Stein Tønnesson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 379861 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stein Tønnesson |
| PRENOMES | Stein |
| SOBRENOME | Tønnesson |
| ASSINATURA | TØNNESSON S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Copenhagen |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
When, how, and why did the Vietnam War begin? Although its end is dated April 30, 1975, there is no agreement as to when it began. The Vietnam War was an enormously complex conflict and while any comprehensive reckoning must include the role of the US, it was not an 'American War'. This volume presents the scholarship that has flourished since the 1990s to situate the war and its origins within longer chronologies and larger interpretative perspe…
Lives in Peace Research
Non-inclusive ceasefires do not bring peace
Based on conflict data, interviews and media monitoring, this study of Myanmar’s non-inclusive ceasefires develops a four-step argument about the effect of ceasefires in complex conflict systems. First, non-state armed groups rarely co-ordinate their actions strategically. This makes it easy for governments to obtain ceasefires with some groups while fighting others. Second, when ceasefires ensure armed groups’ survival, they mostly hold. Third, …
Pretending to be States
Which functions do social media fill for non-state armed groups in countries with internal armed conflict? Building on conflict data, interviews and media monitoring, we have reviewed the use of social media by Myanmar’s nine most powerful armed groups. The first finding is that they act like states, using social media primarily to communicate with their constituents. Second, they also use social media as a tool of armed struggle, for command and…
Pierre Asselin. Vietnam’s American War
Pierre Asselin’s absorbing narrative Vietnam’s American War: A History is the best introduction available to Hanoi’s decision-making in the Vietnam War. Its title is ingenious: It leaves no doubt about the topic while shifting the usual perspective from the United States to Vietnam. The “American War” followed the “French War” (1946–1954) and preceded the “Civil War” (1973–1975), which was followed by the “Third Indochina War” (1978–1989). The bo…
Will nationalism drive conflict in Asia
The article is part of a discussion of why nationalism is surging in the world today, instead of having run its course. It discusses this question in an Asian context with main focus on state nationalism in China, Japan and Taiwan, and on sub-state nationalism in Myanmar. The article argues that the new nationalism is dangerous and could, in conjunction with other factors, lead to open conflict in a region that has long enjoyed relative peace
War and Peace Between Nations Since 1945
The chapter provides an overview of war and peace among nations in Southeast Asia since 1945 and discusses how a long period of widespread and intense warfare could be followed by relative peace fr ...
The South China Sea
The article looks at three ways in which international law has affected government behavior in the South China Sea. It has exacerbated disputes. It has probably curtailed the use of force. And it has made it difficult to imagine solutions that violate the law of the sea
Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace
Nuclear deterrence and economic interdependence are key factors in cost calculations underpinning decisions on war or peace between states. This paper combines deterrence and interdependence in a proposed theory of major power peace, with reference to a number of insightful works on the ongoing transition of power from the US to a rising China. The paper explores the hypothesis that as long as the US and China can deter each other with a combinat…
Can Russia keep its special ties with Vietnam while moving closer and closer to China
While entering into a deep confrontation with the West in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, Russia has sought to uphold its international profile by upgrading its strategic partnership with China and adding new economic content to it, first of all in energy deals. At the same time, Moscow is aware of the risks related to becoming a minor partner to powerful China and to diminishing its ability to make its own contributions to forming the globa…
Imperial Policy and Southeast Asian Nationalism
Traditionally, the tumultuous period 1930-50 in South East Asia has been viewed as a dichotomy, of European vs Asian or imperialist vs nationalist. This highly acclaimed volume presents another (triangular) perspective and challenges established wisdom about the period.
Asian Forms of the Nation
The general tendency among theorists in nationalism and national identity has been to assume that the modernization process in Asia and Africa is a kind of distorted reflection of a Western precedent; Asian forms of the nation have rarely been seen as independent, alternative models. Among today's leading theoreticians, there is a growing tendency to take Asia seriously, and to include Asian examples in the general discussion. The aim of the pres…
Embers of War
This fascinating narrative is now the best English-language account of the First Indochina War and one of the two most readable accounts of the whole sequel of wars in Indochina. The other is the late Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History (1983). Fredrik Logevall's book, firmly based on the latest international research, represents a tremendous achievement by a still-young scholar, whose study of the 1963–1965 period, Choosing War: The Lost Chance …
Asianizing the Cold War
If we consider the Cold War to have lasted from 1945 to 1989, and to have consisted in a superpower arms race and military standoff in Europe between a Western and an Eastern camp, then Cold War history would gradually lose much of its relevance as a basis for understanding the twenty-first–century world. The Cold War would become a special interest for historians of the twentieth century and lose attention from social scientists. Heonik Kwon is …
Active citation through hyperlinks
The hyperlink revolution in academic referencing is long overdue. Why is the potential offered by the internet for providing hyperlinks to sources so little utilized by scholars? The article discusses the most likely reasons and suggests that the revolution will happen only when it is promoted from above through mandatory hyperlinks in term papers, dissertations, journal articles and scholarly monographs. This will make it possible for readers to…
Historiske anfektelser
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Vietnam 1946How the War Began
A Clash of Republics 2. The Chinese Trap 3. Modus Vivendi 4. Massacre 5. The French Trap 6. Who Turned Out the Lights? 7. If Only ... Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
The class route to nationhood
This essay explores the proposition that China and Vietnam represent a fourth class route to modern nationhood, in addition to the ethnic (German), civic (French) and plural (American) routes. Nation‐states emerging along the class route are characterised by an exclusive membership based on social class rather than just ethnicity, living under the same laws or participation in liberation from foreign rule. The essay compares China's and Vietnam's…
Regionale stormakters globale rolle. Kina, India, Brasil og Sør-Afrika
The South China Sea in the Age of European Decline
The history of the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands in the period 1930–56 will be analysed here within a context of regional political and strategic developments. The focus will be on how French and British authorities estimated the economic and strategic value of the two island groups in various periods. The Paracels and Spratlys are studied the way one would examine the pawns in a game of chess. In themselves they are unimportant, but in ce…
Power Shift
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Globalising national states
Globalisation has ambiguous effects on states. On the one hand, it favours national states since citizens' identification with their state provides for political and social stability. On the other hand, globalisation makes it difficult for states to be national because the scope of sovereign decision‐making is reduced, and many citizens prioritise trans‐national networks over national ones. Hence well‐established national states, which are suffic…
Imperial Alchemy
Power Shift
Pretending to be States
Which functions do social media fill for non-state armed groups in countries with internal armed conflict? Building on conflict data, interviews and media monitoring, we have reviewed the use of social media by Myanmar’s nine most powerful armed groups. The first finding is that they act like states, using social media primarily to communicate with their constituents. Second, they also use social media as a tool of armed struggle, for command and…
The South China Sea in the Age of European Decline
The history of the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands in the period 1930–56 will be analysed here within a context of regional political and strategic developments. The focus will be on how French and British authorities estimated the economic and strategic value of the two island groups in various periods. The Paracels and Spratlys are studied the way one would examine the pawns in a game of chess. In themselves they are unimportant, but in ce…
Globalising national states
Globalisation has ambiguous effects on states. On the one hand, it favours national states since citizens' identification with their state provides for political and social stability. On the other hand, globalisation makes it difficult for states to be national because the scope of sovereign decision‐making is reduced, and many citizens prioritise trans‐national networks over national ones. Hence well‐established national states, which are suffic…
Embers of War
This fascinating narrative is now the best English-language account of the First Indochina War and one of the two most readable accounts of the whole sequel of wars in Indochina. The other is the late Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History (1983). Fredrik Logevall's book, firmly based on the latest international research, represents a tremendous achievement by a still-young scholar, whose study of the 1963–1965 period, Choosing War: The Lost Chance …
The class route to nationhood
This essay explores the proposition that China and Vietnam represent a fourth class route to modern nationhood, in addition to the ethnic (German), civic (French) and plural (American) routes. Nation‐states emerging along the class route are characterised by an exclusive membership based on social class rather than just ethnicity, living under the same laws or participation in liberation from foreign rule. The essay compares China's and Vietnam's…
Sino-Vietnamese Rapprochement and the South China Sea Irritant
On 4 November 2002, China and ASEAN signed a Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (ASEAN, 2002). Incidents related to occupation of islands, ‘illegal’ fishing and oil exploration had been major irritants in the relationship between China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam during the 1990s. The declaration on a code of conduct reflects the complexity of the South China Sea dispute: it is a multilateral agreement…
Will nationalism drive conflict in Asia
The article is part of a discussion of why nationalism is surging in the world today, instead of having run its course. It discusses this question in an Asian context with main focus on state nationalism in China, Japan and Taiwan, and on sub-state nationalism in Myanmar. The article argues that the new nationalism is dangerous and could, in conjunction with other factors, lead to open conflict in a region that has long enjoyed relative peace
Vietnam ́s Objective in the South China Sea
Non-inclusive ceasefires do not bring peace
Based on conflict data, interviews and media monitoring, this study of Myanmar’s non-inclusive ceasefires develops a four-step argument about the effect of ceasefires in complex conflict systems. First, non-state armed groups rarely co-ordinate their actions strategically. This makes it easy for governments to obtain ceasefires with some groups while fighting others. Second, when ceasefires ensure armed groups’ survival, they mostly hold. Third, …
Can Russia keep its special ties with Vietnam while moving closer and closer to China
While entering into a deep confrontation with the West in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, Russia has sought to uphold its international profile by upgrading its strategic partnership with China and adding new economic content to it, first of all in energy deals. At the same time, Moscow is aware of the risks related to becoming a minor partner to powerful China and to diminishing its ability to make its own contributions to forming the globa…
Kommentar
Why are the Disputes in the South China Sea So Intractable? A Historical Approach
Studies of Development
Norwegian Research on Development
In a rapidly globalising world, it is imperative that not only the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but other ministries as well, realise their responsibility for funding and utilising research on development in poor countries and regions, in all parts of the world. To convince the ministries that they can no longer have a research policy that is focused narrowly on Norway should be a strategic aim of the Research Council of Norway. The fun…
China and the South China Sea
Can Conflicts Be Solved by Shelving Disputes
The Longest Wars
In 1981-82, as a graduate student of history, Stein Tønnesson was lucky enough to be admitted to the Indochina files of the French archives, where secret cables and reports had been conserved since the outbreak of the first Indochinese war in late 1946. In the first part of this article he presents a new version of the process that led to the Franco-Vietnamese war, based on this previously unpublished material. New light is thrown on French actio…
The Longest Wars
In 1981-82, as a graduate student of history, Stein Tønnesson was lucky enough to be admitted to the Indochina files of the French archives, where secret cables and reports had been conserved since the outbreak of the first Indochinese war in late 1946. In the first part of this article he presents a new version of the process that led to the Franco-Vietnamese war, based on this previously unpublished material. New light is thrown on French actio…
Declenchement de la guerre d'Indochine. Les Vepres tonkinoises du 19 decembre
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The Vietnamese Revolution of 1945
Journal Article The Vietnamese Revolution of 1945: Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and de Gaulle in a World at War. By Stein Tønnesson. (Oslo: International Peace Research Institute and Newbury Park: SAGE, 1991. xiv + 458 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8039-8521-5.) Get access Marilyn B. Young Marilyn B. Young New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, P…
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La paix imposée par la Chine
Tønnesson Stein. La paix imposée par la Chine : l'accord franco-vietnamien du 6 mars 1946. In: Les Cahiers de l'Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, n°34, juin 1996. Les guerres d’Indochine de 1945 à 1975. pp. 35-56
Can Conflicts Be Solved by Shelving Disputes
China and the South China Sea
Vietnam ́s Objective in the South China Sea
Vietnam ́s Objective in the South China Sea
Vietnam's interests in the South China Sea may be divided into traditional national security interests, and interests linked to the broader category of human security. This article examines Vietnam's policy in the South China Sea and its use of the Law of the Sea. Vietnam has doggedly upheld its claim to the whole of the Paracel and Spratly areas (Hoang Sa and Truong Sa) and has spent considerable resources in modernizing its naval and air forces…
Norwegian Research on Development
In a rapidly globalising world, it is imperative that not only the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but other ministries as well, realise their responsibility for funding and utilising research on development in poor countries and regions, in all parts of the world. To convince the ministries that they can no longer have a research policy that is focused narrowly on Norway should be a strategic aim of the Research Council of Norway. The fun…
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Why are the Disputes in the South China Sea So Intractable? A Historical Approach
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