Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal (11 November) to their article "On a Rocky Island, Russia Seeks Military and Psychological Edge".Link to the......
A report from the TEPSA 2019 Finnish Pre-Presidency Conference co-organized by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and the Trans-European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) has been......
Mikael Wigell has been appointed director of the Global Security research programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. His appointment is for the next five-year term from 1 January......
A chapter on the European External Action Service (Europäischer Auswärtiger Dienst) authored by Senior Research Fellow Niklas Helwig was published in the book "Europa von A bis Z". The book is......
Research Fellow Tuomas Iso-Markku co-authored a peer-reviewed article entitled “Towards German leadership? Germany’s Evolving Role and the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy“. The article......
Senior Research Fellow Emma Hakala was interviewed by South Asia Fast Track on how India can use climate change in its foreign policy.Link to the interview....
Senior Research Fellow Elina Sinkkonen co-authored a peer-reviewed article entitled "Chinese Perceptions of Threats from the United States and Japan". The article was published in the Political......
Senior Research Fellow Niklas Helwig wrote together with Jana Puglierin an article entitled "Europe’s Geo-Economic Commission" published by the Berlin Policy Journal 7 October.The authors note that:......
Dr Mika Aaltola, who the Board appointed as the director of the Institute for a five-year term 2020-2024 on 11 September, will start in his new position on 7 October....
The FIIA Board has appointed Mika Aaltola as the director of FIIA for the next five-year term. MP Mikko Savola will chair FIIA Advisory Council. Research project on strategic deterrence concludes with......
Leo Michel's article "Finnish defence policy: One AmerLeo Michel's article "Finnish defence policy: One American's perspective" was published in the Maanpuolustus magazine 19 September.Michel was a......
FIIA Advisory Council, appointed by the Chancellery Commission of the Parliament, convened in its current composition for the first time on 19 September. The Council selected MP Mikko Savola to......
Programme Director Arkady Moshes commented on the meeting between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his counterpart Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with South China Morning Post......
Tampere University published Research Fellow Matti Pesu's doctoral thesis "Introducing Ideational Foreign Policy Analysis : Explorations on the Underlying Ideas of Finnish Foreign Policy"."This......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak's comments related to president Putin's visit to Helsinki in August were referred to in an article by News Now Finland 12.9.Salonius-Pasternak......
Juha Jokela will continue in his current position as programme director in FIIA’s European Union research programme as he has been appointed to the next five-year term from 1 January 2020 to 31......
The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) is seeking a Research Programme Director for the period of 1.1.2020-31.12.2024 to its Global Security Research Programme. Successful performance......
The Board of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs has appointed Dr Mika Aaltola as the Director of the institute for the next five-year term (1 January 2020 – 31 December 2024). The......
Senior Research Fellow Toni Alaranta's peer-reviewed book chapter entitled “Confrontational Civilizational Identity in the Making? The New Turkey and the West” was published in an edited volume by......
Programme Director Arkady Moshes wrote an article entitled "All Quiet in Russian-Belarusian Relations" that was published by PONARS Eurasia.Available here....
A peer-reviewed book chapter entitled "The West: Divided in Freedom and Fear?" by Research Fellow Ville Sinkkonen and Henri Vogt was published in an edited volume by Palgrave Macmillan.The book......
A chapter by Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Mühlberger entitled "Hezbollah's military engagement in Syria: from hubris to nemesis?" has been published in an edited volume on counter-terrorism. The......
A peer-reviewed article by Senior Research Fellow Toni Alaranta entitled “Russia and the Idea of Eurasia in Turkey's Strategic Culture Paradigms” was published in an edited book on Strategic......
An article authored by Senior Research Fellow Bart Gaens entitled "The EU-Asia Connectivity Strategy and Its Impact on Asia-Europe Relations" has been published in the latest issue of Panorama by the......
Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak discussed the future of EU-UK relations at SuomiAreena 16.7. Watch the panel discussion from this link....
Senior Research Fellow Ryhor Nizhnikau's article "Moldova Has a New Government, But its Political Crisis is Far from Over" was published 10.7. by the Globe Post.Link to the article....
A peer-reviewed article by Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi entitled "The Mediterranean Dimension of West-Russia Security Relations" was published in the edited volume Threats to Euro-Atlantic......
Senior Research Fellow Jussi Lassila's article entitled "The uncertain future of Russia’s domestic politics" was published 28.6. by the Atlantic Community.Link to the article....
Programme Director Mika Aaltola's recent FIIA Briefing Paper was referred to in an article on espionage and LinkedIn by Stratfor 2.7. Link to the article.Aaltola's publication "Geostrategically......
FIIA took part in organising Kultaranta Talks, TEPSA 2019 Finnish Pre-Presidency Conference and a MSC roundtable on Arctic security. FIIA also co-published a report on the 2009 Stoltenberg report with......
Research Fellow Ville Sinkkonen has co-authored a peer-reviewed article entitled: "Connected in freedom? Reconstructing a foundational value in EU and US foreign policy discourses". The article was......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow's Toni Alaranta's article "Can Erdoğan seduce Istanbul’s Kurds?" was published by Ahval (23.5).According to Alaranta, "...the continuing inability of Kurdish and......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi was interviewed to an article entitled "Salvini leads populist gang towards a European shake-up" by The Times (18.5).Link to the article, available for......
FIIA's Programme Director Arkady Moshes was quoted in an article by News Now Finland (17.5) on Russia's role in the Council of Europe.Article available from this link....
On May 7, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) organised in cooperation with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) a roundtable on Arctic Security in Helsinki. Topics such as......
FIIA's Director Teija Tiilikainen authored an analysis entitled "An EP-campaign of low profile in Finland" that was published by Clingendael. Tiilikainen notes that all the mainstream parties stress......
Programme Director Juha Jokela published an article "Representative Democracy in Finland: Functioning with Limited Politicisation of EU Affairs" in a report "Representative Democracy in the EU:......
Senior Research Fellow Mikael Wigell's article "Democracy is under attack: here is how to protect it" on countering hybrid interference has been published in the International Affairs Blog......
FIIA's Research Fellow Tuomas Iso-Markku has contributed to a joint report by the Nordic Foreign Policy Institutes: "10 Years on: Reassessing the Stoltenberg Report on Nordic Cooperation". The report......
Senior Research Fellow Harri Mikkola assessed Finland's Arctic Council chairmanship in a news article by News Now Finland (5.5). Mikkola noted for instance that "Trump’s negative stance towards......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi was quoted by CNN Business (2.5) in their article on natural gas and transatlantic trade relations. Link to the article....
Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak was interviewed by LRT.lt (24.4) on Finland's security strategies outside and alongside NATO.Link to the article....
Senior Research Fellow Emma Hakala has co-authored two peer-reviewed articles entitled: "A Lot of Talk, But Little Action—The Blind Spots of Nordic Environmental Security Policy" and "Northern......
FIIA's Programme Director Arkady Moshes was interviewed to an article by the Associated Press (22.4) on Ukraine's newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Moshes stated that Kremlin may try to......
The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) is now seeking researchers for the programme period of 1.1.2020-31.12.2022 to all research programmes.Applications are welcome from researchers in......
FIIA's Visiting Senior Fellow Leo Michel wrote on Finland's elections in an article published by the Atlantic Council (17.4) and concluded that among US allies and partners in Europe, Finland should......
Programme Director Mika Aaltola was quoted in a Washington Post news article (14.4) on the results of Finland's parliamentary elections. Aaltola noted among other issues that: "The political center......
Director of FIIA Teija Tiilikainen wrote an article (11.4) entitled "Finland's parliamentary elections will barely rock its EU Presidency" that was published by the Friends of Europe think-tank.......
Senior Research Fellow Toni Alaranta's analysis on Turkey's local elections entitled "Turkey’s local elections – new opposition and the AKP’s ambivalence to the popular will" was published in......
FIIA is taking part in new research projects on sanctions and space and has launched its own research project on terrorism. FIIA is in the process of recruiting a new director, programme directors and......
