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 "....
Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi's policy memo entitled "Italy’s Eastern Neighborhood Policy: Georgia in Context" has been published in "Georgian Institute of Politics Policy Memo" (7.11.2017).......
Yle News (5.11.) quoted Visiting Research Fellow Matti Pesu's interview in Helsingin Sanomat. Yle News article focused on a public opinion poll on NATO membership commissioned by Helsingin......
Ryhor Nizhnikau, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, has written a peer-reviewed article entitled "Guiding Voice to Exit: Elections of Sitz-Chairman in Moldova, Inc." that has been published in......
Senior Research Fellow Jussi Lassila's peer-reviewed article entitled "Aleksei Naval’nyi and Populist Re-ordering of Putin’s Stability" has been published in the book "Russian Modernisation:......
Visiting Senior Fellow Leo Michel he talked about consistencies in and possible changes to U.S. foreign policy in the era of Trump in JMC's vlog....
Marco Siddi, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, has written a peer-reviewed article entitled "EU-Russia Energy Relations: From a Liberal to a Realist Paradigm?". Article was published in Russian......
The Nordic foreign policy institutes strengthen cooperation, FIIA will publish a topical report on North Korea in October and FIIA’s relocation to Arkadiankatu will take place in November. ...
Visiting Senior Fellow Mark N. Katz was interviewed to an article entitled "U.S. Halts visas for Russians, deepening a diplomatic spat". Article was published by the Washington Post (21.8.). ...
Forbes interviewed Senior Research Fellow Bart Gaens on India-China relations (18.8). The title of the article was "Why India Takes A Backseat To China In Media Coverage". "[European media] should......
Visiting Senior Fellow Mark N. Katz's article entitled "Iran and Russia cooperate amid suspicion" has been published by The Arab Weekly (Issue 118, page 12, 6.8.2017)....
Visiting Senior Fellow Mark N. Katz has written an article entitled "Yemen’s President Invites Closer Ties with Russia". The article was published by The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington......
A peer-reviewed article "An evolving Other: German national identity and constructions of Russia" written by Senior Research Fellow Marco Siddi has been published in Politics (p. 1-17, Sage 2017.)....
Senior Research Fellow Toni Alaranta was interviewed by Yle News to an article that was titled "Finland to deport Turkish Kurds facing prison terms in home country" (27.6.)....
FIIA and the Center for Transatlantic Relations have launched a project on domestic factors influencing U.S. and European foreign policies. FIIA will move to new premises at Arkadiankatu 23 in......
