FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Mühlberger was interviewed to op-ed published in Asia Times (13.9.). Op-ed's title was "After Syria’s partition, will Xinjiang be destabilized?"....
Following Susanna Huovinen's departure from the Parliament, the FIIA Advisory Council elected Maarit Feldt-Ranta as the new chair in its meeting on 5 September....
News Now Finland (29.8.) interviewed Research Fellow Tuomas Iso-Markku to article entitled "Bonjour: Emmanuel Macron Arrives In Finland Looking For New Friends In The North". “I guess for France,......
A peer-reviewed book chapter entitled "Development Lending as Financial Statecraft? A Comparative Exploration of the Practices of China and Japan" written by Mikael Mattlin and FIIA's Senior Research......
A blog posting entitled "A lack of critical public debate: Questioning the EU’s support for the Southern Gas Corridor" written by FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi has been published in LSE......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Ryhor Nizhnikau was interviewed to article "President Niinistö Heads To Sochi For Talks With Putin" by News Now Finland (22.8.). “One thing I can say is that we can......
Senior Visiting Fellow Mark N. Katz discusses the new Caspian Accord in his article published by Lobe Log on 15 August....
Senior Research Fellow Elina Sinkkonen commented on Sino-Russian cooperation in security issues in South China Morning Post on 9 August....
Director Teija Tiilikainen commented on a recent poll on Finnish views on NATO in a Yle News article on 13 August....
A peer-reviewed book chapter entitled "Contemporary Arctic Meets World Politics: Rethinking Arctic Exceptionalism in the Age of Uncertainty" written by Senior Research Fellows Juha Käpylä and Harri......
New book entitled "Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century: The Revival of Economic Statecraft" edited by FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Mikael Wigell, Sören Scholvin and FIIA's......
New book entitled "EU Induced Institutional Change in Post-Soviet Space: Promoting Reforms in Moldova and Ukraine" written by Senior Research Fellow Ryhor Nizhnikau has been published by Routledge......
Director Teija Tiilikainen was interviewed by Helsingin Sanomat on a possible meeting between the US and Russian presidents in Helsinki and the interview was quoted by Yle News (27.6.). ""The......
FIIA's Programme Director Juha Jokela has co-written with Henrik Larsen, University of Copenhagen and Göran von Sydow, Swedish Institute for European Studies, Stockholm, a book chapter entitled......
FIIA took part in organising Kultaranta Talks and concluded a research project on hybrid influencing in democracies. FIIA researchers published nine peer-reviewed articles by the end of May in 2018....
Research Fellow Matti Pesu was quoted in article on the 6th annual Kultaranta talks published by Yle News (17.6.). ...
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak was interviewed by France 2 (France Télévisions, 14.6.2018). Interview focused on conscription in Finland. Charly Salonius-Pasternak at 2:00.......
An independent investigation team has completed a safety investigation of the stabbings that took place in Turku on 18 August 2017. In its report, the investigation team gives nine safety......
Judy Dempsey interviewed Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi to article "Judy Asks: Should Germany Dump Nord Stream 2? Can it?". Article was published in Judy Dempsey's Strategic Europe -blog (14.6.......
Programme Director Mika Aaltola was interviewed by Yle News (7.6.) to article "US and Russian top military brass to meet in Helsinki"...
Senior Research Fellow Teemu Tammikko has published a peer-reviewed article "The Threat of Returning Foreign Fighters: Finnish State Responses to the Volunteers in the Spanish and Syria-Iraq Civil......
Yle News (8.5.) interviewed Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak to article "Finland, Sweden and US deepen defence cooperation in Washington"....
Senior Research Fellow Marcin Kaczmarski has written a book review entitled "Between an axis of convenience and a return to the past". The review focuses on the following two books: A Wary Embrace:......
Article entitled "The Arctic route for Russian LNG opens" written by Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi has been published in World Energy Magazine (38, 80-83)....
A peer-reviewed book chapter "‘First as Tragedy…’: Mistakes, Blaming and Learning at the Copenhagen Climate Conference" written by Senior Research Fellow Antto Vihma has been published in......
South China Morning Post (20.4.) interviewed Senior Research Fellow Jyrki Kallio to article "EU presents (nearly) united front against China’s ‘unfair’ Belt and Road Initiative". ...
A chapter entitled "Finland Focuses on Its Northern Partners as Brexit Takes the UK out of ‘Northern Lights’ Grouping" written by Programme Director Juha Jokela has been published in SCER Report......
An article entitled "How the evolving international environment affects EU member states’ positions toward Russia" written by Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi has been published in LSE EUROPP......
Article "Russian infowar targets transatlantic bonds" written by Visiting Senior Fellow Sofie Eisentraut and Bret Schafer has been published by The Cipher Brief (30 March 2018)....
FIIA has launched four new Government-funded research projects. In late March FIIA organized jointly with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland a two-day brainstorming meeting on EU Defence....
Finland’s political leaders will be watching carefully today, to see if other EU countries announce sanctions against Russia, over the nerve agent attack in England earlier this month (News Now......
News Now Finland (14.3.) interviewed Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak to article "Finland Reacts To Escalating UK – Russia Tensions"....
STT (13.3.) interviewed Programme Director Mika Aaltola, interview focused on the dismissal of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Aaltola's interview was quoted by Yle News (13.3.). ...
Visiting Fellow Sophie Eisentraut has co-written with Stephanie De Leon an article entitled "Propaganda and Disinformation in the Western Balkans: How the EU Can Counter Russia’s Information War".......
“In terms of foreign policy, this is probably the most inactive government we’ve had in years and it’s partly due to Sipilä himself. He’s an engineer by background so it’s not that he......
Director Teija Tiilikainen commented on the Munich Security Conference to Helsingin Sanomat (19.2). "There is tremendous potential for conflict in world politics at the moment, and much......
Second Line of Defense (14.2.) interviewed Matti Pesu to "Shaping a way ahead for the defense of Finland: the perspective of a Finnish research analyst"....
Policy Memo "What Will Replace Russia’s Dwindling Trump-Euphoria? Russian Foreign Policy Viewpoints Today" written by Programme Director Arkady Moshes has been published by PONARS Eurasia (Policy......
Yle News (7.2.) interviewed Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak to an article that was entitled "US State Dept OKs possible missile sale to Finland in deal valued at 580m euros". ...
Article entitled "A "Eurasian Turn" in Turkish Foreign Policy? Not Likely" written by Senior Research Fellow Toni Alaranta has been published in The Turkey Analyst (31 January 2018)....
The School of Management (University of Tampere) has nominated Institute's Senior Research Fellow Mikael Wigell as a Docent in International Political Economy....
Institute's Visiting Research Fellow Matti Pesu has written a blog posting entitled "What Sauli Niinistö’s re-election means for Finnish foreign policy" to EUROPP - European Politics and Policy......
Bloomberg (26.1.) interviewed Director Teija Tiilikainen to article entitled "Finland’s President Eyes Easy Re-Election". ...
A book entitled "Domestic Determinants of Foreign Policy in the European Union and the United States" edited by Daniel S. Hamilton and FIIA's Director Teija Tiilikainen has been published. Book also......
The Telegraph (24.1.) interviewed Programme Director Juha Jokela, interview focused on the security relations with the UK after Brexit. "As Finland is not a member of NATO, bilateral defence......
Foreign Policy (18.1.) interviewed Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak to article entitled "Inside a European Center to Combat Russia’s Hybrid Warfare". The article focused on the......
Senior Research Fellow Jussi Lassila was interviewed by Yle Novosti (24.1.), interview focused on Finnish presidential elections (in Russian)....
Research Fellow Ville Sinkkonen has written book chapter entitled "Understanding the trust–distrust nexus between the United States and Egypt" and Visiting Research Fellow Matti Pesu has written,......
Senior Research Fellow Elina Sinkkonen has written a book review of the book "The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History", by Timothy Cheek. The review has been published online by The English......
Senior Research Fellow Bart Gaens has co-edited with Gauri Khandekar a book entitled "Japan’s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships". The book includes a peer-reviewed chapter entitled......
