Anxiety is widespread in academia, among faculty members and students. However, anxiety is not unequivocally a negative emotion. Karl Gustafsson and Linus Hagström argue that it can also be a creative force. Anxiety can help us develop better ideas and research problems. It can help us do better research
Professor of Political Science, Swedish Defence University / Senior Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Linus does research on security, power, identity, narrative, emotion and ontological insecurities in international politics, and is interested in how to develop research problems.
He has recently published articles in Life Writing, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Cooperation and Conflict, International Relations of the Asia–Pacific, the European Journal of International Relations, Contemporary Security Policy, Social Science Japan Journal and International Studies Quarterly.
His article 'The insecurity of doing research and the ‘so what question’ in political science: how to develop more compelling research problems by facing anxiety' was just published in European Political Science.
