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J. Peter Burgess
Research Professor; Leader, Security Programme; Editor, Security Dialogue
Email: peter@prio.no
Work phone: 47 22547738
Mobile phone: 47 90923949
Profile
Research
Events
Publications
Current Research

• The ethical implications of security and insecurity
• Non-conventional security threats and the new cultural of insecurity
• The social determination of risk
• Revising NATO's strategic concept
• Philosophy of value
• Europe as moral community
• The Globalisation of European security identity

Languages spoken:

English, Norwegian, French, German, Italian, Dutch

Working experience:

• 2001 - present: Research Professor, PRIO
• 2004 - present: Programme Leader, Security Programme, PRIO
• 2001 - present: Editor-in-Chief, Security Dialogue
• 2007- Adjunct Professor, Risk psychology, University of Trondheim.
• 2006-2007 Guest Professor, Institut d'études politiques de Paris
• 2004 Professor, cultural studies and philosophy, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo
• 2000-2001 Associate Professor, Cultural History, Volda College
• 1998-2001 Senior Researcher, PRIO (20%)
• 1999-2000 Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence
• 1998-1999 Jean Monnet Fellow, Dept. of History & Civilisation, EUI, Florence
• 1997-1998 Research Fellow, Volda College

Education:

• D.E.A., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1990)
• City University of New York (1989)
• M.Phil. Columbia University (1989)
• Freie Universität, Berlin (1987-88)
• Université de Paris VII (1986-87)
• M.A., University of Chicago (1986)
• B.A., University of Iowa (1984)
• B.S., University of Colorado (1983)

Events

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.
Books and reports
Debrix, Francois; Mark J. Lacy & J. Peter Burgess (Series Editor), eds, 2009. The Geopolitics of American Insecurity. Terror, Power and Foreign Policy. London, New York: Routledge.
Burgess, J. Peter; Anthony Amicelle, Khalid Koser, Keith Krause, Oscar Salemink, Edien Bartels, Rocco Bellanova, Alfio Cerami, Erik Eggum, Gunhild Hoogensen, Sonja Kittelsen, Kim Knibbe & Martijn de Koning, 2007. Promoting Human Security: Ethical, Normative and Educational Frameworks in Western Europe. Paris: UNESCO.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'A Critical Evaluation of the Commission Communication to the European Parliament and the Council Concerning the Recruitment of Terrorist Groups: Combating the Factors that Contribute to Violent Radicalisation (COM/2005/0313 final)' in Report to the European Parliament. Brussels, September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2006. Europeisk identitet / L'identité européenne [European Identity]. Oslo: Forlaget Press.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'The Diversity and Universality of Human Needs'. Paris, UNESCO, May.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Five Paradoxes of Children's Rights', Listen to Us! Children’s Rights in Peace Processes and Peace Agreements (Report 03/2006). Oslo: Redd Barna.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2005. 'After the Monopoly of Violence: The Legitimacy of Post-national Military Intervention'. Roma: Centro Militare di Studi Strategici.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'Spenningsfeltet mellom kulturell og økonomisk verdi i forvaltning av kulturarv i EU' [The tension between cultural and economic value in the management of cultural heritage in the EU] in Contribution to Stortingsmeldingen om kultur og næring. Oslo, Kirke- og kulturdepartementet, November: 11.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'Theory of European Identity: Project Results'. Rome: Centro militare di studi strategici: 79.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2003. Den norske pastorale opplysningen. Nye perspektiver på norsk nasjonsbygging på 1800-tallet. Oslo: Abstrakt.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2003. Museum Europa: The European Cultural Heritage between Economics and Politics. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Security Identity', interim report for the project Theory of European Security Identity. Rome: Military Centre for Strategic Studies (45 pages).
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2002. Nation, Modernity, Written Culture. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2001. Culture and Rationality. European Frameworks of Norwegian Identity. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press.
Angell, Svein Ivar; J. Peter Burgess & Bo Stråth, eds, 2001. Den europeiske identiteten og den skandinaviske. Volda: Høgskulen i Volda.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'Vestens fremtidsforståelse: Del 1: Fremtidens fortid'[The West's Future Understanding: Part One: The Future's Past]. Volda: Høgskulen i Volda.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'Writings on Visual Art and Literature'. Volda: Høgskulen i Volda.
Burgess, J. Peter & Ola Tunander, eds, 2000. European Security Identities. Contested understandings of EU and NATO. Oslo: PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter, 1997. The Gender of Signs. Essays in Comparative Literature. Volda: Høgskulen i Volda.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 1997. Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Postmodern Europe. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
Articles
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'There is No European Security, Only European Securities', Cooperation and Conflict 44(3): 309–328.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'The Future of Europe', XING Magazin, 1 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'The New Nomos of Europe', Geopolitics 14(1): 135–160.
Begby, Endre & J. Peter Burgess, 2009. 'Human Security and Liberal Peace', Public Reason 1(1): 45–57.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2007. 'The Evolution of European Union Law and Carl Schmitt's Theory of the Nomos of Europe' in Louiza Odysseos & Fabio Petito, eds, The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt. London: Routledge (185–201).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2007. 'Norge: Europeisk uten EU' [Norway: European without EU], Aftenposten, 16 april 2007, 16 April.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Utfordringen for europeisk sikkerhetsforskning' [The Challenge for European Security Research], Forskerforum. Tidsskrift for Norsk forskerforbund 38 (9): 35–37, November.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Dialektischer Kosmopolitismus' [Dialectical Cosmopolitanism], Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 13(2): 251–256.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Modernity and Political Culture: Beck’s Theory of a Cosmopolitan Europe' in Ekavi Athanassopoulou, ed., The Political Culture(s) of Europe. Athens: ELIAMEP.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2005. 'The Legitimacy of War in the Age of Globalisation: EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy' in Jean-Christophe Merle, ed., Globalisering der Öffentlichkeit?. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2005. 'Simmel and the Federalist Vision: Between Cultural and Economic Value' in Jean-Christophe Merle, ed., Globalisering der Öffentlichkeit?. Berlin: Akademi Verlag.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2005. 'Editor's Introduction to the Special Section on The Report of the UN High-Level Panel', Security Dialogue 36(3): 361–363.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'Ambivalent patriotism: Jacob Aall and Dano-Norwegian Identity before 1814', Nations and Nationalism 10(4): 619–637.
Burgess, J. Peter & Taylor Owen, 2004. 'Editors’ Introduction: What is Human Security?', Security Dialogue 35(3): 345–346.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'The Ethics of Security' in Alessandro Gobbicchi, ed., Globalization, Armed Conflicts, and Security. Rome: Rubbettino (209–226).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'The Sacred Site in Civil Space: Meaning and Status of the Temple Mount/al-Haram al Sharif', Social Identities 10(3): 311–323.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'The Abduction of "The Abduction of Europa"' in Museum Europa: The European Cultural Heritage between Economics and Politics. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press (85–105).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Introduction: The Myth of Europe' in Museum Europa: The European Cultural Heritage between Economics and Politics. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press (7–9).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Jacob Aal and the Two Faces of Dano-Norwegian Patriotism' in Jens Johan Hyvik, ed., Fædrelandske Ideer (1799-1814). Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press (9–28).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Forord' [Foreword] in Den norske pastorale opplysningen. Nye perspektiver på norsk nasjonsbygging på 1800-tallet. Oslo: Abstrakt (5–7).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Den opplyste romantikken og den romantiske opplysningen' [The enlightened romantic and the romantic enlightenment] in Den norske pastorale opplysningen. Nye perspektiver på norsk nasjonsbygging på 1800-tallet tallet. Oslo: Abstrakt (103–116).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Commentary', Security Dialogue 34(4): 387–390.
Burgess, J. Peter & Frode Helland, 2003. 'Som det egentlig var? Det egne og det andre i 1800-tallets kulturhistoriografi' [As it Actually Was? The Selfsame and the Other in 19th Century Cultural Historiography] in Bjarne Hodne & Randi Sæbøe, eds, Kulturforskning. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (19–28).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Commentary', Security Dialogue 34(3): 251–254.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Culture and the Rationality of Law from Weimar to Maastricht' in Christian Joerges & Navrai Singh Ghaleig, eds, Darker Legacies of Law in Europe. The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its Legal Traditions. Oxford: Hart (143–166).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Commentary', Security Dialogue 34(1): 5–6.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'The Politics of the South China Sea: Territoriality and International Law', Security Dialogue 34(1): 7–10, 10 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Commentary', Security Dialogue 34(2): 131–134.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'What’s so European about the European Union?: Legitimacy between Institution and Identity', European Journal of Social Theory 5(4): 465–479.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'Cultural Semiotics and New Norwegian Written Culture. A Response to Kjell Lars Berge' in Nation, Modernity, Written Culture. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press (77–84).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'Nation and Language at the Frontier of National Culture' in Nation, Modernity, Written Culture. Kristiansand: Norwegian Academic Press (11–14).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'Editor's Comments', Security Dialogue 33(4).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'Editor's Comments', Security Dialogue 33(3).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention: The Circle Closes', Security Dialogue 33(3).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'Editor's Comments', Security Dialogue 33(2).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2002. 'Editor's Comments', Security Dialogue 33(1).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'Editor's Comments', Security Dialogue 32(4).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'Encyclopedic Europe', Security Dialogue 32(3).
Burgess, J. Peter & Bo Stråth, 2001. 'Money and Political Economy: From the Werner Plan to the Delors Report and Beyond' in From the Werner Plan to the EMU, In Search of a Political Economy for Europe. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'In the Service of Narrative. Master and Servant in the Philosophy of Hegel' in Narratives of the Servant. San Domenico: European University Institute (34).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'Språk som motstandsmoment i kollektiv identitet' in Kultur, identitet, erfaring. Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlag.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'Identitet og mangfald. Det norske, det skandinaviske, og det europeiske' in Den europeiske identiteten og den skandinaviske. Volda: Skrifter frå Ivar Aasen-instituttet.
Tunander, Ola, 2000. 'The Informal NATO or NATO als Gemeinschaft - The Case of Sweden' in J. Peter Burgess & Ola Tunander, eds, European Security Identities - Contested Understandings of the EU and NATO. Oslo: PRIO (81–101).
Burgess, J. Peter, 1999. 'Coal, Steel and Spirit: The Double Reading of European Unity (1948-50)' in Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang (232–253).
Burgess, J. Peter, 1999. 'The Logic of Language and Nation in the Emergence of Nynorsk' in Collective Identity and Citizenship in Europe: Fields of Access and Exclusion. Oslo/Jerusalem: Arena/Van Leer Institute (71–91).
Other
Burgess, J. Peter, 2010. 'Security, Value and Subjectivity: The Nietzschean Moment', presented at Biopolitics of Value, Keele University, 14 January.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'The Time of Security: From Preventive to Pre-emptive Security Economies', presented at CHALLENGE Concluding Conference, Brussels, 18 May.
Burgess, J. Peter & Taylor Owen, 2009. 'The Culture of Water in the Indus Water Treaty', presented at 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Environmental Change, Bonn, Switzerland, 29 April.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'Value Premises for a European Political Community', presented at UACES Working Group on Values and the EU, Glasgow, UK, 24 April.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'The EU in 2020', presented at Extra Europe, Linz, Austria, 21 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'Interior and exterior aspects of border security', presented at INEX-FRONTEX workshop, Warsaw, Poland, 25 February.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2009. 'Insecurities of Privacy', presented at 50th Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, New York, NY, 18 February.
Johansen, Amund, 2008. 'Promoting Democracy in the Neighborhood: The European Neighborhood Policy and Moldova', Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. Supervisors: J. Peter Burgess & Janne H. Matlary. Defended 22 May.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2007. Security Dialogue 38(4), December.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2007. Security Dialogue 38(3), September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2007. Security Dialogue 38(2), June.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2007. Security Dialogue 38(1), March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2007. 'La sécurité comme forme d'éthique' [Security as ethics], presented at Répertoire analytique de l'éthique sociale, 13 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2007. 'Norway, Article V and the New Strategic Concept', presented at NATO and Article V, Warsaw, Poland, 8 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2007. 'Risk, Gender and the Real: Lacan for Risk Analysis', presented at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, 28 February – 3 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Risk as Gendered Knowledge', presented at a conference on 'Security, Technologies of Risk, and the Political', London, 23–24 November.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'A Human Security Report for Western Europe', Paris, 9 June.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'The Social Construction of Threat', presented at the CHALLENGE conference on Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes, Paris, September.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Sécurité humaine et désarmement' [Human Security and Disarmament], presented at Ministère des affaires étrangères, Paris, 6 June.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Methodologischer Kosmopolitismus' [Methodological Cosmopolitanism], presented at the Annual Conference of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Münster, 29 September.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Gender Aspects of Risk Analysis', presented at 911 Five Years After: Values, Risk and Identity in the War on Terror, Oslo, 11–12 Septermber.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2006. Security Dialogue 37(3), September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2006. Security Dialogue 37(2), September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2006. Security Dialogue 37(1), September.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'The Ethical Transformation of Risk', presented at Values in Decision Making on Risk (VALDOR), Stockholm, 14–18 May.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2006. 'Insecurity of the European Community of Values', presented at 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), San Diego, 22–25 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2005. Security Dialogue 36(4), December.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2005. Security Dialogue 36(3), September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2005. Security Dialogue 36(2), June.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2005. Security Dialogue 36(1), March.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'The New Nomos of Europe', presented at the Fifth Pan-European International Relations Conference, The Hague, 9–11 September.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'The National Thing: Zizek's Contribution to the Nationalism Debate', presented at Democracy and Psychoanalysis, APCS, Columbia University, NYC, 14–16 October.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'The Question of Justice in Moral, Political and Legal Community', presented at Social Justice: Conference of the Network on Applied Global Justice, University of Zürich, 22 October.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'The Insecurity of the Community of Values', presented at COST conference, Brussels, 20–21 September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2004. Security Dialogue 35(3), September. Special issue on Human Security.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2004. Security Dialogue 35(2), June.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'Che cos’è un intervento militare europeo?: Il caso del Kosovo' [What is a European Military Intervention? The Case of Kosovo], Pavia, Italy, 22 March, 2004.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. 'Che cos’è un intervento militare europeo?: Il caso del Kosovo' [What is a European Military Intervention? The Case of Kosovo], presented at Guerra et consenso: Il dibattito sull'uso delle armi nel mondo moderno e contemporaneo, Pavia, Italy, 22 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2004. Security Dialogue 35(1), March.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2003. Security Dialogue 34(4), December.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Media in the Cultural Sphere: Contexts for Peace Research', presented at Does Support to Media Further Democracy, Peace and Human Rights, Holmenkollen Park Hotel, Oslo, 3–4 November.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Urbi et orbi: The Global Subject', presented at The World Today and Tomorrow: Stocktaking and Assessment of Trends and the Need for New Concepts of Cooperation and Security, Berlin, 1–2 November.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2003. Security Dialogue 34(3), September.
Burgess, J. Peter & Stig Aga Aandstad, 2003. 'Psychoanalysis of the National Thing: Žižek’s Contribution to the Nationalism Debate', presented at Globalization and Psychoanalysis, Senter for kvinneforskning, Bergen, 25–27 August.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'The Ethical Subject of Security', presented at Globalization, Uncertainty, New Prospects, Centro militare di Studii Strategici, 29–30 May.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Identity, Community, Security', University of Oslo, 5–6 May.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003. 'Identity and the Intolerable', Trondheim, 12 March.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2003. Security Dialogue 34(1), March.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2003. Security Dialogue 34(2), June.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2002. Security Dialogue 33(4), December.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2002. Security Dialogue 33(3), September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2002. Security Dialogue 33(2), June.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2002. Security Dialogue 33(1), March.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2001. Security Dialogue 32(3), September.
Burgess, J. Peter, ed., 2001. Security Dialogue 32(2), June.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'European Federalism between Cultural and Economic Value', University of Florence, 1 January.
Burgess, J. Peter, 2001. 'The Legitimacy of War in the Age of Globalisation: EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy', Lyon, 1 January.