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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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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

@slsalo.bsky.social, @jensrydgren.bsky.social and I investigate how the Swedish labour movement responded to the rise of the radical right-wing party (RRP) the Sweden Democrats (SD) between 2007 and 2018?

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Government and Opposition @govandopp.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

New on #FirstView - "Justifying and Negotiating Responses to the Radical Right: The Case of the Swedish Labour Movement and the Intra-Organizational Arena" - shorturl.at/gh3qc by @slsalo.bsky.social, @jensrydgren.bsky.social & @podmalm.bsky.social

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 24/04/2025

"EU-instituutioiden tarkoitus on rakentaa samanarvoisten kumppanien yhteisöä, joka ylittää kansallismielisen kilvoittelun, takaa rauhan jäsenmaiden kesken sekä tavoittelee demokratiaa ja kansalaisoikeuksia ylikansallisella tasolla." @slsalo.bsky.social:n ja minun #Vieraskynä @hs.fi:ssa tänään

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Vieraskynä | Yhdysvaltojen vetäytyminen on uhka, joka avaa Euroopalle uusia mahdollisuuksia

Arvojensa mukaisesti EU voi edistää poliittista vakautta Euroopassa ja liberaalia maailmanjärjestystä koko maailmassa.

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katsery.bsky.social @katsery.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

KATSE järjestää tiistaina 22.4 klo 17:30 – 18:30 keskustelutilaisuuden Arktinen alue geopolitiikan näyttämönä? Tieteiden Talolla (Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki, 5 krs). Alustamassa UPI:n ohjelmajohtaja Harri Mikkola. Ilmoittaudu 18.4 mennessä osoitteeseen sanna.salo@fiia.fi!

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Kansainvälisen politiikan tutkimuksen seura KATSE Ry järjestää ti 22.4 klo 17:30 – 18:30 keskustelutilaisuuden Arktinen alue geopolitiikan näyttämönä? Tieteiden Talolla Helsingissä. Alustamassa UPI:n ohjelmajohtaja Harri Mikkola. Ilmoittaudu 18.4 mennessä osoitteeseen sanna.salo@fiia.fi!

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

In all major cities, the SDP gained approximately as much as the Finns Party lost. This is of course preliminary, but it seems that the Finns Party lost voters precisely to the Social Democrats.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

2) In contrast to many findings in recent political science literature, in Finland, as in Sweden, the radical right and the Social Democrats seem to genuinely share a part of the electorate.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I think this is worrying, as Finland threatens to lose some of the key strengths of its political system: most notably, the ability to compromise and make long-term policy that stretches beyond election terms and across the left-right divide

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Two takeaways from the Finnish municipal and regional elections: 1) Finland seems to be edging away from its traditional, consensus-democracy model and towards a more polarized system where power alternates between the Left and the Right from one election to the other.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Looks like Germany might go the Danish way: rightwards in immigration, leftwards (at least moderately) in socio-economics. Will this stem the far-right like it apparently did in Denmark? www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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Next German government agrees to radical toughening of migration policy

Center left and center right are trying to forge a deal to form a coalition. Important differences remain, according to documents seen by POLITICO.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Minulla ei ole minkäänlaista mielenkiintoa äänestää kunta- ja aluevaaleissa. Alueiden ja kuntien työnjako tuntuu hähmäiseltä. Mistä edes äänestäisin? Alueiden sote-rahoista? Mitä kunnille on jäänyt, mitä valintoja kunnat pystyvät tekemään? Tekikö alueuudistus demokratialle karhunpalveluksen?

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

”Europe must never again find itself in a position where the likes of US vice-president JD Vance have life-and-death power over it. All other priorities are secondary.” Janan Ganesh of the @financialtimes.com has an extraordinary skill of crystallizing the essential.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I think it has always been bubbling under. For example, in Swedish and Finnish Left parties, which hail from old communist parties, have had strong-American voices in them, but these have kept quiet, being in the margins in the past decades.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Vassals, curtseying, oaths of allegiance to the King. That’s what comes to mind when following Trump’s maneuvres. But hey, we Europeans should know how to do this. We did just the king thing for 1000 years, democracy only for the last 100.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I certainly would not define working class using income deciles. Perhaps self-identification or simply occupational category. Still, I think Sweden is an interesting case in this regard. See Bo Rothstein in Journal of Democracy: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE - The Shadow of the Swedish Right

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I think this varies between countries. Sweden is a case Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats have competed over working-class voters, as we argue in our WP: su.figshare.com/articles/pre... www.svt.se/datajournali...

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VALU: Väljarströmmar

Så har väljarna rört sig mellan partierna i valen 2018 och 2022 – interaktiv grafik över partibytare.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Ah, there already is a term for it, "the Great Capitulation", by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social .

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So far, the response of Europe's mainstream leaders to President Trump can be described with one word: shushing. I know a lot is at stake, but not having the courage to stand up and speak the truth about what we are dealing with looks like, well, cowardice.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I would like to see these kinds of analyses on the European Left, as well. (Maybe I should write one, on a second thought…) How the Democrats Lost the Working Class www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/u...

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How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind.

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Sanna Salo @slsalo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I think its outright interesting how Trump's election has already shifted the terms of debate about Ukraine - at least here in Finland. Suddenly everybody talks about compromise and the fact that peace negotiations is "what Ukrainians actually want", too. yle.fi/a/74-20127694

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Ilmari Käihkö: Suomessa on ylioptimistinen kuva Ukrainan mahdollisuuksista – nostaa esimerkiksi Sanna Marinin ”onelinerin”

Käihkön mukaan asiantuntijat, poliitikot ja media ovat osallisia liialliseen optimismiin, vaikka alun alkaen Ukrainan sotilaallista kykyä aliarvioitiin.

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Juha Jokela @juhajokela1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The research consortium is led by Professor Åsa von Schoultz, and key work packages are led by @ialsaikkonen.bsky.social, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Kimmo Elo ja @juhajokela1.bsky.social (FIIA) Sanna Salo, @sinikukka.bsky.social and Ville Sinkkonen form the project team of FIIA.

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Juha Jokela @juhajokela1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

📣 New project "The resilience of liberal democracy in Finland" by universities of @helsinkiuni.bsky.social, Eastern Finland, Turku, Åbo Akademi as well as FIIA. The project will examine the resilience of liberal democracy in Finland. ⤵️ www.fiia.fi/en/news/new-...

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New research consortium focuses on risks for liberal democracy | FIIA – Finnish Institute of International Affairs

The new project The resilience of liberal democracy in Finland (RESLIDE) was granted nearly 3 million euros of funding by the Strategic Research Council. The funding was rewarded to a research…

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Janne Tukiainen @jannetukiainen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Great funding news! In my work package, we will study the determinants of (e.g., geographic) inequalities in political participation and political and bureaucratic representation, their effects on economic policy, democratic norms and political responses, and how inequalities can be alleviated.

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