After 2000, he organized Nordic-Chinese dialogue conferences with the China Institute of International Studies and the Nordic peace research and international affairs institutes. Tunander wrote and edited two Swedish books on power, identity, and territory and co-edited Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe (1997). He contributed to the Russian journal International Affairs. Tunander wrote contributions about Northern Europe, Nordic Cooperation, and Scandinavism published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Olof Palme International Center. In 1994, he co-edited a volume on the post-Cold War regional cooperation in Arctic Europe, The Barents Region with contributions by Norwegian and Russian foreign ministers. Robert Bathurst and Tunander initiated Norwegian-Russian dialogue seminars in the early 1990s. Neumann, Sverre Jervell, and Espen Barth Eide. He headed a Nordic study group, "A new Europe", from mid-1980s with Ole Wæver, Iver B. Career įrom the early 1990s, Tunander wrote on military strategy, confidence-building measures, region-building and US remaking of world order. In 2000, he was appointed research professor. In 1995, he became the head of PRIO's Foreign and Security Policy Program. Center for Naval Analyses and Naval Postgraduate School. In 1989, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow and was given tenure. While finalizing his doctoral thesis Cold Water Politics (1989) on US Maritime Strategy, technology, and the geopolitics of the North, he received a research position at PRIO in Oslo. In 1989, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Department for Technology and Social Change, Linköping University. In 1987, he wrote a volume on United States Maritime Strategy for the Swedish Defence Research Agency. He has written and edited 12 books and a number of articles on security politics, naval strategy, submarine operations, geopolitics, dual state, psychological operations (PSYOP) and Cold War history.Īfter obtaining a Masters in economic history at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 1981, Tunander wrote for philosophical magazines and in 1985 he published two books in Swedish. Tunander is married to the Chinese scholar Yao Xiaoling. He is the son of Museum Director Ingemar Tunander and his first wife Gunvor (born Lilja). He worked as a researcher at PRIO in the period 1987-2016. Ola Tunander (born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948) is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, Norway). International relations, peace and conflict studies
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