Northern Light

Nils-Johan Jørgensen was educated at the universities of Oslo and Oxford (Norway Scholar at Wadham) and was Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). As a Norwegian career diplomat he served in Brussels, Copenhagen, Harare, Tokyo, Bonn and Dar es Salaam, retiring in 2001. He is the author of a number of books and articles on European integration, international development, Southern Africa and Germany and Japan. Most recently, he published An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy (2015). Ambassador Nils-Johan Jørgensen was educated at the universities of Oslo and Oxford (Norway Scholar at Wadham) and was Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). As a Norwegian career diplomat he served in Brussels, Copenhagen, Harare, Tokyo, Bonn and Dar es Salaam. He retired in 2001. He is the author of books and articles on European integration, international development, Southern Africa and Germany and Japan, including Norge mot Europa? (Norway towards/against Europe?), Copenhagen, 1981, Nytt liv bak taken (A new life behind the haze in Zimbabwe), Oslo, 1989, and Japan og Tyskland. Gjenvinning og makt (Japan and Germany. Restoration and Power), Oslo, 1997. He is also author of Culture and Power in Germany and Japan: The Spirit of Renewal, Global Oriental, 2006.

• Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: Look to Norway, Chapter 2: Suddenly, the Country was Lost, Chapter 3: But Slowly, the Country was Ours Again, Chapter 4: Independence and Neutrality, Chapter 5: The German Occupation, Chapter 6: Political Parties, Chapter 7: Before and After Ibsen, Chapter 8: The Other Arts, Chapter 9: The Nobel Peace Prize, Chapter 10: Defence in Nato, Chapter 11: The Eternal Half European, Chapter 12: The Sea, Chapter 13: Bordering the Bear, Chapter 14: Self Image and Reality, Bibliography, Index