Professional Affiliation

Professor of International Relations, Tampere University, Finland

Expert Bio

A Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. Until summer 2018 he was the Secretary General and Chief of the Cabinet at the Office of the President of the Republic of Finland and Foreign Policy Adviser to the President. Previously he has held positions at the Universities of Turku and Tampere, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs as well as visiting positions at the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw), the EU Institute of Security Studies (Paris), the IISS (London) and the University of Stirling (Scotland). He is the author of numerous books and articles on EU foreign policy, Russia and International Relations. Dr. Haukkala is an accomplished public speaker who takes a growing interest in questions of bringing order and governance into increasingly turbulent world politics.

Personal homepage: http://www.hiskihaukkala.net/

Wilson Center Project

Stable, Able and Willing? Examining the Russian Challenge to the West

Project Summary

The project will seek to critically examine and discuss one of the mainstream underlying ideas in the Western policy vis-a-vis Russia, namely the inherent weakness of Russia as a state that is witnessing inexorable decline and even potential for a collapse. This idea, which seems to inform many of Western policy debates, will be examined in both absolute and relative terms. It will also be examined in light of Russia's ability and willingness to transgress some of its limitations through the concerted use of its national power in international affairs.

Major Publications

https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/The-European-Union-and-Russia/?K=9781137355331

• https://www.routledge.com/Trust-in-International-Relations-Rationalist-Constructivist-and-Psychological/Haukkala-van-de-Wetering-Vuorelma/p/book/9781138630086
• https://www.routledge.com/National-Perspectives-on-Russia-European-Foreign-Policy-in-the-Making/David-Gower-Haukkala/p/book/9780415538329