Publications

Recent research publications

·   'Vietnam 1946: How the War Began', Berkeley CA: California University Press, 2010 (click here for extended set of footnotes).

·   'Energy Security and Climate Change: The Potential Role of China and India', in Gunnar Fermann, ed., Political Economy of Energy in  Europe: Forces of Fragmentation and Integration. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag (forthcoming).

·   'What Is It that Best Explains the East Asian Peace Since 1979? A Call for a Research Agenda', Asian Perspective 33(1), 2009: 111-136.  

·   'The Class route to nationhood: China, Vietnam, Norway, Cyprus - and France', Nations and Nationalism 15(3), 2009: 375-395.      

·    'Hva er nytt i krig?' [What’s New in War?], in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk and Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig, konflikt: jubileumsbok til Helga Hernes [Gender, war, conflict, anniversary book to Helga Hernes], Oslo: PAX, 2008: 127-137.

·    'Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and Indochina: A Reassessment', in Mark Atwood Lawrence & Fred Logevall, eds, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis.Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2007: 56–73.

Recent popular articles and media appearances

·   'Fred tross alt i Ukraina' [Peace in Ukraine after all], Morgenbladet, 8-24 September 2009.

·   'Tretti år med fred' [Thirty years of peace], Kina & Vi, 3-4, 2009: 7-10.

·   'Iran og Nord-Koreas gode fiende' [Iran's and North Korea's good enemy], Morgenbladet, 7-13 August 2009.

·    Euronews interview about global energy security.  

·   'Beijings pakistanske bekymring' [Beijing's Pakistani worry], Morgenbladet, 29 May - 5 June 2009.       

·   'Kina leter etter sin globale identitet' [China is searching for its global identity], Morgenbladet. 24-30 April 2009.

·   'Norske interesser og verdier' [Norwegian interests and values], Morgenbladet, 17-23 April 2009.  

·    'Vinnere og tapere i krisen’ [Winners and Losers in the Crisis], Morgenbladet, 13-19 March 2009.

·    'Intet selvmord på PRIO' [No suicide at PRIO], Aftenposten, 20 February 2009.

·    'Obama gir håp om stillehavssamarbeid' [Obama provides hope for Pacific cooperation], Morgenbladet, 6 February 2009.

·    'Må sikre fri forskning' [Necessary to secure open research], Aftenposten, 1 February 2009.

·       'Kinesisk hukommelse og glemsel' [Chinese Memory and Forgetfulness], Morgenbladet, 9-15 January 2009.

·      'Fredsavtale som inspirerer' [Inspiring Peace Treaty], Morgenbladet, 21-28 November 2008. 

·      'Thailands demokratiske dilemma' [Thailand's Democratic Dilemma], Morgenbladet, 14-20 November 2008.

·    'Om å gjette feil fredspris' [On guessing the wrong peaceprice], Morgenbladet, 17 October 2008.

·    'PRIO har ikke noe syn på ambassade' [PRIO does not have a view on the (Israeli) Embassy], Aftenposten, 7 October 2008.

·     'Asia in a Nordic Nutshell', NIAS nytt, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, No. 2 September 2008: 34-35.   

Monographs

·      The Vietnamese Revolution of 1945: Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and de Gaulle in a World at War, London, SAGE, 1991.

Review Internasjonal Politikk, 1992

      Review Far Eastern Economic Review, 1992

Review Journal of Peace Research, 1992

Review Kristeligt Dagblad, 1992

Review le Monde Diplomatque, 1992

Review Nyt fra historien, 1992

Review Pacific Review, 1992

Review Peace and Change, 1992

Review Quan Doi Nhan Dam(Hanoi), 1992

Review Pacific Affairs, 1992.

Review Greg Lockhart, University of New South Wales, 1992

Review Asian Studies (Australia), 1993

Review Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 1993

Review Société francaise d'histoire d'Outre Mer, 1993

Review Sprawy Miedzynarodowe (Poland), 1993

Review Pacific HistoricalRreview, 2, 1993

Review Journal of Asian Studies, 1993

·       1946: Le déclenchement de la guerre d'Indochine- les vêpres tonkinoises du 19 décembre,Paris, l'Harmattan, 1987.

Review Le Canard Enchainé, 1986

Review Képi Blanc, April 1988

Review Politique Étrangère, 1988

Review Historiske tidsskrift, 4/1988

Review Le Monde Diplomatique, January 1988

Review Norsk Militært Tidsskrift 1/88

Review American Historical Review, October 1989

Review Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, XXI, 2, 1990

·       'Folkehelse, trim, stjerner 1939–1986' Vol. 2 of Norsk idretts historie, Oslo, Aschehoug, 1986.

       Review Bergens Tidende 24 September 1986

Review Historisk Tidsskrift, 1, 1988

·       The Outbreak of War in Indochina, 1946, MA thesis (hovedoppgave) published as PRIO-report 3/84, 452  pp.

      (Available here: Chapters, Appendices, and Notes and References )

Review Journal of Asian Studies, November 1985

Review Politique Etrangère, 4, 1986

Reference in Grosser article, 1986

Comment Le Monde, 9 December 1988

Textbooks

·      'Et tilbakeblikk på verden før 1850', Oslo, Aschehoug 1997 (bilag til Spor i Tid, Verden  etter 1850).

·       Spor i tid: Verden etter 1850 (with Tor Egil Førland), world history 1850-95 for Norwegian secondary schools, Oslo: Aschehoug, 1995 (revised edition 1997).

Edited volumes

·       Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tønnesson, Nguyen Vu Tung and James G. Herschberg (eds.), 77 Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, 1964–1977, Cold War International History Project, Working Paper No. 22, 1998.

·       Stein Tønnesson, Juhani Koponen, Niels Steensgaard and Thommy Svensson (eds), Between National Histories and Global History, Helsingfors, Finska Historiska Samfundet, 1997 (Report to the Nordic Conference of Historians in Tampere, August).

·       Hans Antlöv & Stein Tønnesson (eds.), Imperial Policy and Southeast Asian Nationalism 1930–1957, London: NIAS/Curzon Press, 1995.

Review Bijdragen, 1996.

·       Stein Tønnesson & Hans Antlöv (eds.), Asian Forms of the Nation, London: NIAS/Curzon Press, 1996.

Review Asian Affairs, 1997

Review South Asia, 1997

Review Nations and Nationalism, 1998

Review  Contemporary South Asia, 1998

·       Stein Tønnesson (red.), Røde skoger: Skogsarbeidere forteller fra klassekampen på landsbygda, Oslo: PAX, 1976, 240 pp.(interviews with Norwegian woodcutters about class struggles in the 1920s and 30s.)

Articles in refereed journals