Mika Aaltola
Programme Director
Global Security research programme
The Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Finland
Biography
Academic Degrees Doctor of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, 1999 (Award: Best Doctoral Dissertation at University Tampere 1999-2000) M.Sc.Soc., University of Tampere, 1995 (Award: Best Master Thesis in Political Science in Finland 1994-1995) BA, Columbia University, 1992 Professional experience Visiting senior research fellow, Johns Hopkins, SAIS, Fall 2013 Visiting professor, Tallinn University, 2011- Visiting senior research fellow, Sciences Po, CERI, Fall 2011 Visiting professor, University of Minnesota, 2006-2008 Senior assistant, University of Tampere, 1998-2006 Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University, Spring 1997 Main Positions of Trust Docent, University of Tampere 2005. Steering Committee Member, Standing Groups of International Relations, EISA (SGIR), 2010- Principal Investigator, Academy of Finland Research Project "Ethics, Politics, and Emergencies: Humanitarian Collaboration and Co-option in World Politics”, 2009-2013. Member of the Management Committee, European Union Cost Action on Peace Keeping and Crisis Management, 2009- President, Finnish International Studies Association, 2005-2008 Editor, Finnish Journal of Political Science, 2007-2008 Member of the Board, Finnish Political Science Association, 1998-2010 Member of the Board, Finnish International Studies Association, 2005- Member of the Board, Nordic International Studies Studies Association, 2008- Member of the Faculty Council 2000-2003, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere
Research Interest
US domestic and foreign affairs, global governance, major-power relations, Finnish foreign policy, religion and world politics, humanitarianism, catastrophe policy, pandemic crisis
Publications
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Mika Aaltola, Sowing the Seeds of Sacred: Political Religion of Contemporary World Politics and American Era, Brill: 2008.
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Mika Aaltola, Suomen Ulkopolitiikan Kielipelejä: Analyysi Ulkopolitiikan Tutkimuksesta 1970-2003. [Language Games of Finnish Foreign Policy: Analysis of Foreign Policy Research 1970-2003]. University of Tampere Press, 2003.
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Mika Aaltola, Rhythm, Rule, and Exception in International Relations: The Mad Cow Crisis and European Union. University of Tampere, 1999. Thesis
