Research keywords (8)：
談話分析
, 北朝鮮の政治と社会
, 日本人のアイデンティティ
, 日本の安全保障政策
, 日朝関係
, 東アジアの国際関係
, particularly Japan-North Korea relations; Japanese security policy; Japanese national identity; North Korean politics and society; discourse analysis.
, International relations in East Asia
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：
2021 - 2023 Sweden’s role on the Korean Peninsula: Functions, motivations, and impact
日本の政治・社会と国際関係
Japanese politics, society and foreign relations
Papers (8)：
Ulv Hanssen. The Chinese “hypothetical enemy”: Japan rehabilitates a problematic prewar label. The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus. 2024. 22. 4
Ulv Hanssen, Florentine Koppenborg. More Weapons than Windmills: Japan’s Military and Energy Policy Response to Russia’s Attack on Ukraine. Czech Journal of International Relations. 2023. 58. 2
Ulv HANSSEN, Eun Hee WOO. Hate on the Bookshelves: Explaining the Phenomenon of Anti-Korean Hate Books in Japan. Social Science Japan Journal. 2022
Karl Gustafsson, Linus Hagström, Ulv Hanssen. Long live pacifism! Narrative power and Japan’s pacifist model. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 2019. 32. 4. 502-520
Ulv Hanssen. Den japanske kapitalismens vekst og fall [The rise and fall of Japanese capitalism]. Gnist. 2023. 51. 3. 66-75
Ulv Hanssen, Linus Hagström. The errors of NATO’s East Asia engagement. East Asia Forum. 2023
Ulv Hanssen. Book review (in Norwegian). ‘Hitoshinsei no shihonron [Capital in the Anthropocene], by Saitō Kōhei. Published under the title ‘”Nedvekstkommunisme vil redde verden!” [‘Degrowth communism will save the world!’]’. Gnist. 2023. 51. 1. 82-87
Ulv Hanssen. Kapitalismen dreper planeten [Capitalism is killing the planet]. Dagsavisen. 2022
Ulv Hanssen. Book Review: 'Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet' by Matthew T. Huber. Capital and Class. 2022. 46. 4
Temporal identities and security policy in postwar Japan
Routledge 2020 ISBN:9781138331709
Lectures and oral presentations (24)：
Business, politics and global change: the roots of Sweden-DPRK normalization
(The Nordic countries' relations with the DPR Korea (Turku University) 2023)
Sveriges relation med Nordkorea - 50 år av diplomati [Sweden’s relations with North Korea - 50 years of diplomacy]
(Open seminar at Medelhavsmuseet (Stockholm) 2023)
Sweden’s role on the Korean Peninsula, 1950-1985
(Closed roundtable at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm) 2023)
The positive consequences of superpower détente: The case of Swedish-North Korean normalization in 1973
(Peace Forum 2022: The U.S.-China strategic competition and its impact: Perspectives from South Korea, Japan and Taiwan 2022)
What shaped Sweden-Korea relations in the 1970s?
(What shaped Sweden-Korea relations in the 1970s? 2022)
