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RESLIDE — The resilience of liberal democracy in Finland @reslide.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

✒️ New RESLIDE blog on the US National Security Strategy and its implications for Europe is out, authored by @sinkkonenville.bsky.social & @slsalo.bsky.social ➡️ reslide.fi/en/much-ado-about-civilizations-donald-trumps-new-national-security-strategy-presents-an-ideological-challenge-for-europe/

A quote by Ville Sinkkonen, Leading Researcher, FIIA and Sanna Salo, Senior Research Fellow, FIIA: "The resilience of Europe’s democracy will be measured by its ability to prop up the security and socio-economic foundations of the European project."

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Finnish Institute of International Affairs @fiia.fi · 26/11/2025

📙 The event also marked the launch of the book Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Direction in an Age of Global Contestation, edited by @sinkkonenville.bsky.social, Veera Laine & Matti Puranen. Read more & get the book (partly open access) ⤵️ fiia.fi/en/publicati...

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Competing visions for international order: Challenges for a shared direction in an age of global contestation - FIIA - Finnish Institute of International Affairs

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Finnish Institute of International Affairs @fiia.fi · 26/11/2025

🌐 New conflicts are erupting, relations between great powers are becoming increasingly tense, and the old international order is coming apart. Today's seminar explored shifts in the international order by focusing on the ordering visions of the United States, China, India, Turkey, and Russia.

Toni Alaranta, Veera Laine, Bart Gaens, Tyyne Karjalainen, Teivo Teivainen, Ville Sinkkonen, and Matti Puranen on stage in front of FIIA roll-ups. Ville Sinkkonen talking into a microphone.

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Ville Sinkkonen @sinkkonenville.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thrilled to be part of this new volume published in @tepsa.bsky.social book series with a chapter on Finland with @nhelwig.bsky.social. A vital survival guide to the "new Trump era"!

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Kristi Raik @kristiraik.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Will Donald Trump divide and rule a Europe that is too weak to stand on its own feet? My take in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/e...

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Europe’s Four Different Ways of Handling Trump

From vacuous moralizers to pragmatic engagers, European governments are divided once again.

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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Read Niklas Helwig's new book "The EU High Representative: Foreign Policy Leadership in a Changing World" for an analytical approach to the role of EU High Representative since the Lisbon Treaty 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #PublicationOfTheDay📚 @fiia-upi.bsky.social

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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

#PublicationOfTheDay📚 👉 National sovereignty, economic nationalism, devolution, and the unmooring of power. 4️⃣ key lenses through which the new US administration should be viewed, argue @charlyjsp.bsky.social & @sinkkonenville.bsky.social from @fiia-upi.bsky.social 🔗 fiia.fi/en/publicati...

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Four lenses for observing the second term of Trump | FIIA

The new US administration aims to usher in a "Golden Age of America", with impacts on domestic politics and society, as well as foreign policy.

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Ville Sinkkonen @sinkkonenville.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

DAY 1. Trump's approach to international institutions could be summed up in two E's: exit and extortion. Nothing new here - 45 & 47 being true to form.

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Edward Hunter Christie @ehunterchristie.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

1-11 My summary of Trumps' inauguration speech: America and the world will get a lot of what it says on the tin: policies and actions rooted in nationalism and especially economic nationalism, with a big dose of cultural conservatism to please the old guard.

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Finnish Institute of International Affairs @fiia.fi · 16/01/2025

The 2nd Trump administration is likely to embrace disruption and chaos to achieve revolutionary rather than evolutionary change, @charlyjsp.bsky.social & Ville Sinkkonen say in a new FIIA Briefing Paper. They provide four lenses for observing the administration's strategy. ➡️ fiia.fi/en/publicati...

Citation from FIIA Briefing Paper by Charly Salonius-Pasternak and Ville Sinkkonen: "In terms of foreign policy, a reduced set of checks on Trump's power could have detrimental consequences in the global arena." Picture of Donald Trump speaking on a podium is on the right side of the quote.

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