Pami Aalto

Professorial Fellow
1 August 2013–31 December 2014

(On leave of absence from Jean Monnet Chair, School of Management, in International Relations,
specifically in the area of European integration and regional co-operation)

Office: Atalpa 309
Tel. +358 (0)50 318 5952
Email: pami.aalto@uta.fi

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research interests

Energy policy, interdisciplinarity, geopolitics, methodology; international society, Russia, EU-Russia relations, northern Europe

Projects

  • International Energy Politics: a New Framework for Analysis (Foundations’ Professor Pool, 2013—14)
  • Energy Policy in European Integration (Academy of Finland 2011–14)
  • Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies ‘Choices Of Russian Modernisation’ (Academy of Finland, 2012–17), team leader of the ‘Diversification of the Economy’ research cluster
  • FASTPASS – A Harmonized, Modular Reference System for all European Automatic Border Crossing Points (EU Framework Programme 7 coordinated by Austrian Institute of Technology, 2013—16), team leader at UTA

Main publications

(2012, ed.) Russia’s Energy Policies: National, Interregional and Global Levels. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

(2012, ed. with V. Harle and S. Moisio) Global and Regional Problems: towards Interdisciplinary Study. Farnham: Ashgate.

(2011, ed. with V. Harle and S. Moisio) International Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

(2008, ed. with H. Blakkisrud and H. Smith) The New Northern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies.

(2007, ed.) The EU-Russian Energy Dialogue: Europe’s Future Energy Security. Aldershot: Ashgate.

(2006) European Union and the Making of a Wider Northern Europe. London: Routledge.

(2003) Constructing Post-Soviet Geopolitics in Estonia. London: Frank Cass.

(2003, ed. with S. Dalby and V. Harle) ‘The Critical Geopolitics of Northern Europe: Identity Politics Unlimited’, special issue of Geopolitics 8(1).

(2001) Constructing Post-Soviet Geopolitics in Estonia: A Study in Security, Identity and Subjectivity. Helsinki: Department of Political Science (Acta Politica 19), University of Helsinki.

Articles published or accepted for publication for example in Cooperation and Conflict, Geopolitics, International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Peace Research and Space and Polity, as well as in numerous edited volumes.

>> Complete list of publications (.pdf)


Other

Chairman of the Union of Professors, University of Tampere

Associate of the Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Helsinki