Dr. Stein Tønnesson is a Norwegian peace researcher and historian. His doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Oslo in 1991, was on the international history of the Vietnamese Revolution in 1945. His main areas of research are Vietnam, nation building in Southeast Asia, and the disputes in the South China Sea. In the years 2011-16 he leads a research program at the University of Uppsala on the 'East Asia Peace' since 1979, which includes a study of "The Vietnam Peace.' His most recent book about Vietnam was Vietnam 1946: How the War Began (University of California Press, 2010)   Telephone numbers: +47 22 54 77 31 (Oslo office) +47 48 10 12 92 (cell) + 46 (0)18 4716 108 (Uppsala office)   E-mail: stein@prio.no; stein.tonnesson@pcr.uu.se   Oslo address: PRIO, P.O. Box 9229 Grønland, N-0134 Oslo, Norway   Uppsala address: Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Box 514, SE 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden