Academic degree
PhD in International Relations, University of Tampere, 2008

Expertise
Russian foreign policy and foreign economic relations, Russia-EU relations, domestic developments in Russia, and Russia’s transport and infrastructure policies

Ongoing research projects
Russia’s foreign policy and the quest for leadership in the Eurasian economic space (2011-2013)

Political constraints on Russia’s economic development

 

Russia’s Modernization Reloaded: Political Constraints on Economic Development FIIA Briefing Paper 67

 

The political constraints on Russia’s economic development. The visionary zeal of technological modernization and its critics FIIA Working Paper 65

 

What makes Russia’s modernization a political project? Baltic Rim Economies, 6/2010

 

New Road, New Life, New Russia: International transport corridors at the conjunction of geography and politics in Russia. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis; 1314.Tampere University Press 2008

 

Languages
Finnish, English (working languages)