Jussi M. Hanhimäki Professor of International History
Finland Distinguished Professor
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Case postale 136
1211 Geneva 21 Switzerland
Tel. +41-‐22-‐908 5867 (office); +41-‐76-‐328 9616 (mobile) E-‐mail: jussi.hanhimaki@graduateinstitute.ch
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Twentieth Century International History; Cold War History; American foreign policy; Transatlantic Relations; Refugee history; History of International organizations
EDUCATION
Ph.D., International History, Boston University, 1993
MA, American History, Boston University, 1987
BA, History, Tampere University (Finland), 1986
CURRENT POSITIONS
Professor of International History, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000-‐
Co-‐Director, History and Policy Initiative, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Geneva Center for Security Policy, 2015-‐
Docent, University of Helsinki, Department of Political History, 2002-‐
OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland, 2007-‐2011
Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1995-‐2000
Visiting Scholar, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University, 1994-‐1995
Charles Warren Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 1993-‐1994
Assistant Professor of History, Bishop’s University, Quebec, Canada, 1992-‐1993
Adjunct Professor, Boston University, Boston, MA, 1990-‐1991
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
Senior Fellow, LSE IDEAS, LSE, Spring 2012
Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland, 2007-‐2011
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 2002-‐2003
Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2002
Senior Visiting Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2001
Prize for Teaching Excellence, London School of Economics, 1998
Visiting Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute, 1997
Visiting Fellow, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University, 1994-‐1995
Post-‐doctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,
1993-‐1995
Charles Warren Fellow, Harvard University, 1993-‐1994
Peace Scholar, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, 1991-‐1992
FUNDRAISING AND GRANTS
Team Project Funding (Project Leader)
Project Director: “Reassessing the End of the Cold War: Western Interventionism in the ‘Arc of Crisis’ and Africa, from the mid-‐1970s to the early 1990s.” Based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, funded by the Swiss National Foundation (SNF), 2013-‐2017. Total funding: 404.527 CHF (Swiss Francs).
Project Co-‐director: “Reimagining Futures in the European North at the End of the Cold War.” An Academy of Finland Research Project, 2013-‐2017. Total funding: 806.000 EUR
Project Director: “‘International Terrorism, the West, and the Cold War, 1970-‐
1992.” Based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, funded by the SNF, 2012-‐2015. Total funding: 460.586 CHF.
Project Director: “Transatlantic Relations in the ‘Long’ Twentieth Century.”
Finland Distinguished Professor Program, funded by the Academy of Finland, 2007-‐11. Total funding: 1,150.000 EUR
Project Director: “UNHCR and the Globalization of Refugee Issues, 1951-‐1989.”
Graduate Institute and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, funded by FNS, 2008-‐10. Total funding: 192.962 CHF.
Project Director: “UNHCR and the Global Cold War,1965-‐1984.” Graduate Institute, Geneva Center for Security Policy, and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, funded by Geneva International Academic Network, 2006-‐2007. Total funding: 136.000 CHF
Conference Funding (since 2008):
“The Great Transformation: Reassessing the Causes and Consequences of the End of the Cold War.” Geneva, September 2015. Funding obtained: 55.000 CHF
“States and Terrorism: An Ambivalent Relationship.” Geneva, May 2015. Funding obtained: 10.400 CHF
“Terrorism and International Politics: Past, Present, and Future.” Geneva, September 2011. Funding obtained: 31.000 CHF.
“The Concept of Mixed Migration: Reflecting on Today’s Migratory Policies and Paradigm Shifts.” Geneva, April 2010. Funding obtained: 5000 CHF
“Transatlantic Security Issues from the Cold War to the 21st Century.” Geneva, April, 2009. Funding obtained: 28.000 CHF
“Conflict and Community: Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War.”
Tampere, Finland, May 2008. Funding obtained: 36.000 EUR
Individual Research Funding and Fellowships
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2002-‐2003. Research Fellowship for a project on Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy.
Nuffield Foundation, Research Grant, 1997. For a research project on European views on McCarthyism.
The Academy of Finland, 1994-‐1995. For a postdoctoral research project on Neutrality in the Cold War.
Harvard University, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, 1993-‐1994. Research Fellowship for a project on United States and Scandinavia during the Cold War.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 1993-‐1995.
Grant for a postdoctoral research project on neutrality in the Cold War.
The Academy of Finland, 1991-‐1992. For completing doctoral research on United States, Finland and the Soviet Union in the early Cold War.
Short-‐term Research and Travel Funding
Gerald R. Ford Library, Research and Travel Grant, 1998, 2002
Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Research and Travel Grant, 1996
John F. Kennedy Library, Research Grant, 1993
Harry S. Truman Library, Travel Grant, 1990
Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, Research Grant, 1990
PUBLICATIONS
Work in Progress
Global Visions and Parochial Politics: American Domestic and Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War. In progress.
The Outsiders: Kissinger, Brzezinski, and the Rivalry that Shaped the American Century. New York: Oxford University Press (under contract, estimated completion in 2018).
The Cold War: A Transnational History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (under contract, estimated completion in 2017).
Authored and Co-‐authored Books
The Rise and Fall of Détente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2013.
Transatlantic Relations Since 1945: An Introduction. With Benedikt Schoenborn and Barbara Zanchetta. London: Routledge, 2012.
United Nations: A Very Short Introduction. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 2nd edition 2015. An Arabic translation published in 2013.
The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004.
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. With Antony Best, Joe Maiolo and Kirsten Schultze. London: Routledge, 2003, 2008, 2015.
-‐Turkish translation: 20. Yuzyilin Uluslararasi Tarihi. Translated by Taciser Ulas Belge. Ankara : Siyasal kitabevi, 2012.
-‐Italian translation: Storia delle relazioni internazionali il mondo nel XX secole e oltre. Turin: UTET, 2014.
The Cold War: A History with Documents and Eye-‐Witness Accounts. With Odd Arne Westad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 (paperback 2004).
An Insecure Friendship: the United States and Scandinavia Since 1945. Twayne’s International History Series. New York: Twayne Publishers/Macmillan, 1997.
Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the ‘Finnish Solution,’ 1945-‐1956.
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997.
Rinnakkaiseloa patoamassa: Yhdysvallat ja Paasikiven linja, 1948-‐1956. Helsinki:
SHS, 1996.
Edited Volumes
The Great Transformation: Reassessing the End of the Cold War. Edited with Barbara Zanchetta and Bernhard Blumenau. London: Routledge, 2017 (forthcoming).
Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War. Edited with Sandra Blott, Janick Schaufelbuehl and Marco Wyss. London: Routledge, 2016.
An International History of Terrorism: Western and Non-‐Western Experiences.
Edited with Bernhard Blumenau. London: Routledge, 2013.
Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security. Edited with Georges-‐Henri Soutou and Basil Germond. London: Routledge, 2010.
Edited Special Journal Issues
Terrorism in Cold War Europe. Edited with Bernhard Blumenau. Contemporary European History. Forthcoming, 2017.
Beyond and Between the Cold War Blocs. Edited with Sandra Blott, Janick
Schaufelbuehl and Marco Wyss. The International History Review, 37:5, Fall 2015.
Suisse et guerre froide dans le tiers-‐monde. Guest edited issue with Sandra Blott, Janick Schaufelbuehl and Marco Wyss. Relations Internationales 163 (November-‐
December 2015).
Transatlantic Relations and the Cold War. Guest edited issue of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, March 2010.
UNHCR and the Global Cold War, 1971-‐1984. Guest edited issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly, 27:1 (January 2008).
Articles and Chapters
“United States: Indispensable No More?” In Conflict or Convergence: The Challenges of Foreign Policy in A Globalized World. Edited by Federiga Bindi.
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2016 (forthcoming).
“Nonaligned to What? European Neutrality and the Cold War.” In Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War. Edited by Sandra Blott, Jussi Hanhimäki, Janick Schaufelbuehl and Marco Wyss. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 17-‐32.
“Le rôle international de la Suisse dans la Guerre froide globale : un équilibre précaire.” With Sandra Blott, Janick Schaufelbuehl and Marco Wyss. Relations Internationales 163 (November-‐December 2015). Pp. 3-‐14.
“Non-‐Alignment, the Third Force, or Fence-‐Sitting: Independent Pathways in the Cold War.” With Sandra Bott, Janick Schaufelbuehl and Marco Wyss. The
International History Review, 37:5 (Fall 2015). Pp. 901-‐911.
“The Outsiders? Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.” In Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War, 1968-‐91. Edited by Steven Casey and Jonathan Wright. Houndsmills: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 24-‐41.
“Conflits et communauté: la relation transatlantique pendant la Guerre froide (et au-‐delà).” In Relations transatlantiques face aux defies du monde global. Edited by Gilles Grin, Régis Clavé and Françoise Nicod. Paris: Economica, 2015. Pp. 63-‐80.
“The (Really) Good War? Cold War Nostalgia and American Foreign Policy.” Cold War History 14: 4 (November 2014). Pp. 673-‐684.
“Henry Kissinger.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History. Ed. by Paul Boyer and Timothy Lynch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Between Primacy and Decline: America’s Role in the Post-‐Cold War World.” In International Relations Since the End of the Cold War. Edited by Geir Lundestad.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 191-‐208.
“Détente.” Chapter 25 in The Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History, ed. by Robert McMahon and Thomas Zeiler. Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2012.Pp. 371-‐382.
“Obaman jatkoaika.” Ulkopolitiikka 4/2012 (Winter 2012), pp. 15-‐17.
“Henry Kissinger: Vision or Status Quo?” In Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-‐1990, ed. By Frederic Bozo, Marie-‐Pierre Rey, Piers N. Ludlow and Bernd Rother. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. 193-‐207.
“Europe’s Cold War.” In The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History, ed. by Dan Stone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 283-‐298.
“Les Etats-‐Unis et le multilatéralisme depuis le 11 septembre.” Politique Etrangère 3: 2011. Pp. 507-‐519.
“Foreign Policy Overview.” In Companion to Richard Nixon. Ed. By Melvin Small.
New York: Wiley-‐Blackwell, 2011. Pp. 345-‐361.
“The Obama Administration and Transatlantic Security: Problems and
Prospects.” In Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security. Edited by and Basil Germond, Jussi Hanhimäki and Georges-‐Henri Soutou. London: Routledge, 2010.
Pp. 273-‐286.
“Détente in Europe, 1962-‐1975.” In Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume II. Edited by Mel Leffler and Odd Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. Pp. 198-‐218.
“Kissinger, gli Stati Uniti e il colpo di Stato cileno.” In L’America Latina tra Guerra Fredda e Globalizzazione, ed. by Massimiliano Cricco, Maria Eleonora Guasconi and Matteo Luigi Napoletano. Firenze: Polistampa, 2010. Pp. 35-‐44.
"Kissinger and Europe: Balancing Integration and Autonomy," in America, Europe, Africa/L'Amerique, l'Europe, l'Afrique 1945-‐1973, Eric Remacle &
Pascaline Winand (eds.), 2009. Pp. 169-‐186.
“Obama-‐OTAN: une nouvelle alliance transatlantique?” Le Temps 21 April 2009.
"UNHCR and the Decolonization in Africa. Expansion and Emancipation, 1950s to 1970s," in Dekolonisation: Prozesse und Verflechtungen 1945-‐1990, 2009. Pp.
53-‐72.
”Reif für die Rente? Wie sich die Vereinten Nationen für das 21. Jahrhundert rüsten sollten.” Internationale Politik 2 (February 2009). Pp. 72-‐79.
“Ripe for Retirement? The United Nations in the 21st Century.” Internationale Politik (Global Edition) 10: 1 (Spring 2009). Pp. 72-‐78.
”Obaman doktriini: Kaunista sanahelinää vai konkreettisia muutoksia?“ Suomi-‐
USA/Finland-‐USA, 1/2009. Pp. 15-‐19.
“Obaman ulkopoliittinen työlista.” Ulkopolitiikka 4/2008 (Winter 2008). Pp. 22-‐
29.
“Conservative Goals, Revolutionary Outcomes: the Paradox of Détente.” Cold War History 8: 4 (November 2008). Pp. 503-‐513.
“La négociation dans les combats : la conférence de Paris et la fin de la Guerre du Vietnam.” Relations Internationales 135 (Winter 2008). Pp. 53-‐72.
“A Troubled Partnership? The Transatlantic Relationship from the Cold War to the 21st Century.” In L'Union européenne: passé, présent, avenir. Edited by André Liebich and Basil Germond. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2008. Pp.
179-‐188.
“Détente.” In Encyclopedia of the Cold War, ed. by Ruud van Diijk. London:
Routledge, 2008. Pp. 250-‐254,
“Finlandization.” In Encyclopedia of the Cold War, ed. by Ruud van Diijk. London:
Routledge, 2008. Pp. 319-‐321.
“The Ambiguous Henry Kissinger: Professor, Policymaker, Historian.” In The Cold War and the Politics of History. Ed. by Juhana Aunesluoma & Pauli Kettunen.
Helsinki: Edita Publishing Ltd, 2008. Pp. 319-‐334.
“Introduction: UNHCR and the Global Cold War.” Refugee Survey Quarterly 27:1 (January 2008). Pp. 1-‐8.
“An Elusive Grand Design.” Nixon in the World: American Foreign Policy, 1969-‐
1977. Ed. by Andrew Preston and Fred Logevall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. . Pp. 25-‐44.
”Bushin hankala perintö.” Ulkopolitiikka (Finland) 44:4 (December 2007). 13-‐17.
“The U.S. Viewpoint.” In Ostpolitik/Westpolitik: European Integration and the Cold War. Edited by Piers Ludlow. London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 152-‐173.
“Faut-‐il avoir peur de Vladimir Poutine? ” Tribune de Geneve, 5 Juin 2007.
“George W. Bush et l'ONU.” Relations Internationales 126 (Winter 2006). Pp. 25-‐
36.
“Finland and the Lure of Neutrality, 1953-‐1958.” In The Cold War After Stalin’s Death: A New International History. Edited by Klaus Larres and Kenneth A.
Osgood. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 257-‐276.
“National Security and National Interests.” In Advances in Cold War History.
Edited by Saki Dockrill and Geraint Hughes. New York: Palgrave, 2006. Pp. 52-‐
72.
“The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.” (with Laurence Desvignes). In A Study of the Role of Survey in Mine Action. Geneva: Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining, 2006. Pp. 49-‐84.
“Syndrooma nimeltä Irak.” Ulkopolitiikka 43: 1 (March 2006). Pp. 48-‐53.
“Un temps d’adaptation : Les Etats-‐Unis et la globalisation dans les années soixante et soixante-‐dix.” Relations Internationales 124 (Winter 2005). Pp. 83-‐
94.
“George Frost Kennan, 1904-‐2005: USA:n ulkopolitiikan realistinen omatunto.”
Ulkopolitiikka 42: 2 (June 2005). Pp. 71-‐76.
“USA ja imperialismin viimeiset kiusaukset.” Ulkopolitiikka (Finland) 41: 4 (December 2004). Pp. 24-‐29.
“Kissinger et l'Europe: entre intégration et autonomie.” Relations Internationales 119 (Spring 2004). Pp. 319-‐332.
“Diplomatia ensin – Henry Kissingerin kiistelty perintö.” Ulkopolitiikka (Finland) 40 (December 2003). Pp. 62-‐68.
“ ‘Dr. Kissinger’ or ‘Mr. Henry’? Kissingerology, Thirty Years and Counting.”
Diplomatic History 27:5 (November 2003). Pp. 637-‐676.
“Global Visions and Parochial Politics: the Persistent Paradox of the ‘American Century.’” 2002 Bernath lecture. Diplomatic History 27: 4 (September 2003). Pp.
423 -‐ 447.
“Selling the ‘Decent Interval’: Henry Kissinger, Triangular Diplomacy, and the End of the Vietnam War, 1971-‐1973.” Diplomacy & Statecraft 14:1 (March 2003).
Pp. 159 -‐ 194.
“ ‘They Can Write it in Swahili’: Kissinger, the Soviets, and the Helsinki Accords, 1973 -‐ 1975.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 1:1 (Spring 2003). Pp. 37-‐58.
"Some More 'Smoking Guns'? The Vietnam War and Kissinger's Summitry with Moscow and Beijing, 1971-‐72." SHAFR Newsletter 32:4 (December 2001). Pp. 4-‐
12.
"A Prize-‐Winning Performance? Henry Kissinger, Triangular Diplomacy, and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-‐1973." Norwegian Nobel Institute Series, no. 7.
Oslo: Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2001.
" 'The Number One Reason': McCarthy, Eisenhower, and the Decline of American Prestige in Britain, 1952-‐1954." In Anglo-‐American Relations in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jonathan Hollowell. London: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. 104-‐123.
"Ironies and Turning Points: Détente in Perspective." In Reviewing the Cold War:
Approaches, Interpretations, Theory. Edited by Odd Arne Westad. London: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. 326-‐342.
“Security and Identity: the Nordic Countries and the United States.” In No End to Alliance. The United States and Western Europe: Past, Present and Future. Nobel Symposium 105. Edited by Geir Lundestad. London: Macmillan, 1998. Pp. 81-‐
111.
“Atlantin yhteys: USA ja Eurooppa Marshall avusta NATO:n laajennukseen.”
Ulkopolitiikka (Finland) 35:2 (1998). Pp. 9-‐19.
“ ‘We Are Not Czechs’: Finland and the ‘Spring Crisis’ of 1948 in Comparative Perspective.” In Charting an Independent Course: Finland’s Place in the Cold War and in U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by Michael T. Ruddy. New York: Regina, 1998.
Pp. 91-‐128.
“Common Foreign and Security Policy.” In The Future of Europe: Problems and Issues for the Twenty-‐First Century. Edited by Valerie Symes, Carl Levy and Jane Littlewood. London: Macmillan, 1997. Pp. 104-‐126.
“The First Line of Defense or a Springboard for Disintegration: the European Neutrals in American Foreign and Security Policy, 1945-‐1961.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 7:2 (July 1996). Pp. 378-‐403.
“In Search of Security: Finland and the Soviet-‐American Confrontation, 1945-‐
1961.” Scandinavian-‐Canadian Studies/Etudes Scandinaves au Canada 8 (1995).
Pp. 1-‐19.
“Self-‐Restraint as Containment: United States’ Economic Policy, Finland, and the Soviet Union, 1945-‐1953.” The International History Review 17:2 (May 1995).
Pp. 221-‐240. Amerikkalainen Machiavelli: Henry Kissinger.” Kanava 23:1 (January 1995). Pp. 89 -‐ 93.
“ ‘Containment’ in a Borderland: The United States and Finland, 1948-‐1949.”
Diplomatic History XVIII:3 (Summer 1994). Pp. 353-‐373.
“NAFTA:n haasteet ja lupaukset.” Kanava (Finland) 23:3 (March 1994). Pp. 167-‐
170.
“Containment, Coexistence and Neutrality: the Return of the Porkkala Naval Base as an Issue in Soviet-‐American Relations.” The Scandinavian Journal of History 18: 3 (Fall 1993). Pp. 217-‐228.
“Imagojen taistelua. Vuoden 1992 presidentinvaalit USA:ssa.” Kanava (Finland) 21:5 (June/July 1992). Pp. 306-‐310.
“Quebec ja Kanadan yhtenäisyys.” Kanava (Finland) 19:6 (August 1991). Pp.
344-‐347.
“The United States and the Finnish Revolution, 1917-‐1918.” The Maryland Historian 20:1 (Spring/Summer 1989). Pp. 25-‐46.
Book Reviews in
American Historical Review Cold War History
Columbia Magazine Diplomatic History Fletcher Forum H-‐Diplo
Intelligence & National Security Journal of American History
Journal of European Integration History Kanava
Millennium
The International History Review
Review of Slavonic & East European Studies Ulkopolitiikka
BOOK SERIES EDITOR
New Perspectives on the Cold War. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, since 2015. First volumes scheduled for publication in late 2016.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS IN JOURNALS
Cold War History, 2000-‐
Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2008-‐
Relations Internationales, 2007-‐
Ulkopolitiikka (Finland), 2007-‐2010
Diplomatic History, 2004-‐2007
SUMMARY OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2000-‐2014
Graduate Courses:
• History and International Affairs
• Transatlantic Relations in the Twentieth Century
• League of Nations and the United Nations: A Parallel History
• Historiography of International Relations
• The Cold War World, 1945-‐1991
• The Rise and Fall of Détente
• Global Visions and Parochial Politics: US Foreign Policy since 1945
• The Vietnam War as International History
• Doctoral Seminar in International History
• Research Workshop for MA students in International History
Undergraduate Courses:
• From Colony to Superpower: the United States and the World Since 1776
• The Long Cold War: United States and Radical Revolutions, 1917-‐1991
Supervision of 3-‐6 MA theses annually, total ca. 60 (further information available upon request)
Supervision of Ph.D. theses: 13 defended since 2005; 6 ongoing (further information available upon request)
London School of Economics and Political Science, 1995-‐2000
Undergraduate Courses:
• Henry Kissinger and the Crisis of American Foreign Policy
• United States and the Vietnam War
Selected lectures in undergraduate survey courses on: World History Since 1917
• The United States and the Non-‐European World
• The European Civil War
Graduate Courses:
• The Cold War World, 1945-‐1991
• Crisis of Hegemony: American Foreign Policy from Kennedy to Ford, 1961-‐1977
Supervision of 4-‐6 MSc theses annually
Bishop’s University, 1992-‐1993
Undergraduate Courses:
• United States in the Twentieth Century
• Comparative North American Civilizations
• The Origins and Conduct of World War II
• United States and the Origins of the Cold War
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(Over a hundred presentations at international conferences since 1989; a full list available upon request)
“Using History to Understand the Past,” (panelist) University of Helsinki, May 18, 2016.
“Uses and Abuses of History: The Power of the Past,” (panelist) Geneva Center for Security Policy, May 11, 2016.
“Henry Kissinger – Debating His Legacy in the 21st Century.” LSE IDEAS, January 15, 2015.
“Soviet Oil Offensive and Western Reactions.” University of Zurich, January 14, 2015.
“Between the Blocs: Neutrality, Non-‐Alignment, and the Cold War.” Key Note lecture at the conference on The Role of the Neutrals and the Non-‐Aligned in the Global Cold War, 1949-‐1989. University of Lausanne, March 13, 2014.
“Re-‐evaluating the legacy of Henry Kissinger: Statesman or Stuntman?”
Europaeum Lecture, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, February 19, 2014.
“Reassessing the End of the Cold War.” Conference on Reimagining Futures in the European North at the End of the Cold War, University of Tampere, Finland, January 30, 2014.
“National Priorities and International Obligations: Refugees and the Limits of International Humanitarianism.” Conference on the History of Internationalism, Jesus College, Oxford University, January 25, 2014.
“The Global Power of Parochial Politics.” Munk School (University of Toronto) – SIS (American University) – LSE IDEAS Conference on US Foreign Policy in International Perspective. London, November 12, 2013.
“Détente as a Cause of Contention and Controversy in US Politics.” Conference on The Origins and Impact of Détente: International Relations and Internal Debates in the Global 1970s , April 19-‐20, 2013, Muenster, Germany.
“Europe’s Transnational Cold War.” Key Note Lecture for the NORCENCOWAR Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 10, 2012.
“911 in Perspective.” The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, September 15, 2011. “Containment Envy and the Spectre of Decline: U.S. Foreign Policy Since the end of the Cold War.” Nobel Symposium. Lofoten Islands, Norway, June 21, 2011.
“Beyond the Cold War: Transatlantic Relations since the fall of the Berlin Wall,”
Tampere University Summer school key note lecture, Varala, Finland, June 3, 2010.
“President Obama's New Multilateralism and Europe: The First Year and Beyond", guest lecture, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, January 22, 2010.
"Obama and Transatlantic Relations: One Year On", Finland Distinguished Professor Annual Lecture, Tampere University, Finland, January 21, 2010.
“United Nations: Challenges of the 21st Century,” School for International Training, Geneva, 20 November, 2009.
"UNHCR and the Globalization of the Cold War", key note lecture at the conference on Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary History:
Americanization, Cold War, and Foreign Aid, 16 – 20 August 2009, Aarhus, Denmark.
“US -‐ EU Strategic Partnership", symposium at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, June 8, 2009.
"Exceptional, Never Central: The Evolution of Finnish-‐American Relations."
Conference to celebrate 90 years of Finnish-‐American Diplomatic Relations, 6 May 2009.
"The New American Administration and Transatlantic Security" a paper presented at the Conference Transatlantic Relations from the Cold War to the Twenty-‐First Century, Geneva, April 23-‐24, 2009.
“The Obama Doctrine”, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, December 11, 2008.
"A Historical Approach to the UN Charter”, session at the 63rd anniversary conference on the UN Charter, Geneva International Model UN and UN Office in Geneva, October 24, 2008.
"Henry Kissinger and the End of the Cold War.” Paris, Sorbonne, June 13, 2008.
“La négociation dans les combats : la conférence de Paris et la fin de la Guerre du Vietnam.” Geneva, May 17, 2008.
Closing Roundtable on "Transatlantic Relations and the Cold War” as part of a conference “Conflict and Community,” May 14, 2008.
“Clinton, Obama or McCain.” Public lecture at Café Scientifique, Centre Culturel Français a Helsinki, Helsinki, 17 April, 2008.
“External Aspects of Schengen and Dublin.” Roundtable at a conference on Shared Foreign Policy Interests between the EU and Switzerland. Geneva, March 14, 2008.
“Refugees and the Cold War.” International History Seminar, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, UK. February 20, 2008.
“USA:n presidentinvaalit ja transatlanttiset suhteet.” [US presidential elections and transatlantic relations] Academy of Finland, Helsinki, February 1, 2008.
“A Troubled Partnership? Reflections on the Transatlantic Relationship from the Cold War to the 21st Century.” Finland Distinguished Professor Program,
Inaugural Lecture, September 5, 2007.
“Henry Kissinger: Cold War Villain, International War Criminal, or Conventional Cold War Statesman?” Roundtable discussion. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), annual conference. Washington, DC, June 23, 2007.
“Kylmän sodan paradigmat.” [Cold War paradigms] Historiatieteiden
tutkijakoulun IX jatkokoulutuskonferenssi, Tampereen yliopisto, May 28, 2007.
’A War Criminal or the Prince of Realpolitik? Re-‐evaluating Henry Kissinger.’
Modern History Seminar, St. Andrews University, February 28, 2007.
"The Search for a Grand Design." Mershon Center, Ohio State University, December 1, 2006.
“Kissinger and the Chilean Coup,” University of Bologna (Forli Center), November 17, 2006.
“Détente in Europe, 1962-‐1975,” Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, TX, September 15, 2006.
“The Unexpected Consequences of Detente.” Conference on “Détente,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 19-‐21, 2005.
“ ‘It isn’t Something I’m Proud Of’: Henry Kissinger and the Helsinki Process.”
Conference on “At the Roots of the European Security System: Thirty Years Since the Helsinki Final Act,” Zurich, September 8-‐10, 2005.
“Un temps d’adaptation : Les Etats-‐Unis et la globalisation dans les années soixante et soixante-‐dix.” Conference on “Les 3 mondialisations” organized by the journal Relations Internationales, Paris, June 4, 2005.
“Why did the Cold War End.” Panel Discussion with Mikhail Gorbachev and others to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Reagan-‐Gorbachev Summit in Geneva. Geneva, May 31, 2005.
“Values and Interests in American Foreign Policy.” Key note lecture at the North American Studies Conference, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, May 20, 2005.
“The Cold War and European Integration: the U.S. Viewpoint.” Conference on
“Ostpolitik/Westpolitik: Exploring the Linkages between European Integration and the Cold War,” organized by Pembroke College and the LSE Cold War Studies Center. Oxford, September 22-‐24, 2004.
“Henry Kissinger and US Foreign Policy in an Era of Transition.” The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), annual conference. Austin, Texas, June 25, 2004.
“Kissinger et l’Europe.” Conference on “Les Relations transatlantiques,
convergences et divergences de 1945 a 2004” organized by the journal Relations Internationales. Geneva, June 4-‐5, 2004.
“1989: The Year of Miracles in Retrospect.” Keynote Lecture at the Symposium on “1989” organized by the Project on the European Dimension in History Teaching, European Council. Budapest, April 28-‐May 2, 2004.
"Transatlantic Relations in the World System: From the 20th to the 21st
Century." Conference on Transatlantic Relations Organized by the Luxembourg Group. Schengen, Luxembourg, October 24-‐25, 2003.
"Transatlantic Relations during the Nixon-‐Ford-‐Kissinger Years." Library of Congress, Washington, DC, June 18, 2003.
“Re-‐evaluating Kissinger.” Cold War International History Project Seminar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, April 15, 2003.
"Henry Kissinger, Triangular Diplomacy, and Regional Conflict." International Security Studies Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 9, 2003.
“Global Visions and Parochial Politics: the Persistent Paradox of the ‘American Century.’” Bernath lecture for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Organization of American Historians, 2003 Annual Conference, Memphis, TN, April 5, 2003.
“Post-‐9/11 Visions of America and Europe.” Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, March 31, 2003.
" 'It Could be Written in Swahili': Kissinger and the CSCE." Transatlantic Studies Conference, University of Dundee, Dundee, July 9, 2002.
"Kissingerology Redux." Center for Security and Conflict Research, Zurich, July 5, 2001.
"All Diplomacy is Local." The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), annual conference. American University, Washington, DC, June 14, 2001. "Henry Kissinger and the Limits of Triangular Diplomacy." King's College, London, December 11, 1999.
"The Limits and Advantages of Neutrality: Comparing the Austrian and Finnish Cases." University of Helsinki, Helsinki, October 20, 1999.
" 'The Best Friend of Communism': Western European Reactions to
McCarthyism." Organization of American Historians, Toronto, April 25, 1999.
“A Culture Clash? ‘Americanization’ vs, the ‘Middle Way’ in Cold War
Scandinavia.” Conference on the Nordic Countries and the Cold War, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, June 26, 1998.
“Ironies and Turning Points: Détente in Perspective.” Nobel Symposium, Oslo, June 17 -‐ 20, 1998.
“The United States and Europe.” Roundtable with Linda B. Miller and Carl Hodge.
Carnegie Council Faculty Development Seminar on “Great Power Responsibility in World Affairs.” Boston University, April 30 – May 2, 1998
“Finland’s Role in U.S. Policy During the Early Cold War.” Nordic International Studies Association, Copenhagen, March 6, 1998.
“American Foreign Policy and European Neutrality in the Cold War.” King’s College, Department of War Studies, Cold War Seminar Series. February 5, 1998.
“Whose Neutrals? European Neutrals in American Foreign and Security Policy, 1945-‐ 61.” The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Georgetown University, June 15, 1997.
“American Foreign Policy, NATO, and the Specter of Neutralism in Western Europe, 1949-‐69.” Norwegian Nobel Institute, June 6, 1997. Oslo, Norway.
“Security and Identity: Scandinavia and the United States Since 1945.” Nobel Symposium, April 9-‐12, 1997. Oslo, Norway.
“European Reactions to McCarthyism.” Anglo-‐American Seminar, February 11, 1997. London School of Economics.
“The Finnish Exception and the Cold War, 1945-‐1991.” The Finnish Institute in London. December 11, 1996.
“The Western Alliance, European Neutrals and American Foreign Policy.” New England Historical Association (NEHA), Fall 1994 Conference, Hartford
University, October 22, 1994.
“Between East and West: Finland in Soviet-‐American Relations.” Contemporary History Institute Seminar Series, Ohio University, October 13, 1994.
“The United States and the Finnish Solution of 1948 in Comparative Perspective.”
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Bentley College, June 25, 1994.
“In Search for Security: Finland and the Soviet-‐American Confrontation, 1945-‐
1956.” The annual meeting of the Association of the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC). Calgary, Alberta, June 10, 1994.
“Midwives to Détente: European Neutrals and the Relaxation of Soviet-‐American Tensions.” Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, April 13, 1994.
“Realpolitik and Threat Perceptions: American Security Policy and Finno-‐Soviet Relations, 1944-‐1956.” International History Seminar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, April 4, 1994.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Member of the Research and Ethics Committee, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, since 2016
Member of the Standing Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, since 2013
Member of the Steering Committee, Program for the Study of International Governance (PSIG), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, since 2012
Member of the Steering Committee, Center for the Study of Global Migration (CSGM), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, since 2012
Director, Program for the Study of Global Migration (PSGM), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2008-‐2012
Chair, Department of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2008-‐11
Member of the Steering Committee, Program for Strategic and International Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2001-‐2007
Warden, Butler’s Wharf Residence, LSE, 1998-‐2000
Warden, Rosebery Hall, LSE, 1995-‐1998
Member of the Research Planning Committee, LSE, 1999-‐2000
Tutor, MA/MSc Program in the Theory and History of International Relations, LSE, 1997-‐2000
Faculty member, Nordic Academic Exchange Committee, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1997-‐2000
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
External expert of a faculty search committee at the University of Geneva, 2011-‐
2012
Member of several faculty search committees at the Graduate Institute, 2004-‐
2016
Frequent commentator for media in Switzerland, the UK and Finland, 1994-‐
Occasional consultant to the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, 2004-‐2005
External evaluator for hiring, tenure and promotion reviews for universities in Austria, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States
Member of the Evaluation Committee of a five-‐year research program “Power in Finland” for the Academy of Finland, 2011
Examiner of PhD theses for numerous Finnish and European universities, 2004-‐
2016 (Oxford, LSE, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tampere, Jyväskylä)
Examiner of research proposals for the Academy of Finland, 2002, 2006
Examiner of research proposals for Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (The Finnish Cultural Foundation), 2011
Reviewer of manuscripts and book proposals for several publishers (Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave-‐Macmillan, Berghahn)
Member of the steering committee, Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH), 2006-‐2012
Organized several international conferences in Finland, Iceland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom since 1997
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English, Finnish (native), French, German, Swedish
