Øystein Tunsjø

Professor - Head of IFS Asia - Project Manager for SPA II

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Øystein Tunsjø is Professor and Head of the Security in Asia Program. He specializes in US-China relations, geopolitics and how global power shifts shape Europe’s defence and security.

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Tunsjø holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, a cand.philol. from the University of Oslo, an MSc from the London School of Economics, 2002 and an MA from Griffith University, Australia, 2000. He has also been a visiting Fulbright scholar at Harvard and MIT.

Tunsjø is author of The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics: China, the United States and Geostructural Realism (Columbia University Press, 2018); Security and Profits in China’s Energy Policy: Hedging Against Risk (Columbia University Press, 2013) and US Taiwan Policy: Constructing the Triangle (London: Routledge, 2008). He has also co-edited four volumes and published several journal articles, such as 'The EU’s China Strategies: A Hedging Framework for Analysis' (forthcoming).

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A New US-China Bipolar System: What Role for Europe in Security and Defence?
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China and the United States in a New Bipolar System
Combining Polarity and Geopolitics: The Explanatory Power of Geostructural Realism
The New US–China Superpower Rivalry: Challenges for Asia and Europe
The Implications of Contemporary US-China 'Hypercompetition'
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia
U.S.-China Relations: From Unipolar Hedging Towards Bipolar Balancing
Global Power Shifts, Geography, and Maritime East Asia
China’s Rise: Towards a Division of Labor in Transatlantic Relations
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The Role of Energy in Chinese, Russian, and Central Asian Relations
Twenty-First Century Seapower: Cooperation and Conflict at Sea
US-China-EU Relations: Managing the New World Order
US–China Foreign Relations: Power Transition and its Implications for Europe and Asia
The Geopolitical Foundations for U.S. Strategy in a New U.S.–China Bipolar System
Kinas inntreden i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk: Geopolitikk, strategiske flanker, integrasjon og avskjerming
Sustaining Growth: Energy and Natural Resources
The East Asia-Europe Security Nexus
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics: China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism
Security and Profit in China's Energy Policy: Hedging Against Risk
US Taiwan Policy: Constructing the Triangle

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