Mika Aaltola
Programme Director - the Global Security research programme
US domestic and foreign affairs, great power relations, Finnish foreign and security policy, global governance
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US domestic and foreign affairs, great power relations, Finnish foreign and security policy, global governance
Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies, especially Turkey’s relations with the EU, USA and Russia; the Kurdish question; Cyprus question; Middle East great power politics; political islam, political ideologies
Protection of national minorities and indigenous peoples, Arctic security, Russian foreign policy, Baltic-Russian relations
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)
climate security, environmental security, Western Balkan, post-conflict cooperation
On leave of absence
Editing, web editing, co-operation with freelance writers
Common security and defence policy, Finnish EU policy, German politics, EU institutions
EU’s foreign and security policy, global governance and the G20, EU’s Asia policy and Finland’s EU policy
Finnish foreign and security policy, nuclear weapons politics and nuclear disarmament, security studies (including resilience politics), practices of international politics.
Chinese political culture, Chinese foreign policy, regional issues in East Asia, China’s society, traditional Chinese thought
Arctic region, geo- and security politics in the Global Commons
Visiting Fellow at the Columbia University, New York City, until July 2019.
Contemporary nationalism(s) in Russia, Russian media and civil society, conceptual history
Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, political movements, populism, political rhetoric and communication
US defense and foreign policy, NATO, NATO-EU relations, US bilateral defense relations with Europe, arms control
Arctic region, European security and defence market, Security research, Security of supply
Russia-EU relations, Internal and foreign policy of Ukraine and Belarus
EU-MENA (Middle East and North Africa) relations; post-Arab Spring political transitions and armed conflicts in Libya and Syria; Levant: Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab conflicts; transnational and national Islamist movements: Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood.”
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, European security, transatlantic relations, Foreign Policy Analysis.
Editorship, marketing and development of the journal
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
China’s domestic and foreign policy, security politics in East Asia, authoritarian governance, great power relations, national identity and nationalism
United States foreign policy, United States Middle East policy, norms, values and power in foreign policy, changing constellations of global power, trust in international politics
Terrorism and other political violence, counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism in Europe, border security and Schengen Treaty. Spanish politics.
Executive Assistant Päivi Kulo +358 9 432 7703
European integration and the EU’s political institutions as well as the Common Foreign and Security Policy; the European security policy system; Finland’s foreign and security policy
Climate change politics, geoeconomics and strategy, multilateral negotiations, post-truth politics
Great power politics and geostrategy, geoeconomics, hybrid threats, Latin American politics and economy, EU-Latin America relations
