Emma Hakala

Dr. Emma Hakala is a Leading Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Her research focuses on environmental security and the geopolitics of climate change, such as the role of international actors in building climate security practices. She leads the project “Climate change and Finland’s security of supply” and a part on conflict analysis in the project “Water Cooperation and Peace – Finnish Water Way”, which FIIA implements as a partner of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE).

Hakala gained her D.Soc.Sci degree in political history at the University of Helsinki in 2019. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the securitisation of the environment and the role of international organisations in post-conflict Western Balkans. Hakala has previously obtained a Master’s degree in political history at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Hakala is also currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project “Toxic Crimes: Legal Activism against Wartime Environmental Destruction” at the University of Helsinki and a member of the multidisciplinary BIOS Research Unit.

Expertise

Climate security, environmental security, Western Balkan, post-conflict cooperation

Degrees

Doctor of Social Sciences (Political history), University of Helsinki, 2018
M. Soc. Sci., B. Sc.

Language skills

Finnish, English, Swedish (working languages), French, German, Serbian (receptive skills)

Projects

The Politics of Climate Change
Finland and Climate Security in an Interdependent World
Nordic Security of Supply in the Age of Disruption
Water Cooperation and Peace – Finnish Water Way
Global Politics of the Energy Transition
Climate change and Finland’s security of supply

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