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......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Toni Alaranta commented the local elections in Turkey and the dispute related to the Hagia Sophia in an article by Asia Times (1.4) Link to the article....
Programme Director Arkady Moshes commented on the Ukrainian presidential elections to Kommersant (1.4). Forbes referred to Moshes' comments in their article "Ukraine's President Poroshenko Praises......
The Economist referred to Bruno Tertrais's FIIA Working Paper in an article entitled "What would happen if America left Europe to fend for itself?" on 14 March....
The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) is now seeking two Research Programme Directors for the period of 1.1.2020-31.12.2024. These positions are located in the European Union......
Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi has written a book review of the book "Russian–European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region. Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe" by Vsevolod......
Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi has co-authored a peer-reviewed article entitled "The national agents of transnational memory and their limits: the case of the Museum of the Second World War in......
Senior Research Fellow Mikael Wigell's peer-reviewed article contributing to the debate on hybrid threats has been published as lead article in the March issue of International Affairs. The article......
A peer-reviewed article authored by Senior Research Fellow Elina Sinkkonen has been published in the Pacific Review (18.2.2019).The article analyses the evolution of Sino-Japanese rivalry in the......
Senior Research Fellows Wolfgang Mühlberger and Marco Siddi authored a Euromesco Policy brief entitled "In from the Cold: Russia’s Agenda in the Middle East and Implications for the EU",......
Applications for the office of Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs must be submitted by 4 March. The statute governing this appointment requires the successful applicant to have......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Mikael Wigell was interviewed by McClatchy DC (1.2) to an article on recent developments regarding Russia's role in the Venezuela crisis.On the issue of Russian desire......
FIIA's Senior Research Fellow Mikael Wigell commented on the relationship between Russia and Venezuela in an interview for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (24.1). On a question regarding direct......
