Elina Sinkkonen

Elina Sinkkonen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and holds the Title of Docent in East Asian Studies, specifically East Asian Politics, at the University of Turku. Her research interests include great power relations, authoritarian regimes, regional security in East Asia, Chinese nationalism, public opinion issues in China and domestic-foreign policy nexus in IR theory. Sinkkonen’s ongoing research is linked with the Academy of Finland funded project ForAc (foreign acquisitions and political retaliation as threats to supply security in an era of strategic decoupling).

Sinkkonen’s work has been published in Political Psychology, Democratization, The China Quarterly, The Pacific Review, European Review of International Studies and European Foreign Affairs Review, among others. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her co-edited book on the new roles of women in Chinese society won the 2016 Kanava prize, which is given to the best Finnish book in the fields of politics, society, economics, history or culture.

Titel

Docent, Åbo universitet, 2021

Expertis

Kinas inrikes- och utrikespolitik, säkerhetspolitik i Östasien, auktoritära regimer, relationer mellan stormakter, nationell identitet och nationalism

Examen

DPhil, University of Oxford (UK), Department of Politics and International Relations, 2014
VTM, Helsingin yliopisto, Politiikan ja talouden tutkimuksen laitos, 2008

Pris

2016 Kanava-priset för faktaböcker

Språkkunskaper

finska, engelska, kinesiska (arbetsspråk), franska, svenska, tyska, spanska

Projekt

Europeisk strategisk autonomi i en geoekonomisk värld
Rysslands teknologipolitik och -kunnande i global teknologikapplöpning
Authoritarianism in Flux
Foreign acquisitions and political retaliation as threats to supply security in an era of strategic decoupling

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