In this episode of the WarPod, Professor of International Politics and CWS Director Ingvild Bode expands on what we know about the drones spotted over Danish military installations, recent trends in drone technology, the integration of AI, and the continuing issue of governance gaps in these areas.

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In this episode of the WarPod, André Ken Jakobsson discusses recent events in Denmark and other European states that have been seen as part of an escalation of hybrid threats against Europe. The discussion centers around drone incursions over major Danish airports and military installations, the concept and tactics of hybrid warfare, and how to respond to those.

André Ken Jakobsson is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Fellow at the Center for War Studies. He is also the head of the professional Master in Intelligence and Cyber Security at the University of Southern Denmark and the Danish Defence Academy.

Oscar Noach is a PhD Candidate at the University of Southern Denmark and a Fellow at the Center for War Studies.

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In this episode, Anna Vlasiuk Nibe, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Fellow at the Center for War Studies, unpacks the EU’s evolving role as a geoeconomic actor.

Anna shares insights from her research on how the EU is reshaping its investment policy regime in response to global power shifts and rising security concerns.

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Can thinking about Ukraine as an attempted buffer state since the Cold War nuance how we understand the domestic roots of Russia’s war?

In this episode, our colleague at the Center for War Studies Anne Ingemann Johansen:

• Shares new research on Ukraine’s post-independence history, based in part on newly uncovered material

• Explains how difficult internal Ukrainian politics and institutional weakness transformed a difficult balancing act as a buffer State into an explosive geopolitical arrangement.

• Argues that buffer states aren’t just passive zones — they actively shape great power competition

This episode draws on Anne’s work in the DFF-funded project Mind the Gap: Security Scholarship between Academia and Policy, 1978–2024.

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The WarPod speaks with Anna Nadibaidze (Postdoc at the Center for War Studies) about Responsible AI in the military domain. Anna explains the concept of Responsible AI, highlights critiques, and looks to the future of AI regulation in the military domain as well as her own research.

This episode is based on ongoing postdoctoral work that Anna is undertaking as part of HuMach, a project which investigates the distributed agency of human and machines in military applications of AI. The project is funded by The Independent Research Fund Denmark and hosted by the University of Southern Denmark and CWS.

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The WarPod speaks to Chiara De Franco (Associate Professor at the CWS and Principal Investigator of the PROTEX project), Qiaochu Zhang (Postdoctoral Researcher at the CWS), and Oscar Noach (PhD Fellow at the CWS) about the future of human protection in international relations. This episode is based on discussions held at the conference "The Future of Human Protection" held in Copenhagen in January 2025. The episode also features recorded remarks by three of the conference speakers: Carina Lamont (Swedish Defence University), Rikke Ishøy (Danish Red Cross) and Alexander Borum (EUISS).

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The Center for War Studies (CWS)' experts Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Qiaochu Zhang, Frederik Harhoff, André Ken Jakobsson and Anne Ingemann Johansen discuss the implications of Donald Trump's second presidency for US foreign and security policy. This WarPod episode was recorded during the CWS post-US election roundtable held on 18 November 2024.

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Dr. Ingvild Bode, Associate Professor at the Center for War Studies and Principal Investigator of the AutoNorms project, speaks to Denise Garcia, Professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Prof. Garcia delivered the 2022 CWS Annual Lecture, where she presented her forthcoming book "Common Good Governance in the Age of Military Artificial Intelligence"(Oxford University Press). The book examines the complexities entailed in establishing a global framework to govern the military use of AI by proposing inclusive and humane ways to forge cooperation. In this WarPod Prof. Garcia discusses what inspired her to write this book as well as why she chose this particular approach towards the study of patterns and trends in the militarization of AI.

The Center for War Studies’ Ingvild Bode speaks to Dr. Katherine Chandler, Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University, about her report “Does Military AI Have Gender?” published by UNIDIR. Dr. Chandler’s research examines the intersection between technology, media and socio-politics. In this WarPod she talks about the gender dimension of studying military applications of artificial intelligence and the representations of technologies in popular culture.

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The WarPod talks to Anna Nadibaidze, Vincent Keating, Pål Røren and Guyangyu Qiao-Franco to shed a light on the various consequences that the Russian invasion has had for Russia. Both internally and what consequences it has had for the Russian people, but also how the invasion has affected Russia’s international relations, including Russia’s relationship with China.