Category: Finland

Under the leadership of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan has embarked on a moderate reform programme that aims to achieve socio-economic […]

China and Russia are jointly advancing their shared interests in the international arena and are building up cooperation in the […]

Speculation is rife that China could take advantage of the potential confusion during the US presidential election and invade Taiwan. […]

The European Union is renewing its Concept on Strengthening EU Mediation and Dialogue Capacities after more than a decade. The […]

A key issue dominating Iran’s foreign policy agenda is the future of the Iran nuclear deal with regard to the […]

As the EU is looking to strengthen its relations with Africa, the Sahel is set to be among its priorities. […]

The US president has considerable power over the country’s foreign policy. The different worldviews espoused by President Trump and presidential […]

This study analyzes Turkish foreign policy narratives generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, and their intellectual and political context provided by […]

The UN has achieved its aims with variable results. Thus far, the world has been spared another devastating world war, […]

Speculation is rife that China could take advantage of the potential confusion during the US presidential election and invade Taiwan. […]

Finland is preparing a Strategic Programme for the Circular Economy this autumn. It offers an opportunity to strengthen policy coherence […]

Non-compliance and disputes between Russia and the US resulted in the US exiting the Open Skies Treaty. If Russia withdraws […]

The idea of a ‘Middle East Helsinki Process’ has been raised as a potential collective security mechanism to help avoid […]

Alexander Lukashenko’s “victory” in the election cannot bridge the gap between the president and the modern part of Belarusian society. […]

The United States and China are posited to be at the epicenter of an emerging and – by most accounts […]

Terrorism is one of the most significant security threats in Europe. As it is transnational in character, countering it requires […]

The European Union increasingly uses sanctions in order to respond to breaches of international norms and adverse security developments in […]

COVID19 has revealed the risks of Europe’s global dependencies in strategic sectors and intensified the debate on European strategic autonomy. […]

China has garnered international goodwill by aiding countries hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. China is in a position to […]

In Iran, the response to the coronavirus pandemic would require cooperation but is marred by the politicization of the crisis. […]

In Russia, the confirmed COVID-19 infections have been suspiciously few. The official numbers do not reflect reality as there has […]

COVID-19 highlights the relevance of sharing information at a time of crisis. The revision of International Health Regulations in 2005 […]

Since late 2019, the world has sought – frantically at times – to appropriate policies for responding to the coronavirus […]

The killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi last year put the jihadist nexus in North-Western Syria back in the spotlight. The […]

In March 2019, Kazakhstan’s authoritarian leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, stepped down after three decades of rule and yielded power to his […]

After a period of turbulence in 2014–2015 followed by Russia’s actions in Ukraine, tense stability has emerged in the Baltic […]

The EU needs to assume more responsibility in defending its interests and security. Brexit will constitute an additional challenge for […]

Jyrki Kallio & Julie Chen, Taiwan’s 2020 election and its implications: Dark clouds looming for already strained cross-strait relations, FIIA […]

Mariette Hägglund, The protests in Iraq: Corruption and foreign interference in the firing line, FIIA Comment 12/2019 Recent large-scale protests […]

Arkady Moshes, The Normandy Summit on Ukraine: no winners, no losers, to be continued, FIIA Comment 12/2019 The French-German-Russian-Ukrainian top-level […]

Toni Alaranta, Turkey’s invasion of Syria was predictable: A violent prelude to making a major deal to end the Syrian […]

Deborah McCarthy, The militarization of US foreign policy: Engagement with Europe increasingly about defense, FIIA Comment 11/2019  The US Department […]

Niklas Helwig, The new EU leadership: The von der Leyen Commission focuses on Europe’s geo-economic power, FIIA Briefing Paper 11/2019 […]

Marco Siddi & Marcin Kaczmarski, Russia and China in the Middle East: Playing their best cards, FIIA Briefing Paper 11/2019 […]

Toni Alaranta, Turkey’s Republican People’s Party and the EU: Preconditions for EU-Turkey relations in the secular-nationalist vision, FIIA Working Paper […]