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Marek Thee: My Story

A Journey through the 20th Century

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  1. Marek Thee

    1. (1918–1999), Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway

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  2. Nils Petter Gleditsch

    1. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway

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  3. Stein Tønnesson

    1. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway

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  4. Marta Bivand Erdal

    1. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway

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  • Marek Thee's life mirrors key events in international relations in the twentieth century
  • Marek Thee is a stellar example of a fighter with a typewriter
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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice (BRIEFSPIONEER, volume 32)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. An International Scholar with a Dramatic Life

    • Marta Bivand Erdal, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Stein Tønnesson
    Pages 1-7Open Access
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  3. My Story. A Journey Through the 20th Century

    • Marek Thee
    Pages 9-91Open Access
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  4. Marek Thee: His Published Work

    • Marta Bivand Erdal, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Stein Tønnesson
    Pages 93-105Open Access
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  5. Back Matter

    Pages 107-110
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About this book

Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the International Control Commission in Indochina in the late 1950s. In 1968 he lost his job and his Polish citizenship in a nationalistic and antisemitic campaign. He was able to move to Norway where he worked for twenty years at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), editing an international quarterly journal, Bulletin of Peace Proposals and doing research on the arms race. In retirement, he continued his research and writing at the Norwegian Human Rights Institute. The book vividly relates the drama of his life in Poland, Palestine, Indochina, and Norway.

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  • (1918–1999), Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway

    Marek Thee

  • Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway

    Nils Petter Gleditsch, Stein Tønnesson, Marta Bivand Erdal

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