Liisa Kauppila

Liisa Kauppila is a Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and a visiting researcher in the Arctic International Relations Project at the University of Lapland Arctic Centre. She is finalizing her PhD at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku. Kauppila’s expertise lies in China’s global economics and action especially in the Nordics and the Arctic, in addition to the consequences of China’s economic policy on Finland’s security of supply. Her expertise also includes futurological and forecast methods as well as the methodological synthesis of futurology and art.

Currently, the focus of Kauppila’s research is great power politics via technology standards and its impact on Finland, the utilization of dystopia and comics in inclusive futurology, and China’s economic policy in the Arctic. The first and the second of the themes are related to the externally funded research project StandardEdge.

Kauppila’s peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and reports have been published by the Polar Journal, Arctic Yearbook, and publication series of various institutions for example. She has also been responsible for executing five extensive stakeholder training courses (Delfoi) in academic, business, and governmental projects. The latest projects revolve around Finnish and Swedish pre-emptive action in a world of great power politics and advancing climate responsibility globally.

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