Olle Törnquist

Olle Törnquist is a Swedish global historian and Professor Emeritus of Politics and Development at the University of Oslo, Norway; earlier at Uppsala University. He has written widely on radical politics, development and democratisation. His main empirical focus since the 1970s has been Indonesia, India and the Philippines, with Scandinavia and South Africa and Brazil as reference cases. The results were recently summarised in In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South – Implications for the North (Zed-Bloomsbury). For other books and texts, see https://olle-tornquist.com/.