”Kinas mjuka makt – Finns den? Vad betyder den?”, Kinarapport 4/2012, 2012: pp. 28-31.
• “The South China Sea Conflict and Sino-ASEAN Relations: A Study in Conflict Prevention and Peace Building”, Asian Perspective, 34: 3, 2010.
• Understanding the East Asian Peace Informal and formal conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea 1990-2008, PhD thesis in Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies, 2009.
• “Peacebuilding in East Asia: The Role of Track II Diplomacy, Informal Networks, and Economic, Social and Cultural  Regionalisation” in Jacob Bercovitch, Kwei-Bo Huang, Chung-Chian Teng (eds), Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia: Third-Party Mediation and Intervention between China and Taiwan, London: Routledge, 2008.
• 将地区化与冲突防治联系起来 [Linking Regionalisation and Conflict Provention: the case of China in East Asia] in Zhongqi Pan (ed), 国际责任与大国战略 [International  Responsibility  and  Strategy of Great Powers], Shanghai:  Shanghai  People’s Publishing House, 2008: pp. 127-146.
• The Missing Link – bridging between social movement theory and conflict resolution, GARNET Working Paper, No. 60/08, October 2008.
• Conflict, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management and beyond: a conceptual exploration (with Niklas L.P. Swanström), Uppsala & Washington: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, 2005.
• “Introduction” (with Niklas Swanström and Emma Björnehed), in Niklas L.P. Swanström (Ed), Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Northeast Asia, Uppsala & Washington: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, 2005.
• “Informal Networks as a Conflict Preventive Mechanism“, in Niklas L.P. Swanström (Ed), Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Northeast Asia, Uppsala & Washington: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, 2005.
• “Can China Untie the Gordian Knot in North Korea?”, (with Niklas L.P. Swanström), Korean Journal of International Studies, 31:1, 2004.
• “The Chinese Impact on the DPRK Negotiations” (with Niklas L. P. Swanström), Peace Review, 16:2, 2004.
• Early Warning Indicators for Preventive Policy – a new approach to Early Warning Research (with Gerd Hagmeyer-Gaverus), SIPRI Working Paper, March 2003.

Op-eds etc

• DN Debatt: ”Allt bör göras för att bygga relationer med Nordkorea” [Everything should be done to build relations with North Korea] (with Linus Hagström and Ulv Hanssen), DN Debatt, 13 September, 2017.
  Linus Hagström, Ulv Hanssen, Mikael Weissmann
• DN Debatt: ”Hot och isolering fel strategi i konflikten med Nordkorea” [Threats and isolation is the wrong strategy against North Korea] (with Linus Hagström and Ulv Hanssen), DN Debatt, 14 April, 2013.
• ”En plats för nästa krig? Spänningarna ökar i Sydkinesiska sjön” [The next war? Increased tensions in the South China Sea], Internationella Studier, No 1, 2013: pp. 38-39.
• ”Kan Nordkorea avväpnas?” [Can North Korea be disarmed?], Internationella Studier, August 2011.
• ”Nordkorea måste hanteras varsamt” [North Korea must be handled cautiously] (with Linus Hagström), op-ed, Göteborgs-Posten, 26 May, p. 43.
• “The (new) North Korean Crisis: what can be expected and what should be done as a response to the sinking of the Cheonan corvette” (with Linus Hagström), In Focus blog, the Nordic Institure of Asian Studies, 25 May 2010.
• “Understanding the East Asian peace: some findings on the role of informal processes“, Asia Insights 2/2009, 2009.
• Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Northeast Asia – Conference Report (with Niklas L.P. Swanström, Emma Björnehed and Liu Yue), Conference proceedings from the Program for Contemporary Silk Road Studies Conference on “Conflict prevention and Conflict Management in Northeast Asia”, Beijing 26-28 November, 2004, Uppsala & Washington: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, 2005.