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......
A writing entitled "Japan’s restrained response to the Rohingya issue" written by Senior Research Fellow Bart Gaens has been published by Japan Today (13.1.)....
A peer-reviewed article "Kun pienvaltiorealismin hegemonia murtui: suomalaiset ulkopoliittiset koulukunnat kylmän sodan jälkeisen ajan alussa" (When the hegemony of "small state realism" was broken:......
Institute's Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi has written a peer-reviewed article entitled "The EU’s Botched Geopolitical Approach to External Energy Policy: The Case of the Southern Gas Corridor".......
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018 from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs!...
In its organising meeting The Board of the University of Helsinki elected Director Teija Tiilikainen as a vice chair for 2018-2021. President Tarja Halonen was elected as a chair of the Board. ...
FIIA has moved to Arkadiankatu 23 B and renewed both its logo and website. The FIIA Board has appointed the Scientific Advisory Council for 2018-2020. The third year of Nordic researcher exchange......
Third New Pact for Europe “Re-energising Europe: A package deal for the EU27” has been published. According to one of the key findings of the report, EU countries have varying geopolitical......
"Matti Pesu, a visiting research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, believes the candidates have relatively clear-cut stances on Nato. “Maybe the campaigns and debates have......
Senior Research Fellow Jussi Lassila has co-edited with Julie Fedor, Markku Kangaspuro and Tatiana Zhurzhenko a book entitled "War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus" (Palgrave Macmillan,......
Financial Times (6.12.) interviewed Senior Research Fellow Charly Salonius-Pasternak to an article that was entitled "A century on, Finland has learnt to tame the Russian bear"....
Senior Research Fellow Jussi Lassila has written a book review about a book "Europe faces Europe: Narratives from its Eastern Half "....
