In the December 2017 issue of the journal Contemporaty Southeast Asia Jim Rolfe reviews Stein Tønnesson's monograph Explaining the East Asian Peace (NIAS Press 2017): "Overall, this is an excellent tour d'horizon of the East Asian security environment, the factors that shape it and the scholarly arguments on how to improve it," Rolfe concludes: "I recommend this book not only for scholars of the region, but also for regional policymakers involved in security decisions."
Background paper by PRIO Director Stein Tønnesson, presented at an international symposium on the 'Examination of the Regions of Crisis from the Perspectives of Turkey, NATO and the European Union, and Their Impacts on the Security of Turkey', organized by the Turkish General Staff, Istanbul, 27-28 May.