A quote by Ville Sinkkonen, Leading Researcher, FIIA and Sanna Salo, Senior Research Fellow, FIIA: "The resilience of Europe’s democracy will be measured by its ability to prop up the security and socio-economic foundations of the European project."
✒️ New RESLIDE blog on the US National Security Strategy and its implications for Europe is out, authored by @sinkkonenville.bsky.social & @slsalo.bsky.social
➡️ reslide.fi/en/much-ado-about-civilizations-donald-trumps-new-national-security-strategy-presents-an-ideological-challenge-for-europe/
09.12.2025 11:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Competing visions for international order: Challenges for a shared direction in an age of global contestation - FIIA - Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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📙 The event also marked the launch of the book Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Direction in an Age of Global Contestation, edited by @sinkkonenville.bsky.social, Veera Laine & Matti Puranen.
Read more & get the book (partly open access) ⤵️
fiia.fi/en/publicati...
26.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Toni Alaranta, Veera Laine, Bart Gaens, Tyyne Karjalainen, Teivo Teivainen, Ville Sinkkonen, and Matti Puranen on stage in front of FIIA roll-ups. Ville Sinkkonen talking into a microphone.
🌐 New conflicts are erupting, relations between great powers are becoming increasingly tense, and the old international order is coming apart.
Today's seminar explored shifts in the international order by focusing on the ordering visions of the United States, China, India, Turkey, and Russia.
26.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thrilled to be part of this new volume published in @tepsa.bsky.social book series with a chapter on Finland with @nhelwig.bsky.social. A vital survival guide to the "new Trump era"!
10.04.2025 19:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Read Niklas Helwig's new book "The EU High Representative: Foreign Policy Leadership in a Changing World" for an analytical approach to the role of EU High Representative since the Lisbon Treaty
🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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29.01.2025 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Four lenses for observing the second term of Trump | FIIA
The new US administration aims to usher in a "Golden Age of America", with impacts on domestic politics and society, as well as foreign policy.
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👉 National sovereignty, economic nationalism, devolution, and the unmooring of power. 4️⃣ key lenses through which the new US administration should be viewed, argue @charlyjsp.bsky.social & @sinkkonenville.bsky.social from @fiia-upi.bsky.social
🔗 fiia.fi/en/publicati...
22.01.2025 13:01 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
DAY 1. Trump's approach to international institutions could be summed up in two E's: exit and extortion. Nothing new here - 45 & 47 being true to form.
21.01.2025 09:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My summary of Trumps' inauguration speech:
America and the world will get a lot of what it says on the tin: policies and actions rooted in nationalism and especially economic nationalism, with a big dose of cultural conservatism to please the old guard.
20.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
So we wrote on Trump and the incoming administration with @charlyjsp.bsky.social for @fiia-upi.bsky.social Reflections (or perhaps refractions) through four lenses: national sovereignty, economic nationalism, devolution, and the unmooring of
power.
17.01.2025 17:02 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Citation from FIIA Briefing Paper by Charly Salonius-Pasternak and Ville Sinkkonen: "In terms of foreign policy, a reduced set of checks on Trump's power could have detrimental consequences in the global arena." Picture of Donald Trump speaking on a podium is on the right side of the quote.
The 2nd Trump administration is likely to embrace disruption and chaos to achieve revolutionary rather than evolutionary change, @charlyjsp.bsky.social & Ville Sinkkonen say in a new FIIA Briefing Paper.
They provide four lenses for observing the administration's strategy.
➡️ fiia.fi/en/publicati...
16.01.2025 10:14 — 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 3
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