Davis Ellison

Davis is currently a PhD Candidate at the King’s College London Department of War Studies, where he is writing his dissertation on civil-military relations in NATO. He received his master’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, during which time he also studied at Humboldt and Free Universities in Berlin and the University of Bath. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in political science and international studies from Indiana University – Bloomington, where he also studied at the London School of Economics.

He is also a strategic analyst at HCSS specializing in security and defense affairs. His primary focus areas include deterrence, civil-military relations, and strategy. He joins HCSS from NATO Allied Command Transformation, where he served for four years as a strategist.

Davis Ellison

Identity Politics and the Orthodoxies of the National Security Policy Community

by Davis Ellison | 16 January, 2024 | Security, Theory & Methods

In 2015, Linus Hagström, a professor of political science at the Swedish Defence University, questioned the wisdom of Sweden joining NATO in a coauthored opinion piece. After its publication, some of his colleagues, especially those in the Swedish military, ostracized Hagström. Some even accused him of being a traitor, “running errands” for Russian propaganda, and called for him to be fired. So what actually happened to Hagström? Simply put, he committed heresy. In the national security policy community, some ideas become orthodoxies in which dissent against them is profane. For...

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Davis Ellison

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