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Johan Matz

Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Director Intelligence analysis studies

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Arms exports and intelligence: the case of Sweden

Author

  • Johan Matz

Summary, in Swedish

This article approaches the intelligence dimension of Sweden’s arms exports by going back to three governmental decisions, taken in 1914, 1935 and 1971 respectively, all of which have been pivotal to both the Swedish government’s involvement in arms exports and the emergence of government institutions handling the intelligence associated with this export. The article shows that a significant amount of the collection and evaluation of arms exports intelligence is performed by government authorities other than those of traditional intelligence. It also points to the important roles of other actors ‘doing intelligence’ in this field, such as civic movements and investigative journalists.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2022-03-09

Language

Swedish

Pages

710-731

Publication/Series

Intelligence and National Security

Volume

37

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • Intelligence
  • Arms export
  • Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0268-4527