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Ola Tunander
Ola Tunander
Research Professor
Email: ola@prio.no
Work Phone:22 54 77 41
Mobile Phone:47 906 82 389
Profile
Research
Events
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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.







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Peer-reviewed-Journal-Article

Tunander, Ola (2012) Subs and PSYOPs: The 1982 Swedish Submarine Intrusions , Intelligence and National Security 27(6): .
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 (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 (2005) Swedish Geopolitics: From Rudolf Kjellén to a Swedish ‘Dual State’ , Geopolitics 10(3): 546–566.
Tunander, Ola (2001) Swedish-German geopolitics for a new century - Rudolf Kjellén's 'The State as a Living Organism' , Review of International Studies 27451–463.
Tunander, Ola (2000) A Criticism of Court Chroniclers , Cooperation and Conflict 35(4): 451–460.
Tunander, Ola (1999) The Uneasy Imbrication of Nation-State and NATO. The Case of Sweden , Cooperation and Conflict 32(2): 169–203.
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) Should NATO Be Extended? , Security Dialogue 26(3): 350–351.
Tunander, Ola (1993) Frihet, murer og frimurere i 90-talets Europa , Internasjonal Politikk 0(4): 419–434.
Tunander, Ola (1993) Bortom den tragiska diplomatin , Internasjonal Politikk 0(3): 343–347.
Tunander, Ola (1993) Om murer, etniske grupper, stater og nasjoner , Internasjonal Politikk 0(4): .
Tunander, Ola (1989) The Logic of Deterrence , Journal of Peace Research 26(4): 353–365.
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.

Book Chapter

Tunander, Ola(2010) Non-Traditional Security Threats: Islamic Terrorism, International Crime, Heroin and War International Security Cooperation and Asia-Pacific Security. : (311–328).
Tunander, Ola(2009) Democratic State vs. Deep State - Approaching the Dual State of the West Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty. : (56–72).
Tunander, Ola(2008) US Strategy for a New World Order: Some Preliminary Predictions on Peace and War in the World Peaceful Development and Security In the Asia-Pacific Region. : (117–131).
Tunander, Ola(2007) The Dual State and the Sovereign - a Schmittian Approach to Western Politics Den Ondeste Mand I Live? Lesninger Om Og Mot Carl Schmitt. : (187–208).
Tunander, Ola(2006) War on Terror and US Transformation of World Order International Security Today - Understanding Change and Debating Strategy. : (187–204).
Tunander, Ola(2006) War on Terror and the Pax Americana 9/11 and the American Empire. : (149–168).
Tunander, Ola(2002) Sveriges relationer till NATO [Sweden's relationship to NATO] Nordiska Säkerhetspolitiska Utmaningar. : (127–151).
Tunander, Ola(2000) The Informal NATO or NATO als Gemeinschaft - The Case of Sweden European Security Identities - Contested Understandings of the EU and NATO. : (81–101).
Tunander, Ola(1999) Norway, Sweden and Nordic Cooperation The European North: Hard, Soft and Covic Security. : (39–48).
Tunander, Ola(1998) Den kluvna maktens ansikten Eliterna Som Abdikerade. : (133–162).
Tunander, Ola(1997) Introduction Geopolitics In Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. : (1–14).
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 Remaking Identity: Political Culture and Cultural Politics In Today's Europe. : (213–236).
Tunander, Ola(1997) Post-Cold War Europe - a Synthesis of a Bipolar Friend-Foe Structure and a Hierarchic Cosmos-Chaos Structure? Geopolitics In Post-Wall Europe: Security, Territory and Identity. : (15–42).
Tunander, Ola(1997) Norge og Norden Norges Utenrikspolitik. : (282–299).
Tunander, Ola(1996) Norway's Post-Cold War Security - Between Friend and Foe, or between Cosmos and Chaos Visions of European Security Policy - Focal Point Sweden and Northern Europe. : (48–63).
Tunander, Ola(1995) Frihet, murar og frimurare i 90-talets Europa Europa Och Muren. : (23–45).
Tunander, Ola(1994) Inventing the Barents Region - Overcoming the East-West Divide The Barents Region - Cooperation In Arctic Europe. : (31–44).
Wæver, Ole; & Tunander, Ola(1994) Murar - Europas nya medeltid Europa Och Muren. : .
Tunander, Ola(1993) Norden och Havet Norge I Det Politiske Kraftfeltet. : (82–103).
Tunander, Ola(1992) Hav, murar och streck i sanden - En ny militär världsordning Den Eviga Freden? - Perspektiv På En Ny Världsordning. : (31–66).
Tunander, Ola(1992) Bushs sköna nya värld: En ny världsordning - en ny militär strategi Nya Tider - Ny Tids Årsbok 1991-1992. : (62–70).
Tunander, Ola(1992) New European dividing lines? Norway Facing a Changing Europe - Perspectives and Options. : (53–55).
Tunander, Ola(1992) Sweden and the Baltic Region - Military Strategic Significance Baltic Sea Region - Conflict and Cooperation. : .
Tunander, Ola(1991) The Two Norden: the North and the South, or the East and the West? Arctic Complexity - Essays on Arctic Independences. : (4–22).
Tunander, Ola(1990) Naval Hierarchies - European 'Neutralism' and Regional Restraint at Sea Naval Forces – Arms Control and Confidence-Building. : (159–186).
Tunander, Ola(1989) Avskräckningens logik [The Logic of Deterrence] Farväl Till Avskräckningen. : (55–90).
Tunander, Ola(1988) Four Scenarios for the Norwegian Sea The Arctic Challenge – Nordic and Canadian Approaches to Security and Cooperation In an Emerging International Region. : (131–156).

Edited Volume

Tunander, Ola; & Burgess, J. Peter, eds, (2000) European Security Identities. Contested understandings of EU and NATO. : PRIO Report 2-2000.

Non-refereed_Journal_Article

Tunander, Ola (2010) Nationella operationer vs. NATO-operationer [National Operations vs. NATO Operations] , Historisk Tidskrift 139(2): 283–285.
Tunander, Ola (2010) Court Chronicles vs. Historical Research. A Reply to Bengt Gustafsson , Forum Navale 66148–150.
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.
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.
Tunander, Ola (2008) A Return to the "Geopolitics of the Weak" , Heartland - Eurasian Review of Geopolitics (2): 128–138.
Tunander, Ola (2008) Il ritorno delle "geopolitica dei deboli" , Limes - Revista Italiano Di Geopoliti-Ca (2): 181–185.
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 .
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 .
Tunander, Ola (2002) I Sverige föredrar man att ingenting se och ingenting höra , Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Och Tidskrift 397–106.
Tunander, Ola (2002) Chefen för operationsledningen 1982 - Part i målet , Tidskrift I Sjöväsendet 2137–150.
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 (1999) Nordic Cooperation , Odin (Norwegian MFA) .
Tunander, Ola (1999) Drømmen om det empiriske grundfjell , Kritik 32(141): 67–69.
Tunander, Ola (1997) New Russian-Norwegian Relations - A Complex Partnership , International Affairs (Moscow) 43(4): 58–65.
Tunander, Ola (1997) Slozhnoe Partnerstvo , Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn (Moscow) (5): 62–69.
Tunander, Ola (1997) A Complex Partnership , International Affairs - a Russian Journal of World Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations 43(4): 58–67.
Tunander, Ola (1993) Ögonblick av långsinthet , Internationella Studier (1): 98–100.
Tunander, Ola (1992) Karl XII som kompass , Internationella Studier 0(4): 84–88.
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 1110–112.
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) Flottbesök och marin rustningskontroll , Internationella Studier (Sweden) 547–66.
Tunander, Ola (1990) The Port Call Issue - Nordic Considerations , Bulletin of Peace Proposals (Later Security Dialogue) 21(3): 337–352.

Popular Article

Tunander, Ola (2011) Løgnens offer [The Victims of the Lie], Aftenposten, 17 November.
Tunander, Ola (2011) Massedrap og massemedia [Mass Killing and Mass Media], Ny Tid, 11 November.
Tunander, Ola (2011) Fra Hammarskjöld til Ban Ki-moon [From Hammarskjöld to Ban Ki-moon], Dagsavisen, 12 October.
Tunander, Ola (2011) Fem scenarier for Libya [Five scenarios for Libya], Klassekampen, 10 October.
Tunander, Ola (2011) Libya i sort og hvitt [Libya in Black and White], Aftenposten, 17 September.
Tunander, Ola (2011) Har vi blitt lurt i Libya [Have we been Deceived in Libya], Klassekampen, 7 September.
Tunander, Ola (2011) På Tripolis strender [On the shores of Tripoli], Dagsavisen, 3 August.
Tunander, Ola (2011) Frihet, makt og renslighet [Freedom, Power and Dissent], Aftenposten, 16 March.
Tunander, Ola (2010) Hvem snakket med hvem? [Who talked to whom?], Aftenposten, 9 November.
Tunander, Ola (2009) Kollektivt Selvmord [Collective Suicide], Aftenposten, 17 February.
Tunander, Ola (2009) En forsker må ha lønn [A Researcher Must Have a Salary], Aftenposten, 29 January.
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 (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 (2005) Clemmensens blindhet [Clemmensen's blindness], Berlingske Tidende, 15/09/2005.
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 (2001) Bror Stefenson fick granske sig själv, Dagens Nyheter, 02/12/2001.
Tunander, Ola (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.

Conference Paper

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, , 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, , 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, , 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, , 7–9 April.
Tunander, Ola 2008 Humanitarian Intervention and Calibration of Violence, presented at China-Nordic Peace Research Conference, , 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, , 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, , 21 September.
Tunander, Ola 2006 Security, Securitization and the War on Terror, presented at 9/11 Five Years After: Values, Risk and Identity in the War on Terror, , 11–12 September.
Tunander, Ola 2006 The War on Terror and the Pax Americana, presented at Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes, , 9 June.
Tunander, Ola 2005 Post-Cold War Conflict Management; Transcending the Era of Terrorism, presented at Regional In/Security: Redefining Threaths and Responses, , 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'), , 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, , 17–20 March.
Tunander, Ola 2004 War on Terror and Transformation of World Order, presented at Change and Adaptation – Contemporary Security Challenges and NATO, , 14–16 May.
Tunander, Ola 2004 From Coalition to Collision – Neo-Conservatives and Trans-Atlantic Relations, presented at Transatlantic Relations: What Next?, , 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, , 11–13 September.
Tunander, Ola 2002 Puppet Show of Terror - Lessons from History, presented at PRIO-Sipri Conference on 'Terrorism and Armed Conflict', , 8–9 December.

Report Other

Tunander, Ola (1998) Nordiskt Samarbete [Nordic Cooperation], Nytt fra Norge (News from Norway), : .