Olav Riste
Norwegian historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Olav Riste was a Norwegian historian. He was born in Volda. He took his D.Phil. degree at the University of Oxford with a thesis on Norway's stance in the First World War entitled Norway's relations with belligerent powers in the First World War. A book based on the thesis called The Neutral Ally: Norway's relations with belligerent powers in the First World War was published in 1965. He served as director of the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies from 1980 to 1996, then research director until his retirement. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Bergen from 1980 and the University of Oslo from 1997. His research focus has been on international and national security, and military history. Riste edited the Scandinavian Journal of History from 1976 to 1981.
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- Norway's foreign relations: A history (2001) (75)
- The Norwegian Intelligence Service, 1945-1970 (1999) (15)
- Western security : the formative years : European and Atlantic Defence 1947-1953 (1985) (13)
- With an eye to history: The origins and development of ‘Stay-Behind’ in Norway (2007) (9)
- Norway and the Second World War (1966) (7)
- National Intelligence Systems: The Intelligence–Policy Maker Relationship and the Politicization of Intelligence (2009) (5)
- “Stay Behind”: A Clandestine Cold War Phenomenon (2014) (4)
- Intelligence in the cold war : organisation, role, international cooperation (2001) (4)
- Intelligence and the ‘Mindset’: The German invasion of Norway in 1940 (2007) (4)
- NATO, the Northern Flank, and the Neutrals (2001) (4)
- Introduction – Strategy of ‘Stay-Behind’ (2007) (4)
- War and peace in the political culture of Scandinavia in the 20th century (2003) (3)
- Norway 1940-45 : the resistance movement (1970) (3)
- Norvegr om 9. april 1940: Attersyn med ei historieforfalsking (2012) (2)
- Norway in exile 1940–45: The formation of an alliance relationship (1987) (2)
- Free ports in North Norway: A contribution to the study of FDR's wartime policy towards the USSR (1970) (2)
- "Preparing for a SOviet Occupation: The Strategy of Stay Behind" (2007) (2)
- NATO’s Northern Frontline in the 1980s (2004) (1)
- Nordic Union or Western Alliance? Scandinavia at the Crossroads 1948–1949 (1991) (1)
- Second to None: U.S. Intelligence Activities in Northern Europe 1943–1946 (2015) (1)
- Norway's relations with belligerent powers in the First World War (1963) (1)
- Were WMDs the Real Issue?: The International Community versus Iraq 1991-2003 (2005) (1)
- Book Review: Great Power Politics and Norwegian Foreign Policy (1973) (1)
- The Great Powers and the Northern Cap I940-45 (1972) (1)
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR (2004) (0)
- Britain and Norway: from War to Cold War, 1944–1951 (2012) (0)
- Reviews of Books (2002) (0)
- Introduction (2006) (0)
- Book Review : Nils Morten Udgaard: Great Power Politics and Norwegian Foreign Policy, Universi tetsforlaget, Oslo-Bergen-Tromsø, 1973. 319 pp (1973) (0)
- De Gaulle, alliances, and minor powers (1991) (0)
- Contributors (1992) (0)
- Tore Pryser?s Article ?From Petsamo to Venona?. Some Comments (1999) (0)
- Stormaktene, forspelet til 9. april, og May-Brith Ohman Nielsens versjon (2013) (0)
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