Pami Aalto

Shaukat Aziz

Shlomo Avineri

Elena Alekseenkova

Ibrahim Almuttaqi

Yelena Ananyeva

Ebtesam Al-Ketbi

Alexey Avtonomov

Aydar R. Aganin

Abdul Rahman Alageli

Pami Aalto

Finland

Professor and Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on European Politics and European-Russian Relations, University of Tampere, Finland; Team Leader, Diversification of the Economy research cluster, Centre of Excellence on Choices of Russian Modernization, Academy of Finland.

Previous positions: Research Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies (2005-2007).

Research interests: Northern Europe, Russia, EU-Russia relations, energy policy, EU foreign policy, geopolitics, international society, interdisciplinary studies, methodology.

Selected publications: Russia’s Energy Policies: National, Interregional and Global Levels (2012); Global and Regional Problems: towards Interdisciplinary Study (2012); International Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (2011); The New Northern Dimension of European Neighbourhood (2008); The EU - Russia Energy Dialogue: Europe’s Future Energy Security (2007).

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Parliamentary Elections in Finland: The Already Started Strategic Re-Orientation to Continue

The win of the Centre Party in Finland’s recent parliamentary elections (49/200 seats) should not result in major changes in Finland’s foreign policy. However, the new strategic planning, started already during the outgoing government’s term, will continue.

30.04.2015

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Major Environmental Challenges for Russia

Climate change, permafrost melting will affect energy installations in the northern areas of Russia. The Arctic oil could cause tremendous environmental disaster, in terms of oil leakages, in the Arctic Sea. Russia can't possibly manage that alone.

31.10.2012

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