Niklas Helwig is a Leading Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He is also an Adjunct Professor in International Relations at Tampere University. His research focuses on EU foreign and security policy, German foreign and security policy, as well as EU-US relations. He currently leads an Academy of Finland-funded sub-project on “Transforming strategic cultures in contemporary Europe” (STRAX).
He worked at various think tanks in Europe and the US, including the RAND Corporation in Arlington VA, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin and the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. He was a DAAD Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington D.C. in 2018.
Niklas has published extensively in peer-reviewed academic journals and served as editor of special issues of German Politics and European Foreign Affairs Review. He has written policy analyses for government and non-profit organisations including the US Army and Air Force, the Finnish and German Government, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. His journalistic articles appeared for example in Die Zeit, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, War on the Rocks and Euractiv.
Niklas completed his PhD on the transformation of European foreign and security policy after the Lisbon treaty at the Universities of Cologne and Edinburgh. He holds a Master in Economics from the University of Cologne.
Titel
Docent, Tammerfors universitet
Expertis
EU:s utrikespolitik och försvarssamarbete, Tysklands utrikes- och försvarspolitik, relationerna mellan EU och USA.
Examen
PhD in Politics, Universities of Edinburgh and Cologne, 2014
Diploma in Economics (Master equivalent), University of Cologne, 2010
Språkkunskaper
engelska, tyska (arbetsspråk), finska (grunder)
Projekt
Europeisk strategisk autonomi i en geoekonomisk värld
Utvecklingen av EU:s sanktionspolitik: Politiska och ekonomiska följder för Finland
Europa och stormaktstävlan: Att kartlägga riskerna och möjligheterna för Finland i den geoekonomiska tävlan
Multilateralt samarbete i den strategiska konkurrensens tidsålder: Finlands och Europeiska unionens påverkansmöjligheter
Omvandlande av strategiska kulturer i samtida Europa