Sinikukka Saari

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Sinikukka Saari

Researcher - The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia research programme

sinikukka.saarifiia.fi
Telephone +358 9 432 7755
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On parental leave from 25 November 2011

Academic degree
PhD in International Relations, the London School of Economics and Political Science (2007)
  
Expertise
Political developments in Russia, Rusian foreign policy, EU–Russia relations, EU’s Eastern Partnership, European human rights and democracy promotion
  
Ongoing research projects
Managing Distrust between the EU, Russia and the states in their shared neighbourhood
Multidimensional security issues in the wider Black Sea region
Foreign policy implications of Russia’s ‘sovereign democracy’
  
Recent publications
Sinikukka Saari, The Persistence of Putin's Russia: Why don't Russians demand more?, FIIA Briefing Paper, no. 92, 11 November 2011
 
 
 

Sinikukka Saari, ‘Managing Distrust in Wider Black Sea Region’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, vol. 11, no. 3

Sinikukka Saari, ‘Nurturing Trust in Wider Black Sea Region’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, vol. 11, no. 3 

Sinikukka Saari: The Boom and Crash of Modernisation Zeal in EU–Russia Relations, Baltic Rim Economies, 2/2011
 
Sinikukka Saari and Arto Nokkala: Avoimuuden aikakausi [An Era of Openness], Ulkopolitiikka, 2/2011
 
Sinikukka Saari: External Implications of Russia's Non-democratic Political Development, in Perspectives on European Security - STETE Yearbook 2010, February 2011
 
Sinikukka Saari: Trust in EU-Russia Relations, in Andres Kasekamp (ed.), The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook 2010, Tallinn: Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, January 2011
 
Sinikukka Saari: What Went Wrong with the EU’s Human Rights Policy in Russia?, EU-Russia Centre Review: EU Human Rights Policy towards Russia, Brussels: EURC, November 2010
 
Sinikukka Saari: The call for a ‘dignified’ EU foreign policy: How to promote human rights in Russia?, FIIA Comment, Helsinki: FIIA, November 2010
 
Sinikukka Saari and Katri Pynnöniemi: Medvedev's take on the power vertical: Are the rules of the game changing in Russia?, FIIA Briefing Paper 51, Helsinki: FIIA, January 2010
 
Sinikukka Saari: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Russia. London: Routledge, 2009
 
Sinikukka Saari: 'Democracy promotion and Russia after the colour revolutions', Democratization, vol. 16, no 4, 2009
 
Sinikukka Saari: 'Russia's Creeping Challenge to European Norms', a chapter in Ted Hopf (ed.), Russia's European Choice? Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008
  
Languages
Finnish, English (media), Russian, Swedish