Stein Tønnesson
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Curriculum Vitae Stein Tønnesson Education 1991 • Dr.philos. University of Oslo 1982 • Cand.philol. in French (University of Århus) and History (University of Oslo). Research Interests Peace research. World History. Globalisation. East Asian security. Asian-European relations. Maritime conflicts. Oil and security. Nationalism and national identity. Communism. Revolutions. Political leadership. Vietnam. Work Experience 2001-2009 • Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) 1997-2001 • Professor II of Human Development Studies, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo 1996-2000 • Asia Consultant in Statoil, Stavanger 1995-98 • Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies 1992-95 • Research professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen. 1990-92 • Research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) 1990-92 • University scholarship to complete doctoral thesis 1986-88 • NAVF-scholarship to write a doctoral thesis on the Vietnamese Revolution of 1945 1983-85 • Employed by the Norwegian Association of Sports as one of two authors of a general history of Norwegian sports 1983 • 'Amanuensis' teaching Norwegian and world history at the Institute of History, University of Oslo 1975-76 • Journalist in Østlendingen Solør-Odal, Kongsvinger 1974 • Journalist apprentice in Glåmdalen, Kongsvinger Research Administration and Board Memberships 2007- • Member of the Board of NORFUND (Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries) 2004- • Member of the advisory board for the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS)/Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) publication series on Piracy and Robbery in the High Seas. 2004- • Member of the Globalisations editorial Board at Taylor & Francis. 2003- • Member of the programme committee for Peace and Conflict Studies (PECOS) at University of Oslo. 2003- • Member of the editorial committee for Pacific Focus. 2003- • Member of the Board of the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies (SSAAPS). 2003-2008 • Member of the Board of CARE-Norway. 2002- • Member of Advisory Board for Norwegian Forum for Research in the United States ('Forum') 2003-2007 • Member of the editorial committee for Internasjonal Politikk. 2003-2006 • Member of the Board of the Norwegian Network of Social Science Research Institutes. 2001-2002 • Member of committee to prepare a new 2-year MA course in peace and conflict at the University of Oslo. 2000-2001 • Member of committee to evaluate applicants for a position at the Department of Classical and Romanic Studies, University of Oslo. 1999-2000 • Member of PhD dissertation committee for Liselotte Odgaard, political science, University of Århus. 1998-2001 • Leader of programme committee in the Research Council of Norway for Globalisation and Marginalisation: Cross-disciplinary research on development paths in the South (Utviklingsveier i Sør). 1997-1998 • Member of committee to propose to the Research Council of Norway research strategies concerning Development paths in the South (Utviklingsveier i Sør). 1993-1998 • Member of a programme committee in the Research Council of Norway for State and Society, Democracy and Political Change in the Third World, and Public Administration in Developing Countries. 1994-1995 • Deputy Director, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS). Fellowships and Awards April 1991 • Guest professor at the University of Århus, Institute of History (with leave from PRIO). Publications Monographs Vietnam 1946: How the War Began, Berkeley CA: California University Press, 2009 (forthcoming). The Vietnamese Revolution of 1945: Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and de Gaulle in a World at War, London, SAGE, 1991. (A Vietnamese translation was completed by a group of historians in Hanoi in 1994; but the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture refused publication). 1946: Le déclenchement de la guerre d'Indochine- les vêpres tonkinoises du 19 décembre, Paris, l'Harmattan, 1987. 'Folkehelse, trim, stjerner 1939–1986' Vol. 2 of Norsk idretts historie, Oslo, Aschehoug, 1986. The Outbreak of War in Indochina, 1946, MA thesis (hovedoppgave) published as PRIO-report 3/84. Textbooks 'Et tilbakeblikk på verden før 1850', Oslo, Aschehoug 1997 (bilag til Spor i Tid, Verden etter 1850). Spor i tid: Verden etter 1850 (with Tor Egil Førland), world history 1850-95 for Norwegian secondary schools, Oslo: Aschehoug, 1995 (revised edition 1997). Edited volumes Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tønnesson, Nguyen Vu Tung and James G. Herschberg (eds.), 77 Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, 1964–1977, Cold War International History Project, Working Paper No. 22, 1998. Stein Tønnesson, Juhani Koponen, Niels Steensgaard and Thommy Svensson (eds), Between National Histories and Global History, Helsingfors, Finska Historiska Samfundet, 1997 (Report to the Nordic Conference of Historians in Tampere, August). Hans Antlöv & Stein Tønnesson (eds.), Imperial Policy and Southeast Asian Nationalism 1930–1957, London: NIAS/Curzon Press, 1995. Stein Tønnesson & Hans Antlöv (eds.), Asian Forms of the Nation, London: NIAS/Curzon Press, 1996. Stein Tønnesson (red.), Røde skoger: Skogsarbeidere forteller fra klassekampen på landsbygda, Oslo: PAX, 1976, 240 pp. (interviews with Norwegian woodcutters about class struggles in the 1920s and 30s.) Refereed journal articles 'The Case for a Proactive Indian and Chinese Approach to Climate Change and Energy Security', Strategic Analysis 31(3) 417–445, 2007. 'The South China Sea in the Age of European Decline', Modern Asian Studies 40(1): 1–57, 2006. 'The Imperial Temptation', Security Dialogue 35(3), September 2004: 329–343. CV S. Tønnesson December 2008 'Sino-Vietnamese Rapprochement and the South China Sea Irritant,' Security Dialogue 34(1), March 2003: 55–70. 'Why are the Disputes in the South China Sea So Intractable? A Historical Approach', Asian Journal of Social Science 30(3), 2002: 570-601. 'The Paracels: The 'Other' South China Sea Dispute,' Asian Perspective, 26(4), 2002: 145-169. 'China and the South China Sea: A Peace Proposal', Security Dialogue 31(3), September 2000: 307-326. 'The Longest Wars: Indochina 1945-75', Journal of Peace Research 1/85: 9-30. Chapters in edited volumes 'Energy Security and Climate Change: The Potential Role of China and India', in Gunnar Fermann, ed., Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Forces of Fragmentation and Integration. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, forthcoming: 188–220. 'Hva er nytt i krig?' [What’s New in War?], in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk and Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig, konflikt: jubileumsbok til Helga Hernes [Gender, war, conflict, anniversary book to Helga Hernes], Oslo: PAX, 2008: 127-137. 'Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and Indochina: A Reassessment', in Mark Atwood Lawrence & Fred Logevall, eds, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007: 56–73. 'Comment: Strategic Deficits in Peace Building and Conflict Prevention', in Robert Picciotto & Rachel Weaving, eds, Security and Development: Investing in Peace and Prosperity. Milton Park: Routledge, 2006: 269–276. 'Forord' [Foreword], in Ole Berthelsen, ed., En frelser, en prest og en satan [A Savior, a Priest and a Devil]. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2005. 'Fred mot Terror', in Bjørn Erik Rasch, ed., Islamistisk Terrorisme. Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag (298–318), 2005. 'Locating the South China Sea', in Paul H. Kratoska and Remco Raben, eds, Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2005: 203-233. 'Marine vietnamienne et défense de l'espace maritime' [The Vietnamese Navy and the Defence of Maritime Space], in Christopher E. Goscha & Benoît De Tréglodé, eds, Naissance d'un État-Parti: Le Viêt Nam depuis 1945 [The Birth of a Party-State: Vietnam since 1945]. Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 2004: 383–413. 'Globalising national states', in Montserrat Guibernau and John Hutchinson (eds.), History and National destiny: Ethnosymbolism and its Critics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004: 179-194. 'National divisions in Indochina's decolonization' in Prasenjit Duara, ed., Decolonization. London: Routledge, 2004: 253–277. 'A 'Global Civil War'?', in Bengt Sundelius, ed., The Consequences of September 11. Stockholm: The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Conference Papers 30, 2002: 103-111. 'Hanoi's Long Century', in Robert Buzzanco & Marilyn Blatt Young, eds, A Companion to the Vietnam War. London: Blackwell, 2002: 1-16. 'Les pays nordiques et l'Asie', in Michel Foucher, Michel Bruneau, François Durand-Dastès, Gilles Lepesant and Philippe Pelettier, Asies nouvelles, Paris, Belin, 2002: 428-431. 'A History of the Dispute', in Timo Kivimäki, ed., War or Peace in the South China Sea. Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2002: 6–23. 'The Economic Dimension' in Timo Kivimäki, ed., War or Peace in the South China Sea. Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2002: 54–61. 'Vietnam in the Asian Crisis,' in Claes Brundenius and John Weeks, eds. Globalization and Third World Socialism, London: Palgrave, 2001: 168–196 'Det Sydkinesiske Hav, historie' i Den Store Danske Encyklopædi , vol. 18, København: Danmarks Nationalleksikon, 2000: 399–400. 'The Layered State of Vietnam', chapter 11 in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Susan Young, eds, State Capacity in East Asia: China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000: 236–268. 'Vietnam, historie', Store Norske Leksikon,