Working Papers

General Working Papers

Title: Turkey under the AKP: A critical evaluation from the perspective of Turkey's EU negotiations
Authors: Toni Alaranta
Date: September 2015

Title: The US Congress and decision-making on war: Debates on war powers in the separation of powers system
Authors: Anna Kronlund
Date: February 2015

Title: How to Reform the UN Climate Negotiations? Perspectives from the past, present and neighbour negotiations
Authors: Antto Vihma
Date: October 2014

Title: Linking Domestic and European Politics: Finnish MEPs and the Votes that Shaped the 7th European Parliament
Authors: Tuomas Iso-Markku
Date: September 2014

Title: Drama Power on the Rise? US soft power may increase as a function of Washington dysfunction
Authors: Mika Aaltola
Date: February 2014

Title: The Failure of the Security Paradigm in Syria: The human security perspective
Authors: Ari Kerkkänen
Date: January 2014

Title: Neither neutral nor non-aligned: The Europeanization of Finland's foreign and security policy
Authors: Teemu Palosaari
Date: December 2013

Title: Political change in Myanmar: Filtering the murky waters of "disciplined democracy"
Authors: Bart Gaens
Date: February 2013

Title: Building bridges or digging trenches? Civil society engagement after the Arab Spring
Authors: Timo Behr, Aaretti Siitonen
Date: January 2013

Title: Battle Lines in the Chinese Blogosphere: Keyword control as a tactic in managing mass incidents
Authors: Keegan Elmer
Date: October 2012

Title: Watching a dragon's egg hatch: The makings of a Sinocentric world?
Authors: Jyrki Kallio
Date: April 2012

Title: The beginning of the end? The future of international engagement in Afghanistan
Authors: imo Behr (ed), harly Salonius-Pasternak (ed)
Date: April 2012

Title: Humanizing security? The EU's responsibility to protect in the Libyan crisis
Authors: Marlene Gottwald
Date: April 2012

Title: Forever a Pilot? Assessing the policy dialogue and project-based cooperation in energy efficiency between the EU and Russia
Authors: Vadim Kononenko
Date: September 2011

Title: Humanitarian soldiers, colonialised Others and invisible enemies: Visual strategic communication narratives of the Afghan war
Authors: Noora Kotilainen
Date: August 2011

Title: Securing global commons: A small state perspective
Authors: Mika Aaltola, Joonas Sipilä, Valtteri Vuorisalo
Date: June 2011

Title: Linking an EU emission reduction target beyond 20 % to energy security in Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: Thomas Spencer, Anna Korppoo, Kai-Olaf Lang, Martin Kremer
Date: March 2011

Title: How to succeed with a thousand TWh reform?
Authors: Laura Solanko
Date: January 2011

Title: Can the EU budget support climate policy in Central and Eastern Europe?
Authors: Thomas Spencer, Anna Korppoo, Agata Hinc
Date: November 2010

Title: A normative EU policy towards China: Mission impossible?
Authors: Mikael Mattlin
Date: September 2010

Title: The political constraints on Russia's economic development: The visionary zeal of technological modernization and its critics
Authors: Katri Pynnöniemi
Date: June 2010

Title: Ghosts of crises past: Comparing Japanese policy effectiveness in the 1970s oil crises and contemporary climate change
Authors: Alexandru Luta
Date: June 2010

Title: Getting along with Gulliver: A Review of Finnish-German Relations
Authors: Glenn R. Gassen
Date: May 2010

Title: Raising the Stakes: The Need for a More Ambitious American Policy Towards Iran
Authors: Barbara Zanchetta
Date: April 2010

Title: Russian pledge vs. business-as-usual: Impelementing energy efficiency policies can curb carbon emissions
Authors: Aleksandra Novikova, Anna Korppoo, Maria Sharmina
Date: December 2009

Title: Controversies over missile defense in Europe
Authors: Raimo Väyrynen
Date: April 2009

Title: Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation in Global Governance
Authors: Mikael Wigell
Date: November 2008

Title: Assesment of the Finnish-Russian Border: The Case of Vaalimaa Border Crossing Point
Authors: Vadim Kononenko, Jussi Laine
Date: October 2008

Title: Sectarian Identities or Geopolitics? The Regional Shia-Sunni Divide in the Middle East
Authors: Mari Luomi
Date: January 2008

Title: Hegemonic Project or Survival Strategy? Language Rights in the Former Soviet Space
Authors: Kitty Lam
Date: January 2007

Title: Human rights cooperation between Russia and European intergovernmental organisations: a one-way transference of norms or a mutual process of adaptation?
Authors: Sinikukka Saari
Date: January 2006

Title: The Relevance of Norms and Values in the EU´s Russia Policy
Date: January 2005

Title: International transport corridors at the conjunction of geography and politics in Russia
Authors: Katri Pynnöniemi
Date: January 2005

Title: Russia and Europe: A Finnish View
Date: December 2004

Title: What Is New About Today's EU-Russia Border?
Authors: Vadim Kononenko
Date: September 2004

Title: Inter-organisational relations as a factor shaping the EU's external identity
Authors: Hanna Ojanen
Date: September 2004

Title: Human Rights and Post-Conflict Transitional Justice in East Timor
Authors: Taina Järvinen
Date: January 2004

Title: Western strategies and the prospect of reforms in the Middle East
Date: July 2003

Title: The emperor has some clothes on: fairy tales, scary tales and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Date: July 2003

Title: Dialogue of Civilisations? The Case of Nepad
Authors: Henri Vogt
Date: July 2003

Title: From Yugoslavia to Iraq: Russia's Foreign Policy and the Effects of Multipolarity
Authors: Vadim Kononenko
Date: June 2003

Title: A Hole in the Wall? Dimensionalism and the EU's "New Neighbourhood Policy"
Date: June 2003

Title: The Dialectics of Globalisation
Authors: Henri Vogt
Date: January 2003

Title: Russian Foreign Policy Think Tanks in 2002
Authors: Katri Pynnöniemi
Date: January 2003

Title: Maintaining the Balance of Power that favors Human Freedom: The Finnish Strategic Experience
Date: January 2003

Title: Strategic Culture and the English School: Conceptualising Strategic Adjustment in the Nordic Region
Date: April 2002

Title: Theories at a loss? EU-NATO fusion and the 'low-politicisation' of security and defence in European integration
Authors: Hanna Ojanen
Date: January 2002

Title: From a Recipient of Aid Towards an Independent Actor: The Impacts of EU Integration on Estonia's Civil Society
Date: January 2002

Title: EU Accession of Central and Eastern European Countries: Democracy and Integration as Conflicting Logics
Date: January 2002

Title: Telos or Brick Wall? British Nuclear Posture and European Defence Integration
Date: January 2002

Title: At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Modernisation: Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Linda Jakobson, Christer Pursiainen
Date: February 2001

Title: Two Reluctant Regionalizers? The European Union and Russia in Europe's North
Date: January 2001

Title: Soft security problems in Northwest Russia and their implications for the outside world. A framework for analysis and action
Authors: Pekka Haavisto, Nikita Lomagin, Christer Pursiainen
Date: January 2001

Title: A Security and Stability in Northern Europe -- A Threat Assesment
Authors: Jochen Prantl
Date: April 2000

Title: What kind of Democracy, Whose Integration? Construction of democracy and integration into the EU of Estonia
Date: January 2000

Title: The Evolution of Russian Grand Strategy -- Implications for Europe's North
Date: January 2000

Title: POST-NEUTRAL OR PRE-ALLIED? Finnish and Swedish Policies on the EU and NATO as Security Organisations
Authors: Tuomas Forsberg, Tapani Vaahtoranta
Date: January 2000

Title: A friend in need or a friend indeed: Finnish perceptions of Germany's role in the EU and Europe
Authors: Tuomas Forsberg
Date: January 2000

Title: The Tobin Tax: How to Make it Real. Towards a Socially Responsible and Democratic System of Global Governance
Authors: Heikki Patomäki
Date: January 1999

Title: The Korean Peninsula: Is Kim Dae-jung's Pursuit of a Korean Confederation Realistic?
Authors: Linda Jakobson
Date: January 1999

Title: The EU and the prospects of Common Defence
Authors: Hanna Ojanen
Date: January 1999

Title: Dealing with the Past: The Case of Estonia
Authors: Hanna Järä
Date: January 1999

Title: Crisis management the Finnish way - A state of the art report on practice and research
Authors: Raimo Lintonen
Date: January 1999

Title: Coming Home or Moving Home? "Westernising" Narratives in Finnish Foreign Policy and the Re-interpretation of Past Identities
Authors: Chris Browning
Date: January 1999

Title: Blazing New Trails: Villagers' Committee Elections in P. R. China
Authors: Linda Jakobson
Date: January 1999

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Reports

Title: Russia as an international actor: The view from Europe and the US
Authors: Sean P. Roberts
Date: June 2013

Title: Global networks of mediation: Prospects and avenues for Finland as a peacemaker
Authors: Touko Piiparinen (ed.), Ville Brummer (ed.)
Date: March 2012

Title: Governing the blue-green Baltic Sea: Societal challenges of marine eutrophication prevention
Authors: Mia Pihlajamäki, Nina Tynkkynen
Date: November 2011

Title: Whose money? The tug-of-war over Chinese state enterprise profits
Authors: Mikael Mattlin
Date: April 2011

Title: Tradition in Chinese politics: The Party-state's reinvention of the past and the critical response from public intellectuals
Authors: Jyrki Kallio
Date: February 2011

Title: A New World Economic Order: Overhauling the Global Economic Governance as a Result of the Financial Crisis, 2008–2009
Authors: Tapani Paavonen
Date: October 2010

Title: Why the EU fails: Learning from past experiences to succeed better next time
Authors: Toby Archer, Timo Behr, Tuulia Nieminen
Date: June 2010

Title: Nuclear-Free Security: Refocusing Nuclear Disarmament and the Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Authors: Tarja Cronberg
Date: April 2010

Title: The Great Regression? Financial Crisis in an Age of Global Interdependence
Authors: Kristian Kurki (ed.), Toby Archer, Vadim Kononenko, Matti Nojonen, Raimo Väyrynen
Date: December 2009

Title: Towards a new climate regime? Views of China, India, Japan, Russia and the United States in the road to Copenhagen
Authors: Anna Korppoo, Linda Jakobson, Johannes Urpelainen, Antto Vihma, Alex Luta
Date: May 2009

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