Researcher
Political Science & Intelligence Analysis
Main Research and Teaching Areas
- Intelligence Analysis
- Counterintelligence & espionage
- Decision-making
- Tactical deception & manipulation
Current Research
Tony Ingesson defended his dissertation, concerning the strategic and political implications of military decision-making at the lower levels (ship captains and leaders on the squad, platoon, company and battalion levels), on May 13th, 2016. Currently, his main research focus concerns intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, deception/manipulation and the development of methods in intelligence analysis. In addition, he has also studied the historical links between conscription and democratization from a historical perspective.
Current Teaching
Tony Ingesson primarily teaches Political Science (qualitative methods) and Intelligence Analysis (methods, bias, psychological mechanisms, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, deception). He has also taught in courses on international relations, theories on armed conflict (inter- and intrastate), the EU, terrorism and international law.
Publications
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Tactical Communications and Secrecy in Contemporary Conflict : Historical and Technological Perspectives
Tony Ingesson
(2024) Intelligence and contemporary conflict : Information and Communication in Diplomacy, Statecraft and War
Book chapterSpy Hunters in a High-Trust Society : A Study of Secrecy, Suspicion, and Cooperation in Swedish Counterintelligence in the 1980s
Tony Ingesson
(2024) Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies : Scandinavian Exceptionalism?
Book chapterUkraine war: why the Russian army is still using morse code more than a century after its invention
Tony Ingesson
(2024) The Conversation
Journal articleUkraine war: why the Russian army is still using morse code more than a century after its invention
Tony Ingesson
(2024) The Conversation
Journal articleMilitary conscription is returning to Europe, but is it really a more equal way of mobilising? What history tells us
Tony Ingesson
(2024) The Conversation
Newspaper articleWeaponized genomics : potential threats to international and human security
Subhayan Chattopadhyay, Tony Ingesson, Alberto Rinaldi, Oscar Larsson, J J Widen, et al.
(2024) Nature Reviews. Genetics, 25 p.1-2
Journal article (letter)Wargaming cancer: a strategy for future precision oncology?
David Gisselsson Nord, Tony Ingesson
(2023) Trends in Cancer, 9 p.697-699
Journal articleInnovators, Copycats, or Pragmatists? Soviet Industrial Espionage and Innovation in the Military Aerospace Sector during the Cold War
Tony Ingesson
(2023) International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 36 p.816-846
Journal articleClandestine Communications in Cyber-Denied Environments : Numbers stations and radio in the 21st century
Tony Ingesson, Magnus Andersson
(2023) Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 19 p.144-165
Journal articleWeaponized Genomics: New Threats to International Security and Human Rights
Alberto Rinaldi, Subhayan Chattopadhyay, David Gisselsson Nord, Tony Ingesson, Oscar Larsson, et al.
(2023) Nature Reviews. Genetics
Journal article (comment)Beyond Blame : What Investigations of Intelligence Failures can Learn From Aviation Safety
Tony Ingesson
(2022) International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 35 p.527-542
Journal articleSchattenberg, Susanne, 2021. Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman. London: I.B. Tauris
Tony Ingesson
(2022) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 124 p.571-575
Review”Vladimir Putin har kunnat utnyttja en i internationella sammanhang ofta underskattad faktor: osäkerhet.”
Tony Ingesson
(2022) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleAntagonistens roll : Vad Napoleon och KGB kan lära oss om beslutsfattandets konst inom militär ledning och underrättelseanalys
Tony Ingesson
(2020) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 122 p.655-668
Journal articleConscription, Citizenship, and Democracy
Tony Ingesson
(2020) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Article in encyclopediaKontraspionage och hybridkrigföring : En fallstudie av kuppförsöket i Montenegro 2016
Tony Ingesson
(2020) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 122 p.449-462
Journal articleAnticipating the Zombie Apocalypse: Using Improbability to Teach Intelligence Analysis
Tony Ingesson
(2019) International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 32 p.379-390
Journal articleWhat Does It Mean to be a Military Professional?
Tony Ingesson, Raymond Kimball
(2018) From the Green Notebook
Journal articleWhen the Military Profession Isn't
Tony Ingesson
(2018) Redefining the Modern Military : The Intersection of Profession and Ethics
Book chapterStatsvetenskapens detektivarbete : Från Columbo till CSI
Tony Ingesson
(2018) Det gränslösa samtalet : Vänbok till Magnus Jerneck
Book chapterThe Martial Origins of Democracy : A Global Study of Military Conscription and Suffrage Extensions Since the Napoleonic Wars
Tony Ingesson, Mårten Lindberg, Johannes Lindvall, Jan Teorell
(2018) Democratization, 25 p.633-651
Journal articleTrigger-Happy, Autonomous, and Disobedient : Nordbat 2 and Mission Command in Bosnia
Tony Ingesson
(2017) The Bridge
Journal articleThe Politics of Combat : The Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995
Tony Ingesson
(2016) Lund Political Studies
DissertationBattlefield Bureaucrats: a Theoretical Analysis of the Potential Political Impact of Tactical-Level Decision-Making
Tony Ingesson
(2011)
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Background
Tony Ingesson has previously served in the Swedish Armed Forces, and is trained in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Command, Control and Communications (C3). He has a PhD in Political Science, with a research focus on subcultures, military decision-making and public administration.
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