J. Peter Burgess

Architectural details: an ornate iron clock, a steel girder marked 12, Art Nouveau ironwork, a grand iron hall, a cobblestone plaza, and a modernist ramp

Tag: Norway

  • What is societal security? After 22/7 (in Norwegian)

    Rapporten til 22. julikommisjonen har blitt rettmessig roset som et omfattende faktagrunnlag som danner utgangspunktet for reform og bedring. Men det er påfallende at kommisjonens rapport og debatten omkring den forstår samfunnets sikkerhet som en teknisk utfordring. Rapportens kritikk handler om veisperringer, radiosamband, IKT systemer, helikopter og båter, og politiets prosedyrer. Svikt i sikkerhet skyldes,… Read more →

  • Extremism and liberalism

    Liberalism and extremism: Societal preparedness against extreme individuals Talk held for the Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons Headquarters of the United Nations, 25 October 2011 Download Read more →

  • A necessary naïveté (in Norwegian)

    From Morgenbladet 5 August 2011 Den tidligere lederen til det franske høyreradikale partiet Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen skal ha sagt denne uken at én årsak til terrorangrepet 22. juli var at nordmenn har vært ”naive” om terrortruslene de står overfor. (Aftenposten 31.07). Med dette mener han trolig at nordmenn har vist et uansvarlig mangel… Read more →

  • Norway and Article V

    Norway, Article V and the New Strategic Concept Centre for International Relations, Warsaw, Poland, Seminar on Changing NATO and the Central and East European Agenda, 8 March. Download Read more →

  • Societal security

    Societal Security: Definitions and scope for the  Norwegian setting PRIO Policy Brief 2/2007 (with Naima Mouhleb) Download here Read more →

  • European without EU

    Norge: Europeisk uten EU (Norway: European without EU) Aftenposten, 16 April, 2007 Download here Read more →

  • Nation, modernity, written culture

    (Editor) Nation, Modernity, Written Culture (with Odd Monsson), Kristiansand, Norwegian Academic Press. Read more →

  • Ivar Aasen Logic of Nation

    Ivar Aasen’s Logic of Nation. Toward a Philosophy of Culture Volda, Høgskulen i Volda. Read more →

  • Ambivalent Patriotism Nations and Nationalism 10(4) 2004

    The Ambivalence of the National: Jakob Aall and Dano-Norwegian Identity, Nations and Nationalism 10(4): 619-637. Download Read more →

  • Den opplyste romantikken og den romantiske opplysningen (chapter)

    Den opplyste romantikken og den romantiske opplysningen (Enlightened Romanticism and Romantic Enlightenment), in J. Peter Burgess (red.), Den norske pastorale opplysningen. Nye perspektiver på norsk historiografi (The Norwegian Pastoral Enlightenment: New Perspectives on Norwegian Historiography), Oslo, Abstrakt Forlag. Download Read more →