About dr. frida stranne

I’m an Associated Professor in PhD in Peace- and development Studies and work as a senior lecturer in Political Science at Halmstad University College. In recent years I have been an affiliated Scholar at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies and a guest professor at American University in Washington DC 2013-2014. I’m the author of two books about US politics and a regular commentator in the Swedish news media on issues related to the US foreign policy and the domestic development in the Unites States.

My latest book, The Illusion of the American Peace, is written together with Trita Parsi Quincy Institute, Washington DC, (2023). In the book we are dealing with the evolution of American foreign and security policy, the costs of the US war on terror and its consequences for international (in)security as well as for the domestic political development in the US.

My latest publication (sep 2024) is a contribution to a Round Table Discussion of the book by Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi with the title Dying by the Sword - The Militarization of US Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. You find my review here

In 2022 I was editor for a Special Issue for the Swedish Political Science Journal, which presented various challenges to American democracy. The title for the Special Issue was the somewhat provocative question; “Is the US still a democracy?”

2020 I published a book with the title “The Super Power - What all Swedes should know about the United States” (Mondial).

The main focus of my research in 2024/25 is the changed Swedish security strategy and its impact on Swedens role in world affairs and in its role as a new member of Nato. I will also be starting a new project on the changing dynamics of the global system, the world moving away from unipolarity towards multipolarity. This project is run together with scholars from The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm university and Universities in various parts of the world.