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New book:
Vietnam 1946: How the War Began, University of California Press, 2010. Click here for extended set of footnotes
Dr. Stein Tønnesson is a Norwegian historian who serves, from 2001 to 2009, as Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He was trained as a historian, and has in particular worked on East Asia. His doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Oslo in 1991, was on the international history of the Vietnamese revolution in 1945, and he is currently working on a manuscript for the University of California Press on Vietnam 1946: How the War Began. As Director of PRIO he has engaged in dialogue work in Cyprus, studies of energy dependence and Middle East policies, of global counter-terrorist strategies, and of the causes behind global and regional trends from 1992 to 2003 towards less and less murderous warfare. He currently intends to set up a research project on how to explain the ‘East Asian Peace’, meaning the relative peace in East Asia since 1979. He has also served as consultant to several Norwegian companies (StatoilHydro, Telenor, Norske Skog) and is a frequent commentator in the Nordic and international media on international affairs. He is also the author of a textbook in contemporary history for Norwegian secondary schools.
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