Hedvig Ördén is a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs’ Europe Programme.
Hedvig Ördén received her doctorate from the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University in 2020. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and a researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University.
Her fields of interest include critical security studies, intelligence studies and political theory. Current research projects focus on the intersection between science and securitization, especially the role of neuroscience in security, and public intelligence disclosures as an emerging security practice.
Academic publications
‘Securitizing Cyberspace: Protecting Political Judgement’, 2021. International Political Theory. 18(3), 375–392.
Securing Judgement: Rethinking Security and Online Information Threats. Stockholm University, dissertation, 2020.
‘Deferring substance: EU policy and the information threat’, 2020. I: K. Lund
Petersen and K. Vrist Rønn (red.), Bringing in the Public: Intelligence on the Frontier between the State and Civil Society. London: Routledge.
‘Deferring substance: EU policy and the information threat’, 2019. Intelligence and National Security, 34(3), 421-437.
‘Instilling Judgement: Counter-Narratives of Humour, Fact and Logic,’ 2019. I: D. Bertrand Monk (red.), Who's Afraid of ISIS?": Towards a Doxology of War. London: Routledge.
‘Instilling Judgement: Counter-Narratives of Humour, Fact and Logic’, 2018. Critical Studies on Security 6(1), 15-32.
‘Or else they lie around: Time, Space and the Everyday in Post-Independence Dublin,’ 2014. Contested Administrations: Conflict Resolution and the Improvement of Democracy Working Paper Series, No. 3. Lund University.
Book review, Cities under Siege: The new Military Urbanism, 2013. Peacebuilding 1(3), 398-401.
Reports
‘Lines in the Sand: What is so ‘Foreign’ about Foreign Influence Operations?’, Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (co-authored with James Pamment), Jan 2021.
Research Network
Global Science Challenges Network