Current projects at the Institute
Interorganisational relations, in particular EU-NATO-UN; security and defence policy; defence integration in the EU and Turkish membership

 

Academic degrees and positions
Doctor of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence
Adjunct Professor in International Politics, University of Helsinki

 

Professional record (partial)
Head of Research, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, 2010-2011
Programme Director, European Union research Programme, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 2008-2010
Professor, international politics, University of Helsinki, 2002
Visiting Researcher, WEU Institute for Security Studies, 1999

 

Recent publications
Together with Rosa Balfour: ’Does the European External Action Service Represent a Model for the Challenges of Global Diplomacy?’ IAI Working Papers 11/17. Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, June 2011.

Together with Hiski Haukkala: ‘The Europeanization of Finnish foreign policy: Pendulum swings in slow motion’, in Reuben Wong and Christopher Hill (eds.) National and European Foreign Policies: Towards Europeanization. Abingdon Oxon and New York: Routledge 2011. (Pp. 149-166.)

Tillsammans med Jan Joel Andersson, Martina Johannesson, Ingmar Oldberg, Erik Brattberg och Mark Rhinard, ’Vad krävs för att bli en vinnare? Om stormakter på tiotalet’. Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor 2011/6-7. Utrikespolitiska Institutet, Stockholm.

Together with Jan Joel Andersson, Erik Brattberg, Malin Häggqvist and Mark Rhinard, ‘The European Security Strategy: Reinvigorate, Revise or Reinvent?’ Occasional Papers No 7, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Stockholm, 10 June 2011.http://www.ui.se/upl/files/56515.pdf

’European Defence: Functional Transformation Under Way’, in Frédéric Merand, Martial Foucault, and Bastien Irondelle (eds.) European Security since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. University of Toronto Press 2011. Pp. 148-172.

’Analysen av interorganisationella relationer som ett sätt att förstå EU:s karaktär som aktör i säkerhetspolitik” i Claes G. Alvstam, Birgitta Jännebring och Daniel Naurin (red.), I Europamissionens tjänst. Vänbok till Rutger Lindahl. Centrum för Europaforskning, Göteborgs universitet, Skrift Nr 25, 2011. (Ss. 333-347.)

‘The EU as a security actor: in and with the UN and NATO’, in Dimitris Bourantonis and Spyros Blavoukos (eds.) The EU Presence in International Organisations. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon and New York: 2011. (Pp. 61-77.)

 

Positions of trust
Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), member of the board
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Member of the Editorial Committee, Cooperation and Conflict
Member of the scientific committee, Nordiques
Member of the scientific council, Samtidshistoriska institutet, Södertörns högskola (Stockholm)

 

Other
Evaluation for the Nordic Council of Ministers: "Assessment of the Nordic Council of Ministers' Policies for the Adjacent Areas: Small but Smart?", 2004

 

Finnish, English, Swedish, Italian, French; passive knowledge of German and Spanish, basics of Turkish