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J. Peter Burgess
Research Professor & Editor of Security Dialogue
Email: peter@prio.no
Work Phone:47 22547738
Mobile Phone:47 90923949
Profile
Research
Events
Publications
Research Interest • 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

J. Peter Burgess is the Series Editor for the PRIO New Security Studies.

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:

• Ph.D., Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours (2010)

• D.E.A., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1991)
• 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)

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Peer-reviewed-Journal-Article

Burgess, J. Peter (2012) Modernité et obsolescence du concept de sécurité énergétique , Cahiers De La Sécurité 2129–38.
Burgess, J. Peter (2012) Value, security and temporality in Nietzsche's critique of modernity , Sociological Review 60(40): 696–714.
Boy, Nina;Burgess, J. Peter; & Leander, Anna (2011) The Global Governance of Finance and Security: Introduction to the Special Issue , Security Dialogue 42(2): 115–122.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou (2010) The Human Security Tale of Two Europes , Global Society 24(4): 135–151.
Burgess, J. Peter (2009) There is No European Security, Only European Securities , Cooperation and Conflict 44(3): 309–328.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Begby, Endre (2009) Human Security and Liberal Peace , Public Reason 1(1): 45–57.
Burgess, J. Peter (2009) The New Nomos of Europe , Geopolitics 14(1): 135–160.
Burgess, J. Peter (2006) Dialektischer Kosmopolitismus [Dialectical Cosmopolitanism] , Zeitschrift Für Internationale Beziehungen 13(2): 251–256.
Burgess, J. Peter (2004) Ambivalent patriotism: Jacob Aall and Dano-Norwegian Identity before 1814 , Nations and Nationalism 10(4): 619–637.
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 (2004) Theory of European Identity: Project Results 79.
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.

Monograph

Burgess, J. Peter (2011) The Ethical Subject of Security: Geopolitical Rationality and the Threat against Europe. : Routledge. PRIO New Security Studies.
Burgess, J. Peter;Amicelle, Anthony;Bartels, Edien;Bellanova, Rocco;Cerami, Alfio;Eggum, Erik;Hoogensen, Gunhild;Kittelsen, Sonja;Knibbe, Kim;de Koning, Martijn;Koser, Khalid;Krause, Keith; & Salemink, Oscar (2007) Promoting Human Security: Ethical, Normative and Educational Frameworks in Western Europe. : .
Burgess, J. Peter (1997) The Gender of Signs. Essays in Comparative Literature. : .

Book Chapter

Burgess, J. Peter(2011) Kulturfestung Europa. Über die Notwendigkeit und Unmöglichkeit Europäer, zu sein [On the Necessity and Impossibility of being a European] Europe: Insights from the In- and Outside. : Zentrum Für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft.
Gräns, Jonas; & Burgess, J. Peter(2011) Human Security Contemporary Security and Strategy. : Palgrave Macmillan(89–105).
Burgess, J. Peter; & Gutwirth, Serge(2011) Introduction: Security, Migration and Integration Europe Under Threat? Security, Immigration, Integration. : VUB Press(13–15).
Burgess, J. Peter; & Rodin, David(2008) The Role of Law, Ethics and Justice in Security Practices : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2007) The Evolution of European Union Law and Carl Schmitt's Theory of the Nomos of Europe The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt. : (185–201).
Burgess, J. Peter(2006) Security Dialogue : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2006) Security Dialogue : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2006) Security Dialogue : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2006) The Ethical Transformation of Risk : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2006) The Ethical Transformation of Risk : (570–576).
Burgess, J. Peter(2006) Modernity and Political Culture: Beck’s Theory of a Cosmopolitan Europe The Political Culture(S) of Europe. : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2005) The Legitimacy of War in the Age of Globalisation: EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy Globalisering Der Öffentlichkeit?. : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2005) Simmel and the Federalist Vision: Between Cultural and Economic Value Globalisering Der Öffentlichkeit?. : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2005) Security Dialogue : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2005) Security Dialogue : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2005) Security Dialogue : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2004) The Ethics of Security Globalization, Armed Conflicts, and Security. : (209–226).
Burgess, J. Peter(2004) Eastern Expansion between Americanization and Europeanization : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2004) Eastern Expansion between Americanization and Europeanization : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2004) Sivilisatorisk begrepsmakt [The Civilizational Power of Concepts] : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2004) Sivilisatorisk begrepsmakt [The Civilizational Power of Concepts] : .
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] : .
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] : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2003) The Abduction of "The Abduction of Europa" Museum Europa: the European Cultural Heritage Between Economics and Politics. : (85–105).
Burgess, J. Peter(2003) Introduction: The Myth of Europe Museum Europa: the European Cultural Heritage Between Economics and Politics. : (7–9).
Burgess, J. Peter(2003) Den opplyste romantikken og den romantiske opplysningen [The enlightened romantic and the romantic enlightenment] Den Norske Pastorale Opplysningen. Nye Perspektiver På Norsk Nasjonsbygging På 1800-Tallet Tallet. : (103–116).
Burgess, J. Peter(2003) Forord [Foreword] Den Norske Pastorale Opplysningen. Nye Perspektiver På Norsk Nasjonsbygging På 1800-Tallet. : (5–7).
Burgess, J. Peter(2003) Jacob Aal and the Two Faces of Dano-Norwegian Patriotism Fædrelandske Ideer (1799-1814). : (9–28).
Helland, Frode; & Burgess, J. Peter(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] Kulturforskning. : (19–28).
Burgess, J. Peter(2003) Culture and the Rationality of Law from Weimar to Maastricht Darker Legacies of Law In Europe. the Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism Over Europe and Its Legal Traditions. : (143–166).
Burgess, J. Peter(2002) Nation and Language at the Frontier of National Culture Nation, Modernity, Written Culture. : (11–14).
Burgess, J. Peter(2002) Cultural Semiotics and New Norwegian Written Culture. A Response to Kjell Lars Berge Nation, Modernity, Written Culture. : (77–84).
Burgess, J. Peter; & Stråth, Bo(2001) Money and Political Economy: From the Werner Plan to the Delors Report and Beyond From the Werner Plan to the EMU, In Search of a Political Economy For Europe. : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2001) Språk som motstandsmoment i kollektiv identitet Kultur, Identitet, Erfaring. : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2001) Identitet og mangfald. Det norske, det skandinaviske, og det europeiske Den Europeiske Identiteten Og Den Skandinaviske. : .
Burgess, J. Peter(2001) In the Service of Narrative. Master and Servant in the Philosophy of Hegel Narratives of the Servant. : (34).
Burgess, J. Peter(1999) Coal, Steel and Spirit: The Double Reading of European Unity (1948-50) Europe and the Other and Europe As the Other. : (232–253).
Burgess, J. Peter(1999) The Logic of Language and Nation in the Emergence of Nynorsk Collective Identity and Citizenship In Europe: Fields of Access and Exclusion. : (71–91).

Edited Volume

Burgess, J. Peter (ed.) (2006) Europeisk identitet / L'identité européenne [European Identity]. : Tankens uavhengighet I.
Burgess, J. Peter (ed.) (2003) Den norske pastorale opplysningen. Nye perspektiver på norsk nasjonsbygging på 1800-tallet. : .
Burgess, J. Peter (ed.) (2003) Museum Europa: The European Cultural Heritage between Economics and Politics. : .
Burgess, J. Peter (ed.) (2002) Nation, Modernity, Written Culture. : .
Burgess, J. Peter (ed.) (2001) Culture and Rationality. European Frameworks of Norwegian Identity. : .
Stråth, Bo;Burgess, J. Peter; & Angell, Svein Ivar, eds, (2001) Den europeiske identiteten og den skandinaviske. : .
Tunander, Ola; & Burgess, J. Peter, eds, (2000) European Security Identities. Contested understandings of EU and NATO. : PRIO Report 2-2000.
Burgess, J. Peter (ed.) (1997) Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Postmodern Europe. : Postmodern Studies.

Non-refereed_Journal_Article

Burgess, J. Peter (2010) La nouvelle éthique politique de l'insécurité [The New Political Ethics of Insecurity] , Ethique Et Économie 7(2): .
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.
Owen, Taylor; & Burgess, J. Peter (2004) Editors’ Introduction: What is Human Security? , Security Dialogue 35(3): 345–346.
Burgess, J. Peter (2003) Commentary , Security Dialogue 34(4): 387–390.
Burgess, J. Peter (2003) Commentary , Security Dialogue 34(3): 251–254.
Burgess, J. Peter (2003) The Politics of the South China Sea: Territoriality and International Law , Security Dialogue 34(1): 7–10.
Burgess, J. Peter (2003) Commentary , Security Dialogue 34(1): 5–6.
Burgess, J. Peter (2003) Commentary , Security Dialogue 34(2): 131–134.
Burgess, J. Peter (2002) Editor's Comments , Security Dialogue 33(4): .
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(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): .

Popular Article

Burgess, J. Peter (2010) Norge ute av takt med NATO [Norway Out of Sync with NATO], Dagbladet, 14 January.
Burgess, J. Peter (2009) The Future of Europe, XING Magazin, 1 March.
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, November.

Phd Thesis

Boy, Nina (2011) What Kind of Security does Financial Securitisation Provide?. PhD thesis, Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, . [Forthcoming]

Master Thesis

Johansen, Amund (2008) Promoting Democracy in the Neighborhood: The European Neighborhood Policy and Moldova. MA thesis, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, .

Conference Paper

Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Security in the Clouds, presented at Future Internet, , 15 December.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Sécurité européenne, enjeux internationaux [European Security, International Stakes], presented at Facultés universitaires de Notre Dame de la Paix, , 16 December.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Security 2.0: Beyond Biometric Personhood, presented at Governance and Ethics of Emerging ICT and Security Technologies, , 18 November.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Security Culture and the EU Internal Security Strategy, presented at The Future of the EU’s Integrated Border Management Strategy, , 5 October.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 The Time of Security, presented at ECPR Standing Group on International Relations, , 10 September.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Research Needs in Societal Security and the Findings of ESRIF, presented at Workshop on 'Societal Security' R&D: Lessons Learnt, Gaps and Future Needs in 'Societal Security' Research, , 1 July.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Security as a Prerequisite for Prosperity , presented at EU Security Research Conference, , 15 September.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Societal Security in Security R & D, presented at 'Societal Security' in Research & Development, , 1 July.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Human Security: The New Panacea and its Political Usages, presented at New Forms of Security Threats and Challenges in the Arab World, , 24 June.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 The Fragile Subject of Security: Butler’s Theory of Vulnerability, presented at New Landscapes of Justice and Security, , 17 June.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Sicherheitskultur und die interne Sicherheitsstrategie [Security Culture and the Internal Security Strategy], presented at Zivil-militärisches Zusammenwirken im Krisen- und Katastrophenmanagement, , 6 May.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Surveillance and Security, presented at Surveillance Studies Annual Conference, , 16 April.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Privacy and Border Security, presented at Border Management Forum, , 16 April.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Perceptions of Value and Insecurity, presented at RIPENSA workshop, , 8 April.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Security and the Essence of Values: The Nietzschean Moment, presented at The Biopolitics of Values, , 4 February.
Burgess, J. Peter 2010 Security, Value and Subjectivity: The Nietzschean Moment, presented at Biopolitics of Value, , 14 January.
Burgess, J. Peter 2009 The Time of Security: From Preventive to Pre-emptive Security Economies, presented at CHALLENGE Concluding Conference, , 18 May.
Burgess, J. Peter;Owen, Taylor; & Sinha, Uttam 2009 The Culture of Water in the Indus Water Treaty, presented at 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Environmental Change, , 29 April.
Burgess, J. Peter 2009 Value Premises for a European Political Community, presented at UACES Working Group on Values and the EU, , 24 April.
Burgess, J. Peter 2009 The EU in 2020, presented at Extra Europe, , 21 March.
Burgess, J. Peter 2009 Interior and exterior aspects of border security, presented at INEX-FRONTEX workshop, , 25 February.
Burgess, J. Peter 2009 Insecurities of Privacy, presented at 50th Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, , 18 February.
Burgess, J. Peter 2009 Ethical Aspects of Counter-terrorism, presented at Transnational Terrorism, Security and the Rule of Law, , 5 February.
Burgess, J. Peter 2007 Norway, Article V and the New Strategic Concept, presented at NATO and Article V, , 8 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 Risk, Gender and the Real: Lacan for Risk Analysis, presented at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, , 28 February – 3 March.
Burgess, J. Peter 2006 Risk as Gendered Knowledge, presented at a conference on 'Security, Technologies of Risk, and the Political', , 23–24 November.
Burgess, J. Peter 2006 A Human Security Report for Western Europe, 9 June.
Burgess, J. Peter 2006 The Social Construction of Threat, presented at the CHALLENGE conference on Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes, , September.
Burgess, J. Peter 2006 Sécurité humaine et désarmement [Human Security and Disarmament], presented at Ministère des affaires étrangères, , 6 June.
Burgess, J. Peter 2006 Methodologischer Kosmopolitismus [Methodological Cosmopolitanism], presented at the Annual Conference of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, , 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, , 11–12 Septermber.
Burgess, J. Peter 2006 Insecurity of the European Community of Values, presented at 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), , 22–25 March.
Burgess, J. Peter 2004 The New Nomos of Europe, presented at the Fifth Pan-European International Relations Conference, , 9–11 September.
Burgess, J. Peter 2004 The National Thing: Zizek's Contribution to the Nationalism Debate, presented at Democracy and Psychoanalysis, APCS, , 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, , 22 October.
Burgess, J. Peter 2004 The Insecurity of the Community of Values, presented at COST conference, , 20–21 September.
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, , 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, , 1–2 November.
Burgess, J. Peter 2003 Psychoanalysis of the National Thing: Žižek’s Contribution to the Nationalism Debate, presented at Globalization and Psychoanalysis, , 25–27 August.
Burgess, J. Peter 2003 The Ethical Subject of Security, presented at Globalization, Uncertainty, New Prospects, , 29–30 May.
Burgess, J. Peter 2003 Identity, Community, Security, 5–6 May.
Burgess, J. Peter 2003 Identity and the Intolerable, 12 March.
Burgess, J. Peter 2001 European Federalism between Cultural and Economic Value, 1 January.
Burgess, J. Peter 2001 The Legitimacy of War in the Age of Globalisation: EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, 1 January.

PRIO Policy Brief

Burgess, J. Peter (2012) The Societal Impact of Security Research 9. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter (2008) Security as Ethics 6. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter (2008) Security after Privacy 5. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter (2008) Human Values and Security Technologies 7. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Jore, Sissel Haugdal (2008) The Influence of Globalization on Societal Security: The International Setting 3. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Jore, Sissel Haugdal (2008) The Influence of Globalization on Societal Security: The Norwegian Context 4. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Mouhleb, Naima (2008) International Collaboration on Societal Security: NATO, the EU, the UN and Norway 2. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Mouhleb, Naima (2007) Societal Security: Definitions and Scope for the Norwegian Setting 2. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Mouhleb, Naima (2007) A Presentation of the State of Societal Security in Norway 9. : PRIO.
Burgess, J. Peter; & Kittelsen, Sonja (2007) Between Prevention and Preparedness: The European Commission’s Green Paper on Bio-preparedness 3. : PRIO.

Report External Series

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), : .
Burgess, J. Peter (2005) After the Monopoly of Violence: The Legitimacy of Post-national Military Intervention: .
Burgess, J. Peter (2003) Security Identity, interim report for the project Theory of European Security Identity, : .
Burgess, J. Peter (2001) Writings on Visual Art and Literature: .
Burgess, J. Peter (2001) Vestens fremtidsforståelse: Del 1: Fremtidens fortid [The West's Future Understanding: Part One: The Future's Past]: .