Researcher - The Global Security Research Programme

bart.gaensfiia.fi
Telephone +358 9 432 7788

Academic degree
PhD, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Japan)

Expertise
Japanese studies (area studies)
Japan in the Asian regional context
Major power relations in East Asia
EU-Asia relations
Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)

Ongoing research projects
East Asian regionalism
Major power relations in East Asia

Selected publications
2011 The rise of interregionalisms: the case of the European Union’s relations with East Asia. The Ashgate Research Companion to Regionalisms. Farnham: Ashgate

2009 The Role of the European Union in Asia: China and India as Strategic Partners. Co-edited with Juha Jokela and Eija Limnell. Farnham: Ashgate

2008 Europe-Asia Interregional Relations – A Decade of ASEM. Editor. Aldershot: Ashgate

2006 Beyond ASEM VI: Lessons for the Actors. Multiregionalism and Multilateralism: Asia-Europe Relations in a Global Context. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Positions of trust
Adjunct Professor, Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki

Languages
English, Dutch, Japanese (working languages), German, French, Finnish (receptive skills)