Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network Perspective
This study aims to contribute to our knowledge of civil-military collaboration within the framework of contemporary Swedish total defence planning and organizing. The exploratory study focuses on perspectives on collaboration among civilian and military actors at the local and regional levels of the...
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| description | This study aims to contribute to our knowledge of civil-military collaboration within the framework of contemporary Swedish total defence planning and organizing. The exploratory study focuses on perspectives on collaboration among civilian and military actors at the local and regional levels of the Swedish total defence network. Empirically, the study draws on official documents, policies, reports and interviews with civilian and military officials in Sweden. The analysis explores assumptions about, and understandings of, roles, relationships, shared goals, responsibilities and governance, pointing to several potential challenges to inter-organizational and inter-group collaboration. The study, showing how understandings and perspectives held by collaborators serve to shape the nature of their relations, identifies a potential need for collaborative actors, civil and military, capable of performing a “double grasp” – that is, of representing their organization while understanding and handling their counterpart’s perspective on (and often lack of knowledge about) their own organization and requirements. The article identifies several avenues for future research into civil-military collaboration in practice, and across country contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-76b5cf9344b14fb79376c01020e9bef02025-02-11T05:42:28ZengScandinavian Military StudiesScandinavian Journal of Military Studies2596-38562025-01-018140–5640–5610.31374/sjms.288281Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network PerspectiveLotta Victor Tillberg0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-2801Joakim Berndtsson1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1352-1158Peter Tillberg2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5589-3147Södertörn University and The Swedish Centre for Studies of Armed Forces and SocietySchool of Global Studies, University of GothenburgKTH Royal Institute of Technology and The Swedish Centre for Studies of Armed Forces and SocietyThis study aims to contribute to our knowledge of civil-military collaboration within the framework of contemporary Swedish total defence planning and organizing. The exploratory study focuses on perspectives on collaboration among civilian and military actors at the local and regional levels of the Swedish total defence network. Empirically, the study draws on official documents, policies, reports and interviews with civilian and military officials in Sweden. The analysis explores assumptions about, and understandings of, roles, relationships, shared goals, responsibilities and governance, pointing to several potential challenges to inter-organizational and inter-group collaboration. The study, showing how understandings and perspectives held by collaborators serve to shape the nature of their relations, identifies a potential need for collaborative actors, civil and military, capable of performing a “double grasp” – that is, of representing their organization while understanding and handling their counterpart’s perspective on (and often lack of knowledge about) their own organization and requirements. The article identifies several avenues for future research into civil-military collaboration in practice, and across country contexts.https://account.sjms.nu/index.php/sms-j-sjms/article/view/288civil-military collaborationsecurity networkstotal defencesweden |
| spellingShingle | Lotta Victor Tillberg Joakim Berndtsson Peter Tillberg Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network Perspective Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies civil-military collaboration security networks total defence sweden |
| title | Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network Perspective |
| title_full | Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network Perspective |
| title_short | Navigating Collaboration: Understanding Civil-Military Interactions in Swedish Total Defence From a Security Network Perspective |
| title_sort | navigating collaboration understanding civil military interactions in swedish total defence from a security network perspective |
| topic | civil-military collaboration security networks total defence sweden |
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