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J. Peter Burgess is a philosopher, political scientist and cultural historian. He is currently Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Senior Researcher at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is Editor of Security Dialogue, an international scholarly journal dedicated to innovation in security research and Series Editor of the Routledge/PRIO New Security Studies collection.

On this webpage you will find information about his current activities as well as access to his public talks, publications and teaching materials.

You will also find his blog on European political culture

More details and contact information can be found here.


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  • Latest News

    SECILE Kick-off meeting (Legitimacy and effectiveness of legal measures against security threats)
    Durham, U.K., 21 May 2013

    Op-ed. Politics of regret gives no guarantees Aftenposten, 18 April, 2013 (in Norwegian)
    available here. Google translate version here

    Annual conference of the International Studies Association, San Francisco 2-5 April.

    Current information and programme available here.

    Awarded the Bergesen’s Prize for the Common Good. PRIO anouncement here.

    CATO project consortium meeting and General Assembly, Portsmouth, England, 14 March, 2013.

    Participating in a panel discussion on Horizon 2020 at SRE, Madrid, 13 March, 2013

    First meeting of the ADVISE project’s Advisory Board, Rome, 12 March, 2012.

    Meeting of the NATO Independent Scientific Evaluation Group, Brussels, 8 March, 2013.

    Interview on EKKO about cultural differences in security expectations, 1 March, 2013 (in Norwegian).

    EKKO interview

    CORE project stakeholder workhop, Guwahati, India, 26-27 February, 2013.

    European Commission, FP7 Space Research Programme ethics screening, Brussels, 11-14 February.

    ETTIS project stock-taking workshop, Stockholm, 5-6 February.

    Living in Surveillance Societies workshop on Time and security. Contribution: ‘Subjectivity, vulnerability and temporality: The accusation’. Lund, 31 January, 2013.

    Download speaking notes here

    Dagsnytt 18 appearance surrounding ‘The bureaucratization of terrorism’, 25 January, 2013 (in Norwegian).

    Dagsnytt 18 debate.

    Terrorismens byråkratisering (The Bureaucratization of Terrorism) in Morgenbladet, 25 January, 2013.
    Read here. (Google translation here).

    Qi2S project kick-off meeting, Tel Aviv, 23-24 January, 2013.

    Learning by doing – making interdisciplinarity work, speech, Brussels, 15 January, 2013.
    Conference webpage
    The conference proceedings can be downloaded here.

    Value, security and temporality in Nietzsche’s critique of modernity

    The sociological review, 60(4) 2012, 696-714.

    Access here.

    Modernité et obselence du concept de sécurité énergétique

    Cahiers de la sécurité, No. 21, 29-38

    Access here.


    Destination Europe, San Francisco, 6-7 December

    The societal impact of security research
    PRIO Brief 9/2012
    Download here

    Dialectical constitutionalism?
    in John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez (eds.), A Multitude of Constitutions? European Constitutional Pluralism in Question. Oslo: ARENA, 76-82.
    Download here

    Digital Enlightenment Forum, Luxembourg, 18-19 June

    Nordic states and societal security, Stavanger, Norway, 25 May

    CORE mid-term conference, Varanasi, India, 18-19 March

    CATO project meeting, Tel Aviv, 27-29 February

    European Commission: proposal screening, Brussels, 13-17 February

    PERSEUS project management meeting, Madrid, 1-2 February

    THREATAGAINSTEUROPE_WEBSITE

    A Threat against Europe? Security, Migration, Integration, with Serge Gutwirth (eds.) Brussels: VUB Press.

    Available here

    CORE project meeting, New Delhi
    (Cultures of Governance and Conflict Resolution in Europe and India)

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    Video lecture: Ten years of terror, University of Leeds, Histories of Violence project. Link here

    Ethical subject

    The Ethical Subject of Security: Geopolitical Rationalities and the Threat against Europe. London: Routledge.

    Available here

    Global Society

    The Human Security Tale of Two Europes, Geopoltics. 24(4) (with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh).

    Access here