Raimo Väyrynen
Director

The role of small states in the United Nations and its Security Council is a complex issue. In terms of numbers, small countries form a great majority of the UN members, but even their combined influence on the outcomes of the world organization remains limited...

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Raimo Väyrynen
Director

In a new book, Obama administration co-transition chief John Podesta has coauthored a chapter on the security implications of the “expected climate change”. If Podesta takes the lead on energy in the Obama administration, the United States may not end up immediately heading a revolution in clean energy technologies and the global mission to control climate change.

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Raimo Väyrynen
Director

The European Security Strategy (“A Secure Europe in a Better World”) was launched in 2003 in somewhat different international circumstances. An obvious conclusion from the Georgian crisis is that the EU needs a new security strategy which takes the changing policy of Russia, among other things, into account. It is, however, difficult to see how the Union could become a more consequential player in interstate military conflicts, and perhaps it even should not.

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