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The Finnish Institute for International Affairs is a private research institute which promotes applied research on current topics. FIIA (UPI) Briefing Papers offer brief updates on FIIA research projects, ranging from topics on international relations and politics to international research theory and Finland's role in the international arena.

Publishers:	Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
Publications:	Hard Security Dynamics in the Baltic Sea Region: From Turbulences to Tense Stability The Basis for Strong US-European Relations Endures: Continuity in Institutions and Interests The Belarusian Paradox The 2019 European Election: New Political Constellations China’s Challenge to Human Rights What’s Next for UN Climate Negotiations? Tackling Democratic Vulnerabilities in the Post-Truth Era: Domestic and International Responses NATO’s Return to the North Atlantic: Implications for the Defense of Northern Europe Will International Institutions Fail Again? International Power Shifts and the Future of Global Cooperation Communist Parties in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova: Struggling with Popular Demands Germany and European Defence Cooperation: A Post-Atlantic Turn The EU in the German Elections Endgame in Venezuela: Dictatorship or Re-Democratization Belarus´s Disequilibrium: Mounting Challenges and Reluctance to Change India´s ´Look East´- ´Act East´ Policy Trade Liberalization at a Crossroads: The US and China Play Key Roles The Cyber-Enabled Information Struggle: Russia´s Approach and Western Vulnerabilities The New Frontex and the Future of Schengen The EU-Japan Partnership: Stepping Stone for a Stronger Presence in Asia? A More Powerful European Council: Old and New Trends The Southern Gas Corridor: Challenges to a Geopolitical Approach in the EU´s External Energy Policy Alternative Ways of Global Governance: Informal Institutions and the Role of Small States Turkish Troops in Syria: Is it all about the Kurds from Now On? Xi Jinping at Mid-Term and Beyond Middle Eastern Terror: Mosul after Daesh, Daesh after Raqqa Europe´s New Defense Agenda: Major Hurdles Still Remain The EU´s Security and Defense Policy: Will the New Strategy Bear Fruit? Climate Security: Strategy or Necessity for Finland? Three Years after Euromaidan: Is Ukraine Still on the Right Track? The Future of US-Europe Relations: Institutional Constraints and Public Opinion May Render Changes Smaller than Expected The Role of the European Parliament: Between External and Internal Challenges Russia´s 2016 Duma Elections: Ambiguous Triumph and New Challenges for the Regime Election Hacking in Democracies: The Example of the US 2016 Elections Brexit´s Impact on the EU Institutions: Immediate Implications and Possibilities for Reform Afghanistan´s Uncertain Future: Fragmented Realities and Geopolitical Fault Lines The EU-Turkey Stalemate: Detecting the Root Causes of the Dysfunctional Relationship Cyber Attacks Go Beyond Espionage: The Strategic Logic of State-Sponsored Cyber Operations in the Nordic-Baltic Region China’s Advance in Latin America: Geostrategic Implications for Europe, the US, and the Region Itself What´s Going On in the USA? Explaining the Trump Phenomenon Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Activation of Risk Potential Detour or Direction? The Europeanisation of France´s Policies Towards Russia Privileged Partners, Italy Should Use its Leverage for Constructive Policies towards Russia Sticking to the Rules: The United States View on Strengthening the OSCE New Horizons and Internal Reforms: The Regional Implications of China's Military Posture Moscow's Arctic Dreams Turned Sour? Analysing Russia's Policies in the Arctic Dividing the EU with Energy? Unpacking Russia's Energy Geoeconomics China's New Foreign Politics: Xi Jinping's Universal Rule by Virtue? Crafting the EU Global Strategy: Building Blocks for a Stronger Europe National Courts and Foreign Policy: Prosecuting Foreign State Leaders for International Crimes Obama's Foreign Policy: A Long Game Harried by Tactical Politics Paris Stress Test: Can the UN Climate Talks Deliver? The EU-Russia Gas Relationship Emancipated from the Motherland? No Change on the Horizon: Belarus after the 2015 Presidential Election No Light in Sight on the Korean Peninsula Egypt's Botched Revolution: Absolutism and the Infelicitous Role of External Actors Continental Shelf Claims in the Arctic Fear of Migration: Is the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood Policy Fading Away? A Turning Point in the EU's Climate Policy? Turkey's New Russian Policy: Towards a Strategic Alliance Securitizing Aid: The Nexus Between Japan's Development Cooperation and Security Policy The War and Reforms in Ukraine: Can it Cope with Both? The EU's Energy Union: Towards an Integrated European Energy Market? Seal the Deal or Lose Brazil: Implications of the EU-Mercosur Negotiations From Stagnation to Cul-de-sac? Balancing Targeted Sanctions: Effectiveness Through a Climate of Legality Fine-Tuning EU Foreign Policy Pushed Together by External Forces? War on Two Fronts: The EU Perspective on the Foreign Terrorist Fighters of ISIL Europe's Changing Security Landscape Towards a Two-State Solution Deeper Defence Cooperation: Finland and Sweden Together Again? EU Sanctions against Russia China's Public Opinion Management: Tightening the Grip in the Digital Age Russian Thinking in the Ukraine Crisis Eurosceptics in the 2014 EP Elections Divided Stands the Visegrad? Georgia's Search for the Third Way The End of the EU Project in Turkey? The High Representative 3.0: Taking EU Foreign Policy to the Next Level Beyond the Euro Crisis Chinese Dream, Others' Nightmare? The ICC under Political Pressure: Towards Lowered Expectations of Global Justice Illicit Trade Flows The Conflict Over Aviation Emissions Who Leads the New EMU? Japan's New Security Policy: Breaking Away from the Post-war Regime? The Post-2015 Agenda and the EU Putin's Reactive Reforms European Defence Under Scrutiny UN Statebuilding at a Turning Point Updating the EMU: Differentiated Economic Integration in the European Union The WTO under Pressure: Tackling the Deadlock in Multilateral Trade European Climate Diplomacy: Building Capacity for External Action Towards a Deeper EMU: An Assessment of Political Divisions Within the EU Iceland and Europe: Drifting Further Apart? Arctic Conflict Potential: Towards an Extra-Arctic Perspective Obama's Climate Policy: Addressing Climate Change Through Executive Actions Three Options for the EU: Assessing the EU's Powers in a True Economic and Political Union Right-wing Nationalism in Russia The German Election: No Vote for Europe? The Global Arctic: The Growing Arctic Interests of Russia, China, the United States and the European Union Transatlantic Drug Trade Responsibility to Protect... Itself? Russia’s Strategy Towards the Crisis in Syria Maritime Security in a Multipolar World Counterterrorism in External Action: The EU ’s Toolbox for Responding to Terrorism Abroad The German Energy Transition Arctic Economic Potential Russia’s Defence Reform David Cameron's European Policy The Changing European Defence Market The Shale Gas Boom Carving out his Place in History Transatlantic Cybersecurity Russia’s Pressure Politics Bringing Stability to Europe Georgian Dream or Nightmare? Towards Efficient Early Action Not Just Another Arms Deal The Electoral Trap A Rocky Road Towards Europe Great Expectations: Understanding Why the UN Climate Talks Seem to Fail Ripe and Ready for Rio+20? Turkey and the Iranian Nuclear Programme Eurosceptic Big Bang An Alienated Partnership On the Road to a True Economic and Monetary Union? The Corporate Benefits of the Euro Federalismia vai Markkinakuria? The Beginning of the End? Fighting Climate Change Constructing a German Europe? Russian Protest On- and Offline Europe's Declining Role in the G-20 Austerity Ahead Between Consensus and Confusion The Persistence of Putin's Russia The Empowered European Parliament Legal Order Free of Pillars Swimming in Murky Waters Pro-European Presidency Protectors of Putin's Vertical Divided We Fail Guardians of Subsidiarity Assertive Brazil Much Ado About Nothing: The EU's Transport Dialogue with Russia Between Conditonality and Engagement Whose Money? The Tug-of-War Over Chinese State Enterprise Profits Getting Cold in the Caucasus Practicing Progressive Pragmatism A Climate of Consensus One Question, Any Answers? Russia's Arctic Policy Deciphering Egypt's Transition Towards a New Managerial Identity for the Rotating EU Council Presidency High Expectations, Limited Resources Russia-EU Cooperation on Energy Efficiency Russia’s Modernization Reloaded Maailmantalouden Uusi Järjestys Will the EU Get a Real President? Uusia Virtauksia Itämeren Suojeluun Elephant in the Room Tools for Building EU Climate Consensus No Real Winner? Britain’s Closest Election in a Generation and the Implications for Europe The Odd Couple? Oil or Climate Politics? Rewriting the Ground Rules of European Diplomacy Integration Reloaded: Streamlining Moldova's European Course The EU and the Global Climate Regime The Morning After: Where is Ukraine Headed Under President Yanukovych? Hitting a Moving Target Sulavan Arktiksen Avainkysymykset Medvedev's Take on the Power Vertical Medvedevin Versio Vallan Vertikaalista The Stockholm Programme Bargaining in the Saudi Bazaar Medvedev's Amendments to the Law on Defence The Layers of the Doll Japanese Governance Reform Germany After the Elections Afghanistan's Hard Summer Irlannin Kansanäänestys: EU Pidättää Hengitystään Lissabonin Sopimuksen Kohtalosta Saksan ja Venäjän Suhteet: Aiheuttaako Saksan Vaalitulos Muutoksia? German-Russian Relations: Will There be Changes After the German Elections? The Dead Souls ´Can´t Buy Me Love´ Military Humanitarian Integration Climate Sudoku Venäjän Puolueet Parties in Russia The Russian Debate on Climate Doctrine Flags and Hymns Are Not for Finns Europarlamentin Asema Vielä Epäselvä Suomessa Looking for a New Strategic Identity Euros for low-Carbon Development Czech Point: A Mid-Term Evaluation of an On-Going Small State Presidency Immigration in Europe at a Time of Economic Hardship Turvallisuuden tae vai este kumppanuudelle: EU:n ja Venäjän viisumipolitiikka Barack Obaman Mantra: Enemmän multilateralismia, enemmän panosta, enemmän vastuuta Russia's Politics amidst the Global Economic Crisis Russia and the Post-2012 Climate Regime From Hegemony to the New Geopolitical Competition The Sustainability of Russia's Resurgence False Premises, Sound Principles: The Way Forward in EU-Russia Relations Opening the European Commission's Delegation in Minsk: Do EU-Belarus Relations need a Rethink? Russia in 2008 and Beyond: What Kind of Foreign Policy? The Transport Infrastructure in Russia Russia's Security Policy Grows A Collapsing Façade? The Russian Duma Election in Perspective Staying the Course: The Options of the West in the Face of Belarus Making a Difference: Why and How Europe Should Increase its Engagement in Ukraine The Implications of China's Rise for Asia and Europe ´WMD´ Terrorism - How Scared Should We Be? The US and Iran on a Confrontational Course

Publishers:

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Publications:

Hard Security Dynamics in the Baltic Sea Region: From Turbulences to Tense Stability
The Basis for Strong US-European Relations Endures: Continuity in Institutions and Interests
The Belarusian Paradox
The 2019 European Election: New Political Constellations
China’s Challenge to Human Rights
What’s Next for UN Climate Negotiations?
Tackling Democratic Vulnerabilities in the Post-Truth Era: Domestic and International Responses
NATO’s Return to the North Atlantic: Implications for the Defense of Northern Europe
Will International Institutions Fail Again? International Power Shifts and the Future of Global Cooperation
Communist Parties in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova: Struggling with Popular Demands
Germany and European Defence Cooperation: A Post-Atlantic Turn
The EU in the German Elections
Endgame in Venezuela: Dictatorship or Re-Democratization
Belarus´s Disequilibrium: Mounting Challenges and Reluctance to Change
India´s ´Look East´- ´Act East´ Policy
Trade Liberalization at a Crossroads: The US and China Play Key Roles
The Cyber-Enabled Information Struggle: Russia´s Approach and Western Vulnerabilities
The New Frontex and the Future of Schengen
The EU-Japan Partnership: Stepping Stone for a Stronger Presence in Asia?
A More Powerful European Council: Old and New Trends
The Southern Gas Corridor: Challenges to a Geopolitical Approach in the EU´s External Energy Policy
Alternative Ways of Global Governance: Informal Institutions and the Role of Small States
Turkish Troops in Syria: Is it all about the Kurds from Now On?
Xi Jinping at Mid-Term and Beyond
Middle Eastern Terror: Mosul after Daesh, Daesh after Raqqa
Europe´s New Defense Agenda: Major Hurdles Still Remain
The EU´s Security and Defense Policy: Will the New Strategy Bear Fruit?
Climate Security: Strategy or Necessity for Finland?
Three Years after Euromaidan: Is Ukraine Still on the Right Track?
The Future of US-Europe Relations: Institutional Constraints and Public Opinion May Render Changes Smaller than Expected
The Role of the European Parliament: Between External and Internal Challenges
Russia´s 2016 Duma Elections: Ambiguous Triumph and New Challenges for the Regime
Election Hacking in Democracies: The Example of the US 2016 Elections
Brexit´s Impact on the EU Institutions: Immediate Implications and Possibilities for Reform
Afghanistan´s Uncertain Future: Fragmented Realities and Geopolitical Fault Lines
The EU-Turkey Stalemate: Detecting the Root Causes of the Dysfunctional Relationship
Cyber Attacks Go Beyond Espionage: The Strategic Logic of State-Sponsored Cyber Operations in the Nordic-Baltic Region
China’s Advance in Latin America: Geostrategic Implications for Europe, the US, and the Region Itself
What´s Going On in the USA? Explaining the Trump Phenomenon
Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Activation of Risk Potential
Detour or Direction? The Europeanisation of France´s Policies Towards Russia
Privileged Partners, Italy Should Use its Leverage for Constructive Policies towards Russia
Sticking to the Rules: The United States View on Strengthening the OSCE
New Horizons and Internal Reforms: The Regional Implications of China's Military Posture
Moscow's Arctic Dreams Turned Sour? Analysing Russia's Policies in the Arctic
Dividing the EU with Energy? Unpacking Russia's Energy Geoeconomics
China's New Foreign Politics: Xi Jinping's Universal Rule by Virtue?
Crafting the EU Global Strategy: Building Blocks for a Stronger Europe
National Courts and Foreign Policy: Prosecuting Foreign State Leaders for International Crimes
Obama's Foreign Policy: A Long Game Harried by Tactical Politics
Paris Stress Test: Can the UN Climate Talks Deliver?
The EU-Russia Gas Relationship
Emancipated from the Motherland?
No Change on the Horizon: Belarus after the 2015 Presidential Election
No Light in Sight on the Korean Peninsula
Egypt's Botched Revolution: Absolutism and the Infelicitous Role of External Actors
Continental Shelf Claims in the Arctic
Fear of Migration: Is the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood Policy Fading Away?
A Turning Point in the EU's Climate Policy?
Turkey's New Russian Policy: Towards a Strategic Alliance
Securitizing Aid: The Nexus Between Japan's Development Cooperation and Security Policy
The War and Reforms in Ukraine: Can it Cope with Both?
The EU's Energy Union: Towards an Integrated European Energy Market?
Seal the Deal or Lose Brazil: Implications of the EU-Mercosur Negotiations
From Stagnation to Cul-de-sac?
Balancing Targeted Sanctions: Effectiveness Through a Climate of Legality
Fine-Tuning EU Foreign Policy
Pushed Together by External Forces?
War on Two Fronts: The EU Perspective on the Foreign Terrorist Fighters of ISIL
Europe's Changing Security Landscape
Towards a Two-State Solution
Deeper Defence Cooperation: Finland and Sweden Together Again?
EU Sanctions against Russia
China's Public Opinion Management: Tightening the Grip in the Digital Age
Russian Thinking in the Ukraine Crisis
Eurosceptics in the 2014 EP Elections
Divided Stands the Visegrad?
Georgia's Search for the Third Way
The End of the EU Project in Turkey?
The High Representative 3.0: Taking EU Foreign Policy to the Next Level
Beyond the Euro Crisis
Chinese Dream, Others' Nightmare?
The ICC under Political Pressure: Towards Lowered Expectations of Global Justice
Illicit Trade Flows
The Conflict Over Aviation Emissions
Who Leads the New EMU?
Japan's New Security Policy: Breaking Away from the Post-war Regime?
The Post-2015 Agenda and the EU
Putin's Reactive Reforms
European Defence Under Scrutiny
UN Statebuilding at a Turning Point
Updating the EMU: Differentiated Economic Integration in the European Union
The WTO under Pressure: Tackling the Deadlock in Multilateral Trade
European Climate Diplomacy: Building Capacity for External Action
Towards a Deeper EMU: An Assessment of Political Divisions Within the EU
Iceland and Europe: Drifting Further Apart?
Arctic Conflict Potential: Towards an Extra-Arctic Perspective
Obama's Climate Policy: Addressing Climate Change Through Executive Actions
Three Options for the EU: Assessing the EU's Powers in a True Economic and Political Union
Right-wing Nationalism in Russia
The German Election: No Vote for Europe?
The Global Arctic: The Growing Arctic Interests of Russia, China, the United States and the European Union
Transatlantic Drug Trade
Responsibility to Protect... Itself? Russia’s Strategy Towards the Crisis in Syria
Maritime Security in a Multipolar World
Counterterrorism in External Action: The EU ’s Toolbox for Responding to Terrorism Abroad
The German Energy Transition
Arctic Economic Potential
Russia’s Defence Reform
David Cameron's European Policy
The Changing European Defence Market
The Shale Gas Boom
Carving out his Place in History
Transatlantic Cybersecurity
Russia’s Pressure Politics
Bringing Stability to Europe
Georgian Dream or Nightmare?
Towards Efficient Early Action
Not Just Another Arms Deal
The Electoral Trap
A Rocky Road Towards Europe
Great Expectations: Understanding Why the UN Climate Talks Seem to Fail
Ripe and Ready for Rio+20?
Turkey and the Iranian Nuclear Programme
Eurosceptic Big Bang
An Alienated Partnership
On the Road to a True Economic and Monetary Union?
The Corporate Benefits of the Euro
Federalismia vai Markkinakuria?
The Beginning of the End?
Fighting Climate Change
Constructing a German Europe?
Russian Protest On- and Offline
Europe's Declining Role in the G-20
Austerity Ahead
Between Consensus and Confusion
The Persistence of Putin's Russia
The Empowered European Parliament
Legal Order Free of Pillars
Swimming in Murky Waters
Pro-European Presidency
Protectors of Putin's Vertical
Divided We Fail
Guardians of Subsidiarity
Assertive Brazil
Much Ado About Nothing: The EU's Transport Dialogue with Russia
Between Conditonality and Engagement
Whose Money? The Tug-of-War Over Chinese State Enterprise Profits
Getting Cold in the Caucasus
Practicing Progressive Pragmatism
A Climate of Consensus
One Question, Any Answers?
Russia's Arctic Policy
Deciphering Egypt's Transition
Towards a New Managerial Identity for the Rotating EU Council Presidency
High Expectations, Limited Resources
Russia-EU Cooperation on Energy Efficiency
Russia’s Modernization Reloaded
Maailmantalouden Uusi Järjestys
Will the EU Get a Real President?
Uusia Virtauksia Itämeren Suojeluun
Elephant in the Room
Tools for Building EU Climate Consensus
No Real Winner? Britain’s Closest Election in a Generation and the Implications for Europe
The Odd Couple?
Oil or Climate Politics?
Rewriting the Ground Rules of European Diplomacy
Integration Reloaded: Streamlining Moldova's European Course
The EU and the Global Climate Regime
The Morning After: Where is Ukraine Headed Under President Yanukovych?
Hitting a Moving Target
Sulavan Arktiksen Avainkysymykset
Medvedev's Take on the Power Vertical
Medvedevin Versio Vallan Vertikaalista
The Stockholm Programme
Bargaining in the Saudi Bazaar
Medvedev's Amendments to the Law on Defence
The Layers of the Doll
Japanese Governance Reform
Germany After the Elections
Afghanistan's Hard Summer
Irlannin Kansanäänestys: EU Pidättää Hengitystään Lissabonin Sopimuksen Kohtalosta
Saksan ja Venäjän Suhteet: Aiheuttaako Saksan Vaalitulos Muutoksia?
German-Russian Relations: Will There be Changes After the German Elections?
The Dead Souls
´Can´t Buy Me Love´
Military Humanitarian Integration
Climate Sudoku
Venäjän Puolueet
Parties in Russia
The Russian Debate on Climate Doctrine
Flags and Hymns Are Not for Finns
Europarlamentin Asema Vielä Epäselvä Suomessa
Looking for a New Strategic Identity
Euros for low-Carbon Development
Czech Point: A Mid-Term Evaluation of an On-Going Small State Presidency
Immigration in Europe at a Time of Economic Hardship
Turvallisuuden tae vai este kumppanuudelle: EU:n ja Venäjän viisumipolitiikka
Barack Obaman Mantra: Enemmän multilateralismia, enemmän panosta, enemmän vastuuta
Russia's Politics amidst the Global Economic Crisis
Russia and the Post-2012 Climate Regime
From Hegemony to the New Geopolitical Competition
The Sustainability of Russia's Resurgence
False Premises, Sound Principles: The Way Forward in EU-Russia Relations
Opening the European Commission's Delegation in Minsk: Do EU-Belarus Relations need a Rethink?
Russia in 2008 and Beyond: What Kind of Foreign Policy?
The Transport Infrastructure in Russia
Russia's Security Policy Grows
A Collapsing Façade? The Russian Duma Election in Perspective
Staying the Course: The Options of the West in the Face of Belarus
Making a Difference: Why and How Europe Should Increase its Engagement in Ukraine
The Implications of China's Rise for Asia and Europe
´WMD´ Terrorism - How Scared Should We Be?
The US and Iran on a Confrontational Course