Projects - FIIA - Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Finland as a NATO member – the potential of deepening bilateral and minilateral defence cooperation within a multilateral framework

The research project “Finland as a NATO member – the potential of deepening bilateral and minilateral defence ...

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Global Politics of the Energy Transition

The project “Global Politics of the Energy Transition” investigates the fundamental transformations that are taking ...

NATO nuclear deterrence and its implications for Finland

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and Tampere University are conducting a research project titled ...

Finland’s evolving role in Euro-Atlantic security

The research project analyses Finland’s NATO membership process and its nascent NATO policy. Additionally, the project ...

Multilateral cooperation in an era of strategic competition: Options for influence for Finland and the European Union

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) is conducting a research project titled “Multilateral cooperation in ...

Finland in Afghanistan 2001–2021

On 10 November 2021 (UaVP 61/2021), the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Finland commissioned the Finnish ...

International Business Risk and Resilience Monitor for Strengthening National Economic Preparedness (IBRRM)

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) is working on a collaborative geoeconomic risk map to support public ...

Nordic Security of Supply in the Age of Disruption

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) was awarded a contract to conduct a baseline-study to enhance Nordic ...

Superregionalism and Contentious Connectivity in Asia

The research project will analyse the role of connectivity in Asia, broadly in the Indo-Pacific region, and its linkages ...

Russia’s technological policy and knowhow in a competitive global context

VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd. (VTT), the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and Aleksanteri ...

Europe facing great-power competition: Mapping Finland’s risks and options in the geoeconomic rivalry

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. (VTT) and ETLA Economic ...

Covid-19 as a political challenge at national and international levels

The project deals with the national and international political implications of the pandemic crisis, especially in Finland ...

Northern Europe in Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), the Aleksanteri Institute (AI) and the National Defence University ...

Finland and Climate Security in an Interdependent World

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Security Analysis Oy and Tyrsky ...

European Strategic Autonomy in a Geo-economic World

The project investigates the consequences of Europe’s push for strategic autonomy for the EU as an international actor and ...

The Politics of Climate Change

The project investigates the current politicization of climate change on the global, European, and national level. On the ...

EU IDEA – Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) leads a work package on EU foreign, security and defence policy in the ...

The External Dimensions of Counter-terrorism

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs was conducting a research project entitled “The external dimensions of ...

Development of EU’s Sanctions Policy: Political and economic implications for Finland

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) jointly with the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (Etla) ...

Changing Great Power Politics and Its Implications to Finland

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs conducted a nine-month research project which focused on the developments of ...

New Challenges for Strategic Deterrence in the 21st Century

After a decades-long hiatus, issues involving nuclear weapons have returned to the forefront of international security ...

The EU as a Security Community: citizens’ views and values

The Finnish Institute of International Affairs conducted a research project entitled ”The EU as a Security Community: ...

America’s changing global role and its impacts on transatlantic relations

This project investigated the evolution of America’s global engagement. In particular, it examined both the longer-term ...

Helsinki +40

FIIA participated in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 Project, an initiative that brought together ...

A Stronger North? Developing Nordic cooperation on foreign and security policy

FIIA conducted a one-year research project entitled: A Stronger North? – Developing Nordic cooperation on foreign and ...

Finland and the Tightening Competition in Global Politics

FIIA conducted a research project entitled ‘Finland and the Tightening Competition in Global Politics’. The project was ...

Finnish Foreign and Security policy

The project on Finnish foreign and security policy is a strategic excellence initiative that solidifies one key area of ...

Russia’s changing role in Finland’s neighbourhood

FIIA conducted a one-year research project entitled ‘Russia’s changing role in Finland’s neighbourhood’. ...