Invitations, speaking and interview requests: Mona Kokko, mona.kokko@fiia.fi, Tel. +358 9 432 7726
US domestic and foreign affairs, great power relations, Finnish foreign and security policy, global governance
Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies, in particular relations with the EU, the US and Russia; the Kurds in international relations; the Middle East in world politics; Europe-Middle East relations; Cyprus question; strategic cultures; political Islam
Gulf Countries/Arabian Peninsula, EU-Gulf Relations, Gulf Economic Policy and Diversification, Regulatory Governance
Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, non-traditional security, political risk, politics in East Asia, China’s political economy, foreign policy and trade relations
The political economy of climate policy, energy resource projects, including low-carbon and rare earth element extraction, and geoeconomics, specifically trade, regulation, and supply chain dependencies.
International law, especially responsibility issues; human rights; global governance
Japanese studies (area studies), Japan in the Asian regional context, major power relations in East Asia, EU-Asia relations, Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), Asia-Europe connectivity
Climate security, environmental security, Western Balkan, post-conflict cooperation
On leave of absence
EU border management, free movement, European security, European integration
EU foreign policy and defence cooperation, German foreign and defence policy, EU-US relations.
Data power politics, technological resilience, geoeconomics, digital security architecture, cyber warfare
On leave of absence
Conflicts and political violence, Finnish foreign and security policy, Iran’s domestic and foreign policy, Iraq’s domestic and foreign policy
Common security and defence policy, Finnish EU policy, German politics, EU institutions
EU’s foreign and security policy, the UK withdrawal from the EU (Brexit), EU in global and regional governance, Finland’s EU policy
Chinese political culture, Chinese foreign policy, regional issues in East Asia, China’s society, traditional Chinese thought
EU’s foreign and security policy, crisis management operations and peacebuilding, the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood policies and enlargement
Crisis, conflict and war (visual and media) representations, global mobility, global security, humanitarianism, violence, militarism, media studies, feminist research, critical militarism research
United States foreign and domestic politics, United States and the United Nations (UN), the legitimacy of the UN
Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, political movements, populism, political rhetoric and communication
Russia’s foreign and security policy, Russian political strategy, great power politics
US domestic and foreign policy, Donald Trump and his supporters
China’s foreign policy and politics, global economy, Taiwan, international relations simulations
Transatlantic relations; US grand strategy; NATO; transformation of war; security in northern and eastern Europe
US defense and foreign policy, NATO, NATO-EU relations, US bilateral defense relations with Europe, arms control
Arctic region; societal resilience; security of supply; hybrid threats; European security and defence market; Finnish foreign, security and defence policy
Russia-EU relations, Internal and foreign policy of Ukraine and Belarus
Conflicts and political violence, EU’s common foreign and security policy, international conflict prevention and crisis management efforts, Sub-Saharan Africa
EU institutional reform, supranational democracy, EU elections, European legal community, European public sphere, integration narratives, German politics
The EU’s Eastern neighbourhood, Russian policy in the post-soviet space, domestic and foreign policies of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine
Finnish foreign, security and defence policy, Euro-Atlantic security, Northern European security, Foreign Policy Analysis
Afghanistan, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Horn of Africa, terrorism, armed non-state actors, fragile states, peace processes and reconstruction, development policy and foresight
Russian foreign policy; EU’s and Finland’s policy towards Russia; post-Soviet conflicts, EU’s eastern partnership policy, foresight
Nordic politics, Populism, Radical right-wing parties, Changing political cleavages in Western democracies, Trends in EU integration
United States foreign and domestic policy, Finnish security and defence policy (including peace-keeping and crisis management)
EU-Russia relations, EU energy policy, politics of memory and identity in Europe, European security, Italy’s role in the European Union
Domestic and foreign policy of Central Asian states, Belarus and Russia; authoritarian governance and social movements in the post-Soviet space
China’s domestic and foreign policy, security politics in East Asia, authoritarian governance, great power relations, national identity and nationalism
US foreign policy, norms and values in foreign policy, great-power politics, trust in international politics
The Israel-Palestine conflict, EU and US Middle East policy, religion in politics, Fundamentalism, Christian Zionism, peace processes and conflict resolution
Finnish foreign and security policy, NATO, Nordic security and defence co-operation, French foreign and security policy, politics and society
On leave of absence
Terrorism and other political violence, counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism in Europe, border security and Schengen Treaty. Spanish politics.
Brazilian environmental policy and external relations; concepts of world order; northern and southern transatlantic relations; U.S. foreign and trade policy.
Finnish foreign, security and defence policy, European security, transatlantic relations
Climate politics, multilateral negotiations, populism, media, political theory
International climate policy; Climate finance; Transparency in multilateral climate governance; Climate change adaptation
International economic relations, geoeconomics and sanctions, hybrid threats and hybrid warfare, Chinese and Russian grand strategies, EU’s external economic relations
Authoritarian states, mass protests and public opinion
Northern European security, German foreign and security policy, Finnish foreign and security policy
