September 2014 3/2014

Adjunct Professor Teija Tiilikainen has been granted a second five-year term as the Director of the Institute. A research project on the Eurasian Economic Union predicts an uphill struggle for Eurasian integration.

Director appointment Visiting Senior The Board of The Finnish Institute of Fellow Robert International Affairs has nominated Nurick giving Adjunct Professor Teija Tiilikainen a presentation the Director of the Institute for the at a seminar next five-year term. Dr Tiilikainen on US-Russian relations and the has been the Director of the Institute EU in the light since 2010 and her second term will of the conflict begin in January 2015. in Ukraine on 11 Dr Tiilikainen has previously September (audio worked as the Director of the recording online). Network for European Studies at the University of and as further continue on the themes of try between member states continue the State Secretary in the Ministry the Summer Session. to hinder closer ties and the crisis in for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Her The Summer Session is part of the Ukraine has led to an increasingly research focuses on the EU’s political agenda of the CUSPP that aims to hostile international environment. system and external identity. provide a platform for the research Hence, the union faces an uphill on the US global role and US for- struggle to maintain momentum and CUSPP Summer Session eign and domestic policy in Finland deliver the results member states The Center for US Politics and Power and to strengthen CUSPP networks desire. (CUSPP) at FIIA organised the very internationally. The Center’s visiting first Summer Session on the topic scholar programme not only invites Staff news of Nordic-Baltic Security and US scholars from the US to contribute Dr Mari Neuvonen has joined Role in the Region after Ukraine in to the research focuses of the Center the Research Helsinki and Tallinn in August, 2014. but also provides opportunities for Programme for a year. She comes The aim of the Summer Session was its own researchers to visit the US. from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to provide a platform to discuss the of Finland in the framework of the topic from different perspectives and Eurasian Union project exchange programme between the it gathered researchers and experts The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Ministry and the Institute. She holds from Europe and the US. The themes and Russia Research Programme has a PhD from the University of Bristol included in the programme were US conducted a research project on the and her areas of expertise include global rebalancing and its impact on prospects of Eurasian integration. the EU’s Middle East policy, Israel- the region, transatlantic relations The project concluded that the Palestine relations and the Common and US politics, dependencies and Eurasian Economic Union has, on Foreign and Security Policy of the cooperation (military and trade), paper, the potential to transform EU. regional military cooperation, NATO, economic relations in the region cyber and flows, the Arctic and the and to offer an alternative to the EU The Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs scenarios of insecurity. The forth- in the post-Soviet space. However, The issue 3/2014 of the Journal was coming FIIA report on the issue will weak institutions and large asymme- published in mid-September with The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is an independent research institute that produces high level research to support political decision-making and public debate both nationally and internationally

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