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Ola Tunander
Research Professor (on leave)
Email: ola@prio.no
Mobile phone: 47 906 82 389
Profile
Research
Events
Publications

Education/Qualification:

Research Professor (Peace Research), International Peace Research Institute Oslo. Appointed Research Professor in 2000.

Ph.D. (Technology and Social Change). Tema Institute, Linköping University, Sweden (with a doctoral thesis on US Naval Strategy, Weapons Technology and Geopolitics), 1989.

M.Sc. (Fil Kand. History of Economics with courses in Human Geography and History of Science and Philosophy), Gothenburg University, Sweden, 1980.

 

Working experience:

2005-2009 Responsible for projects on security, terrorism, humanitarian intervention and China funded by Norwegian ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence. Participated in project for the EU 6th Framework Program.

2002-2005 Leader of PRIO's Strategic Institute Programme: ‘Looking Outward – The Quest for a European Security Identity’.

2000-2001 Special expert to the Swedish Government Inquiry – the Ambassador Ekéus Inquiry – for investigating the submarine intrusions into Swedish waters.

2000-  Research Professor at the International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

1998-2001 Leader of PRIO's Strategic Institute Programme: ‘European Security Organisations – Two Europes, Two Philosophies’.

1995-2000 Leader, Foreign and Security Policy Program, International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

1991-1994 Coordinator of the European network ‘Walls’, Nordic Summer University.

1989-2000 Senior Research Fellow, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).

1987-1989 Research Fellow for Nordic Security Studies International Peace Research Institute Oslo. Permanent position from 1988.

1985-1988 Coordinator of the network “A New Europe”, Nordic Summer University.

1983-1987 Doctoral studies at the Department of Technology and Social Change, Institute of Tema Research, Linköping University.

1980-1987 Freelance journalist (written a number of articles and three books).


Publications:

Have written eight books and edited or co-edited four. Have also written 31 book chapters and a number of reports and articles in international refereed journals (Review of International Studies, Geopolitics, Security Dialogue, International Affairs (Moscow), Cooperation & Conflict, Journal of Peace Research, Nordic Journal of Soviet and East-European Studies). Books or book chapters have been published by Sage (London), Frank Cass (London), Pluto Press (London), Westview Press (Boulder Col.), Olive Branch Press (Northampton, Mass), Rodopi (Amsterdam), Museum Tusculanum (Copenhagen), Norstedts (Stockholm), Cappelen (Oslo), Carlssons (Stockholm), Syposion (Lund, Sweden), Lund University Press (Lund), Nordic Summer University (Ålborg, Denmark) and Swedish Defence Research Establishment (FOA, Stockholm). Several of these books (and book chapters) have been used as text books at universities or military colleges.

Board Memberships
Member of the Advisory Board of Millennium: Journal of International Studies (2000). Norwegian representative in the board of NISA (Nordic International Studies Association) (1999-2002). Member of the board of International Peace Research Institute Oslo (1998-1999). Swedish representative of the board of the Nordic Summer University (1985-1987).

Referee (for academic publishers and journals)
Publishers: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
Journals: International Security, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Geopolitics, Political Geography, European Journal of International Relations, Nordic Journal of International Relations – Cooperation & Conflict, Journal of Peace Research, Security Dialogue, Internasjonal Politikk.

Member of Editorial Committees
Journal of Peace Research (1989-1998), Internasjonal Politikk (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 1993-2001).

Referee (for projects)
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norwegian Military Staff School, Research Council of Norway, and European Science Foudation.

Lectures
UNAM University (Mexico City), Asian Law Center, University of Melbourne (Australia), Center for Naval Analysis (Washington), Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, USA), East-West Institute (Washington, New York), Northern Region Seminar (Anchorage, Alaska), China Institute of International Studies (Beijing), China Association for Military Science (Beijing), Nairobi Diplomatic Academy (Kenya), Ankara University (Turkey), Sciences Po (Paris, France), European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Universität Kiel (Germany), Nobel Institute (Oslo, Norway), International Peace Research Institute (Oslo), Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Oslo), Norwegian Defence College (Oslo), Norwegian Military Staff School (Oslo), Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (Oslo), University of Oslo, University of Bergen (Norway), University of Tromsø (Norway), Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Helsinki), Estonian Academy of Science (Tallin), Karelian Academy of Science (Petrozavodsk, Russia), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Danish Institute of International Studies, (Copenhagen), Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Swedish Ministry of Defence (Stockholm), Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA, Stockholm), Linköping University (Sweden), Swedish Parliament (Stockholm), Swedish Defence College (Stockholm), Royal Institute of Tecnology (Stockholm), Lund University (Sweden), Malmö University (Sweden), Umeå University (Sweden).

Other Activities
I have organized a number of international seminars, presented papers at international conferences worldwide and written reports for various ministries and institutes including the Swedish Institute for Future Studies, the Swedish Power Investigation, Swedish Defence Establishment, The Swedish Society for People and Defence, Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Norwegian Defence Ministry and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.







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
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'Humanitarian Intervention and Calibration of Violence: Some Comments on the US Dual Policy for Afghanistan', report to Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oslo: PRIO.
Tunander, Ola, 2007. Spelet under ytan - Teknisk bevisning i nationalitetsfrågan för ubåtsoperationen mot Sverige 1982 [Beneath the Surface - Technical Evidence in Determining the Nationality of the Submarine Operation against Sweden, 1982]. Sweden: Gothenburg University and Stockholm University.
Tunander, Ola, 2004. The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s. London: Frank Cass.
Tunander, Ola, 2001. Hårsfjärden - Det hemliga ubåtskriget mot Sverige [Hårsfjärden - The Secret Submarine War Against Sweden]. Stockholm: Norstedts.
Burgess, J. Peter & Ola Tunander, eds, 2000. European Security Identities. Contested understandings of EU and NATO. Oslo: PRIO.
Tunander, Ola, 1998. 'Nordiskt Samarbete' [Nordic Cooperation], Nytt fra Norge (News from Norway). : Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tunander, Ola; Pavel K. Baev & Victoria Ingrid Einagel, eds, 1997. Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe. Security, Territory and Identity. London: SAGE.
Tunander, Ola, ed., 1995. Europa och Muren - Om 'den andre', gränslandet och historiens återkomst i 90-talets Europa. Ålborg: Nordic Summer University.
Tunander, Ola, 1995. Murar - Essäyer om makt, identitet och territorialitet. Ålborg: Nordic Summer University.
Tunander, Ola & Olav Schram Stokke, eds, 1994. The Barents Region - Cooperation in Arctic Europe. London: SAGE.
Tunander, Ola, 1992. 'The Strategic Significance of the Nordic-Baltic Region'. Oslo: The Europe Program .
Tunander, Ola, 1989. Cold Water Politics - the Maritime Strategy and Geopolitics of the Northern front. London: SAGE.
Tunander, Ola, 1987. Norden och USAs maritima strategi - En studie av Nordens förandrade strategiske läge [The Nordic Countries and the US Maritime Strategy – A Study of the Changed Strategic Position of the Nordic ]. Stockholm: Försvarets forskningsanstalt.
Tunander, Ola, 1985. Den Svarta Duvan – Essäer om makt, teknik och historia [The Black Dove – Essays on Power, Technology and History’]. Lund: Symposion.
Tunander, Ola, 1985. På Autobahn mot sekelskiftet [On Autobahn towards the Turn of the Century]. Lund: Symposion.
Articles
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'Men för Gustafsson är jag den enda trovärdiga källan', Historisk tidskrift (Journal of the Swedish Historical Society) 129(3): 540–543.
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'Det kalla krigets historie, vetenskap och spelet under ytan' [Cold War History, Scholarship and the Game below the Surface], Forum Navale (Journal of the Swedish Society of Naval History)(65): 125–150, 1 April.
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'Det så kallade elefantmötet' [The So-called Elephant Meeting], Historisk tidskrift (Journal of the Swedish Historical Society) 129(2): 251–255.
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'Kollektivt Selvmord' [Collective Suicide], Aftenposten, 17 February.
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'Ett generalangrepp på den kritiska historieforskningen. En kommentar till Bengt Gustafsson' [General('s) Attack on Critical Research in History - A Comment on Bengt Gustafsson], Historisk tidsskrift (Journal of the Swedish Society of History) 129(1): 48–62, 1 February.
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'En forsker må ha lønn' [A Researcher Must Have a Salary], Aftenposten, 29 January.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'US Strategy for a New World Order: Some Preliminary Predictions on Peace and War in the World' in Zheng Shenxia, ed., Peaceful Development and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region. Beijing: Military Science Publication House (117–131).
Tunander, Ola, 2009. 'Democratic State vs. Deep State - Approaching the Dual State of the West' in Eric Wilson, ed., Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty. London: Pluto Press (56–72).
Tunander, Ola; Ola Tunander & Ola Tunander, 2008. '美 国 的 世 界 新 秩 序 战 略 对 世 界 和 平 与 战 争 的 一 些 初 步 预 测' [US Strategy for a New World Order: Some Preliminary Predictions on Peace and War in the World] in Ola Tunander, ed., 亚 太 地 区 的 和 平 发 展 与 地 区 安 全. Beijing: 中 国 军 事 科 学 学 会 国 际 军 事 分 会 编 (109–116).
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Historieforskning och kallt krig' [Historical Research and Cold War], Norsk tidsskrift for sjøvesen (Journal of the Norwegian Navy) 123(5): 37–39, 15 November.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Skjev fremstilling - Russland og Georgia' [Russia and Georgia - A Biased Presentation], Morgenbladet, 3 October.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'A Return to the "Geopolitics of the Weak"', Heartland - Eurasian Review of Geopolitics(2): 128–138, 1 October.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Geopolitics of the North, Geopolitik of the Weak - A Post-Cold War Return to Rudolf Kjellén', Cooperation and Conflict 43(2): 164–184.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Il ritorno delle "geopolitica dei deboli"', Limes - Revista Italiano di Geopoliti-ca(2): 181–185.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Myter om Lhasa-massakren' [The Myth about the Lhasa massacre], Kina & Vi, 20/05/2008.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Myter om Lhasa-massakren' [The Myth about the Lhasa Massacre], Klassekampen, 8 May.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Vennskap som teller' [Friendship that Counts], Aftenposten, 11 February.
Tunander, Ola, 2007. 'Mycket pekar på västliga ubåtar' [A Lot Points to Western Submarines], Svenska Dagbladet, 03/12/2007.
Tunander, Ola, 2007. 'Afghansk opiumskrig' [Afghan Opium War], Aftenposten, 26 November.
Tunander, Ola, 2007. 'Sanningen om ubåtsbandet' [The Truth about the Submarine Tape], Expressen, 21/11/2007.
Tunander, Ola, 2007. 'Sanningen om vem som fanns i Hårsfjärden' [The Truth about who was in Hårsfjärden ], Expressen, 2 november 2007.
Tunander, Ola, 2007. 'The Dual State and the Sovereign - a Schmittian Approach to Western Politics' in Mikkel Thorup, ed., Den ondeste mand i live? Lesninger om og mot Carl Schmitt. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum (187–208).
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'Kreativ Ødeleggelse' [Creative Destruction], Morgenbladet, 25 august 2006.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'Amerika i våre hjerter' [America in our Hearts], Morgenbladet, 19-25 May.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'War on Terror and US Transformation of World Order' in Mustafa Aydin & Kostas Ifantis, eds, International Security Today - Understanding Change and Debating Strategy. Turkey: Centre for Strategic Research - Turkish Foreign Ministry (187–204).
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'War on Terror and the Pax Americana' in David Ray Griffin & Peter Dale Scott, eds, 9/11 and the American Empire. Northampton: Olive Branch Press (149–168).
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'The Dual State and the Sovereign: A Schmittian Approach to Western Politics '.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'Terrorism, Securization and a Unipolar World Order'.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Swedish Geopolitics: From Rudolf Kjellén to a Swedish ‘Dual State’', Geopolitics 10(3): 546–566.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Clemmensens blindhet' [Clemmensen's blindness], Berlingske Tidende, 15/09/2005.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Vestlige ubåde opererede i Sverige' [Western submarines operated in Swedish waters], Berlingske Tidende , 25/08/2005.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Sanningen finns i detaljerna' [The Truth is in the Details], Norsk Tidskrift for Sjøvesen 1(120): 16–21.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Comment: The “Suspect” Who Investigated Himself', Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, 17 May.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Det fredelige Sverige - og det aristokratiske' [The Peaceful Sweden and the Aristocratic Sweden], Aftenposten, 19/04/2005.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Sverige som Tysklands gode nabo i krig' [Sweden as Germany's Wartime Good Neighbour], Aftenposten, 29 March.
Tunander, Ola, 2004. 'Ta historien om ubåtskränkningarna på allvar', Norsk Tidskrift for Sjøvesen 119(1): 15–19.
Tunander, Ola, 2004. 'Some Remarks on the US/UK Submarine Deception in Swedish Waters in the 1980s', Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, 29 July 2004.
Tunander, Ola, 2003. 'Falske document legitimerte krigen' [False Documents Legitimate the War], Dagbladet, 1 April.
Tunander, Ola, 2003. 'NATOs forsvar av Tyrkia' [NATOs Defence of Turkey], Aftenposten, 21/02/2003.
Tunander, Ola, 2003. 'Mens vi venter på krigen' [While Waiting for the War], Dagsavisen, 02/02/2003.
Tunander, Ola, 2003. 'Geopolitikens fader - Stat og statsforbund hos Rudolf Kjellen' [The Father of Geopolitics - Rudolf Kjellen Views on States and Confederacies ], Kritik (Denmark) 166: 12–19.
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'Sveriges relationer till NATO' [Sweden's relationship to NATO] in Sven Eliasson, ed., Nordiska säkerhetspolitiska utmaningar. Stockholm: Carlssons (127–151).
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'I Sverige föredrar man att ingenting se och ingenting höra', Kungliga krigsvetenskapsakademiens handlingar och tidskrift 3: 97–106.
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'Chefen för operationsledningen 1982 - Part i målet', Tidskrift i Sjöväsendet 2: 137–150.
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'Politikkens dukketeater – Hvordan Sverige blev disciplineret på mindre end et år', Kritik (Copenhagen) 160: 15–23.
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'Submarine Incursions in Swedish Waters, 1980-1992: Comment on a Controvery', Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'Ola Tunander om ubåtssprängningen vid Mälsten för 20 år sedan - Norsk UD-chef avslörade USA' [Ola Tunander tells about the mine explosion 20 years ago - Director at the Norwegian Foreign Ministry revealed the USA], Dagens Nyheter, 11/09/2002.
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'Bildt är kanske trots allt inte naiv' [Despite everything, Bildt is perhaps not naive], Svenska Dagbladet, 21/01/2002.
Tunander, Ola, 2001. 'Bror Stefenson fick granske sig själv', Dagens Nyheter, 02/12/2001.
Tunander, Ola, 2001. 'Swedish-German geopolitics for a new century - Rudolf Kjellén's 'The State as a Living Organism'', Review of International Studies 27: 451–463.
Tunander, Ola; Ola Tunander, Ola Tunander, Ola Tunander, Ola Tunander, Ola Tunander, Ola Tunander, Ola Tunander & Ola Tunander, 2000. 'A Criticism of Court Chroniclers', Cooperation and Conflict 35(4): 451–460.
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).
Tunander, Ola, 1999. 'Nordic Cooperation', Odin (Norwegian MFA).
Tunander, Ola, 1999. 'The Uneasy Imbrication of Nation-State and NATO. The Case of Sweden', Cooperation and Conflict 32(2): 169–203.
Tunander, Ola, 1999. 'NATOs upphävande av den suveräna nationalstaten?', Samtiden 2(3): 96–98, 1.1.1999 00:00:00.
Tunander, Ola, 1999. 'Krever demokratiet dødseskvadroner? 'Suveränens' ansvar og demokratiets 'letsind'', Kritik 32(138): 50–57.
Tunander, Ola, 1999. 'Drømmen om det empiriske grundfjell', Kritik 32(141): 67–69.
Tunander, Ola, 1999. 'NATOs upphävande av den suveräna nationalstaten?', Samtiden 2(3): 96–98.
Tunander, Ola, 1999. 'Norway, Sweden and Nordic Cooperation' in The European North: Hard, Soft and Covic Security. Stockholm: The Olof Palme International Center/Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (39–48).
Tunander, Ola; Ola Tunander & Ola Tunander, 1998. 'Kräver demokratin dödsskvadroner?' [Does Democracy demand Death Squads?], Svenska Dagbladet, 06/12/1998.
Tunander, Ola, 1998. 'Demokratins lättsinne ' [The Carelessness of Democracy], Svenska Dagbladet, 05/12/1998.
Tunander, Ola, 1998. 'Den kluvna maktens ansikten' in Eliterna som Abdikerade. Stockholm: Carlssons (133–162).
Tunander, Ola, 1998. 'Geopolitikens fader - Rudolf Kjelléns ""staten som livsform', Internasjonal Politikk 3(56): 475–489.
Tunander, Ola, 1997. 'Introduction' in Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. London: Sage Publications (1–14).
Tunander, Ola, 1997. 'Norge og Norden' in Norges Utenrikspolitik. Oslo: Cappelen Akademika (282–299).
Tunander, Ola, 1997. 'A Complex Partnership', International Affairs - A Russian Journal of World Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations 43(4): 58–67, 1.1.1997 00:00:00.
Tunander, Ola, 1997. 'With the World Spirit on Horseback - A Round-trip to Berlin: From the Metaphysics of the Wall to the Metaphysics of the Mirror' in Remaking Identity: Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Today's Europe. Amsterdam: Rodopi (213–236).
Tunander, Ola, 1997. 'Post-Cold War Europe - a Synthesis of a Bipolar Friend-Foe Structure and a Hierarchic Cosmos-Chaos Structure?' in Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. London: Sage Publications (15–42).
Tunander, Ola, 1997. 'Slozhnoe Partnerstvo', Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn (Moscow)(5): 62–69, 1.1.1997 00:00:00.
Tunander, Ola, 1997. 'New Russian-Norwegian Relations - A Complex Partnership', International Affairs (Moscow) 43(4): 58–65.
Tunander, Ola, 1996. 'Un nuevo Imperio Otomano? La opcion turca: centro eurasiático o fortaleza nacional' [A New Ottoman Empire? – The Choice for Turkey: Euro-Asian Centre vs National Fortress], Dialogo y Securidad(3): 219–234.
Tunander, Ola, 1996. 'Norway's Post-Cold War Security - Between Friend and Foe, or between Cosmos and Chaos' in Visions of European Security Policy - Focal Point Sweden and Northern Europe. Stockholm: The Olof Palme International Center (48–63).
Tunander, Ola, 1995. 'A New Ottoman Empire? - The Choice for Turkey: Euro-Asian Centre vs National Fortress', Security Dialogue 27(4): 413–427.
Tunander, Ola, 1995. 'Frihet, murar og frimurare i 90-talets Europa' in Europa och Muren. Ålborg: Nordic Summer University (23–45).
Tunander, Ola, 1995. 'Should NATO Be Extended?', Security Dialogue 26(3): 350–351.
Baev, Pavel K., 1994. 'Russian Perspectives on the Barents Region' in Ola Tunander, ed., The Barents Region: Cooperation in Arctic Europe. London: SAGE (175–186).
Tunander, Ola & Ole Wæver, 1994. 'Murar - Europas nya medeltid' in Europa och Muren. Ålborg: Nordic Summer University.
Tunander, Ola, 1994. 'Inventing the Barents Region - Overcoming the East-West Divide' in The Barents Region - Cooperation in Arctic Europe. London: SAGE Publications (31–44).
Tunander, Ola, 1993. 'Om murer, etniske grupper, stater og nasjoner', Internasjonal Politikk 0(4).
Tunander, Ola, 1993. 'Bortom den tragiska diplomatin', Internasjonal Politikk 0(3): 343–347.
Tunander, Ola, 1993. 'Norden och Havet' in Norge i det politiske kraftfeltet. Oslo: Cappelen (82–103).
Tunander, Ola, 1993. 'Frihet, murer og frimurere i 90-talets Europa', Internasjonal Politikk 0(4): 419–434.
Tunander, Ola, 1993. 'Ögonblick av långsinthet', Internationella Studier(1): 98–100, 1.1.1993 00:00:00.
Tunander, Ola, 1992. 'Bushs sköna nya värld: En ny världsordning - en ny militär strategi' in Nya Tider - Ny Tids årsbok 1991-1992. Helsinki: Ny Tid (62–70).
Tunander, Ola, 1992. 'Hav, murar och streck i sanden - En ny militär världsordning' in Den eviga freden? - Perspektiv på en ny världsordning. Stockholm: Juristförlaget (31–66).
Tunander, Ola, 1992. 'Karl XII som kompass', Internationella Studier 0(4): 84–88, 1.1.1992 00:00:00.
Tunander, Ola, 1992. 'The Strategic Significance of the Nordic-Baltic Region' in . Oslo: The Europe Programme (211–229).
Tunander, Ola, 1992. 'New European dividing lines?' in Norway Facing a Changing Europe - Perspectives and Options. Oslo: The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, International Peace Research Institute, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies & Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (53–55).
Tunander, Ola, 1992. 'Sweden and the Baltic Region - Military Strategic Significance' in Baltic Sea Region - Conflict and Cooperation. Hamburg: Lit Verlag.
Tunander, Ola, 1991. 'The Two Norden: the North and the South, or the East and the West?' in Lassi Heininen & Jyrki Käkönen, eds, Arctic Complexity - Essays on Arctic Independences. Tampere, Finland: Tampere Peace Research Institute (4–22).
Tunander, Ola, 1991. 'The Two Nordens: The North and the South, or the East and the West?', Bulletin of Peace Proposals 22(1): 55–63.
Tunander, Ola, 1991. 'Den sovjetiska sjöbjörnen' [The Soviet Sea Bear], Internasjonal Politikk 1: 110–112.
Tunander, Ola, 1991. 'Bushs sköna nya värld: En ny världsordning - en ny militär strategi' [Bush’s Brave New World: A New World Order - A New Military Strategy’], Internasjonal Politikk 4: 421–439.
Tunander, Ola, 1991. 'Bush’s Brave New World: A New World Order - A New Military Strategy', Bulletin of Peace Proposals (later Security Dialogue) 22(4): 355–368.
Tunander, Ola, 1990. 'Naval Hierarchies - European 'Neutralism' and Regional Restraint at Sea' in Sverre Lodgaard, ed., Naval Forces – Arms Control and Confidence-Building. London, Newbury Park, New Delhi: SAGE Publications (159–186).
Tunander, Ola, 1990. 'Flottbesök och marin rustningskontroll', Internationella studier (Sweden) 5: 47–66.
Tunander, Ola, 1990. 'The Port Call Issue - Nordic Considerations', Bulletin of Peace Proposals (later Security Dialogue) 21(3): 337–352.
Tunander, Ola, 1989. 'The Logic of Deterrence', Journal of Peace Research 26(4): 353–365.
Tunander, Ola, 1989. 'Avskräckningens logik' [The Logic of Deterrence] in Håkan Wiberg, ed., Farväl till avskräckningen. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press (55–90).
Tunander, Ola, 1988. 'Four Scenarios for the Norwegian Sea' in Kari Möttölä, ed., The Arctic Challenge – Nordic and Canadian Approaches to Security and Cooperation in an Emerging International Region. Boulder and London: Westview Press (131–156).
Tunander, Ola, 1987. 'Grey Zone and Buffer Zone – The Nordic Borderland and the Soviet Union', Nordic Journal of Soviet & East European Studies 4(4): 3–34.
Other
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Non-Traditional Security Threats: Islamic Terrorism, International Crime, Heroin and War', presented at The Second Xiangshan Forum Conference, China Association for Military Science, Beijing, 24–26 October.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'Democratic State vs Deep State: approaching the Dual State of the West', presented at Government of the Shadows: Global Governance, Para-Politics and Organized Crime, Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne / Monash University, Melbourne, 10–12 August.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'Geopolitics of the North, Geopolitik of the Weak - a Post Cold War Return to Rudolf Kjellen', presented at Politics of Geopolitics: Revival of Geopolitical Thoughts in Europe, Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen, 5–6 June.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Humanitarian Intervention and calibration of violence: Some comments on the operation in Afghanistan', presented at China-Nordic Peace Research Conference, Beijing, China, 7–9 April.
Tunander, Ola, 2008. 'Humanitarian Intervention and Calibration of Violence', presented at China-Nordic Peace Research Conference, Beijing, 7–9 April.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'US Strategy for a New World Order: Some Preliminary Predictions on Peace and War in the World', presented at Peaceful Development and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region, Xiangshan, Beijing, 22–24 October.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'Kriget mot terror och Norges allierade' [The War on Terror and Norway's allies], presented at 'The War on Terror and' og Norges bånd til USA og EU, PRIO, Oslo, 21 September.
Tunander, Ola, 2006. 'The War on Terror and the Pax Americana', presented at Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes, Paris, 9 June.
Tunander, Ola, 2005. 'Post-Cold War Conflict Management; Transcending the Era of Terrorism', presented at Regional In/Security: Redefining Threaths and Responses, Antalya, Turkey, 20–23 October.
Tunander, Ola, 2004. 'Securitization, Dual State and US-European Geopolitical Divide or The Use of Terrorism to Construct World Order', presented at The Fifth Pan-European Conference (the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations) ‘Constructing World Orders’ (panel 28 'Geopolitics'), The Hague, Netherlands, 9–11 September.
Tunander, Ola, 2004. 'From Rudolf Kjellén to a Swedish "Dual State"', presented at the 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 17–20 March.
Tunander, Ola, 2004. 'War on Terror and Transformation of World Order', presented at Change and Adaptation – Contemporary Security Challenges and NATO, Side, Turkey, 14–16 May.
Tunander, Ola, 2004. 'From Coalition to Collision – Neo-Conservatives and Trans-Atlantic Relations', presented at Transatlantic Relations: What Next?, Washington, DC, 13–15 March.
Tunander, Ola, 2003. 'The Puppet show of Terror and Terrorism as Psychological Warfare', presented at The 16th Nordic and 4th Baltic Peace Research Conference, St Petersburg, 11–13 September.
Tunander, Ola, 2002. 'Puppet Show of Terror - Lessons from History', presented at PRIO-Sipri Conference on 'Terrorism and Armed Conflict', Voksenåsen, Oslo, 8–9 December.
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