J. Peter Burgess is a philosopher, political scientist, and cultural historian. He is currently Professor and Director of the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris; and Research Professor at the Centre for Law, Science, Technology, and Society Research Group (LSTS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is Editor of Security Dialogue, an international scholarly journal dedicated to innovation in security research and Series Editor of the Routledge/PRIO New Security Studies collection. His research and writing concern the meeting place between culture and politics – in particular in Europe, focusing on the theory and ethics of security and insecurity. He has contributed to research and foreign policy in Norway, France, and other European countries. In addition he has developed and directed a number of comprehensive collaborative research projects with Norwegian and European partners. He has published 11 books and over 60 articles in the fields of philosophy, political science, gender studies, cultural history, security studies and cultural theory.