BOOKS

• (2023) Nation Branding and International PoliticsLink opens in a new window (McGill Queen's University Press).
• (2021) Vicarious Identity in International Relations: Self, Security, and Status on the Global StageLink opens in a new window (Oxford University Press) with Pertti Joenniemi and Brent Steele.
• (2013) International Security: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).
• (2008) Constructivism, Narrative and Foreign Policy Analysis: A Case Study of Finland (Oxford: Peter Lang).

EDITED BOOKS

• (2025) Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for PeaceLink opens in a new window, eds, with Marko Lehti and Johan Strang (London: Routledge). (Available open accessLink opens in a new window).
• (2010) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy, eds. with Marko Lehti (London: Routledge).
• (2005) Remaking Europe in the Margins: Northern Europe after the Enlargements, ed.  (Aldershot: Ashgate).

EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES

• (2023) Art Diplomacy and Nation Branding in China, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10(3). (co-edited with Jenifer Chao).
• (2021) Humorous States: IR, New Diplomacy and the Rise of Comedy in Global Politics, Global Society 35(1), (co-edited with James Brassett and Alister Wedderburn).
• (2017) Nation Branding and Competitive Identity in World Politics, Geopolitics 22(3), (co-edited with Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira).
• (2004) Baltic Sea Politics, Cooperation and Conflict 39(3), (co-edited with Pertti Joenniemi).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• (forthcoming) 'Lettuce Rejoice in the Downfall of Liz Truss? Humour, Ontological (In)Security and the Politics of Ridicule', Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. With James Brassett.
• (2024) "'Russian warship, go fuck yourself': Humour and the (geo)political limits of vicarious war', Cooperation and Conflict 59(3), pp.311-36. With James Brassett. (Open accessLink opens in a new window).
• (2023) 'China's cautious "facetuning": The art of cultural diplomacy and nation branding', Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10(3), pp.255-65. With Jenifer Chao.
• (2023) 'Anxiety, Humour and (Geo)Politics: Warfare by Other Memes', International Relations 37(1), pp.172-9. With James Brassett. (Open accessLink opens in a new window).
• (2022) 'Hierarchies of Heroism: Captain Tom, Spitfires, and the Limits of Militarised Vicarious Resilience during the Global Pandemic', Global Studies Quarterly 2(3), (Open AccessLink opens in a new window)
• (2021) 'EU've Got to Be Kidding: Anxiety, Humour and Ontological Security', Global Society 35(1), pp.8-26. With James Brassett and Muireann O'Dwyer (https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2020.1828298).
• (2021) 'Humorous States: IR, New Diplomacy and the Rise of Comedy in Global Politics', Global Society 35(1), pp.1-7. With James Brassett and Alister Wedderburn (https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2020.1828302)
• (2019) 'Brexit Populism and Fantasies of Fulfilment', Cambridge Review of International Affairs 32(3), pp.222-44 (free eprint).
• (2018) 'Brexit, Existential Anxiety and Ontological (In)Security', European Security 27(3), pp.336-355.
• (2018) 'REF Impact and the Discipline of Politics and International Studies', British Politics 13(3), pp.249-69. With Chris Moran.
• (2018) 'Geostrategies, Geopolitics and Ontological Security in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The European Union and the "New Cold War"', Political Geography 62(1), pp.106-115.
• (2018) '"Je suis en terrasse": Political Violence, Civilisational Politics and the Everyday Courage to Be', Political Psychology 39(2), pp.243-61.
• (2017) 'Introduction: Nation Branding and Competitive Identity in World Politics', Geopolitics 22(3), pp. 481-501. With Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira. (free eprint).
• (2017) 'Reading Brand Africa Geopolitically: Nation-Branding, Subaltern Geopolitics and the Persistence of Politics', Geopolitics 22(3), pp.640-664. With Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira. (free eprint).
• (2017) 'Ontological Security, Self-Articulation and the Securitization of Identity', Cooperation and Conflict 52(1), pp.31-47. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2016) 'Nation Branding and Development: Poverty Panacea or Business as Usual?', Journal of International Relations and Development 19(1), pp.50-75.
• (2015) 'Nation Branding, National Self-Esteem and the Constitution of Subjectivity in Late Modernity', Foreign Policy Analysis 11(2), pp.195-214.
• (2013) 'From Fratricide to Security Community: Re-theorising Difference in the Constitution of Nordic Peace', Journal of International Relations and Development 16(4), pp.483-513. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2013) 'The Future of Critical Security Studies: Ethics and the Politics of Security', European Journal of International Relations 19(2), pp.235-55. With Matt McDonald.
• (2010) 'Experimenting in the Northern Laboratory: The Emergence of an EU Approach to Security Governance in the North and its Broader Significance', European Security 19(3), pp.395-411.
• (2010) 'The Constitutive Power of Outsiders: The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Dimension', Political Geography 29(2), pp.109-18. With George Christou.
• (2008) ‘Reassessing Putin's Project: Reflections on IR Theory and the West’, Problems of Post-Communism 55(5) (Sept/Oct), pp.3-13.
• (2008) ‘Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy’, European Journal of International Relations 14(3), pp.519-52. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2007) ‘Beyond East-West: Marginality and National Dignity in Finnish Identity Construction’, Nationalities Papers 35(4), pp.691-716. With Marko Lehti.
• (2007) ‘Branding Nordicity: Models, Identity and the Decline of Exceptionalism’, Cooperation and Conflict 42(1), pp.27-51.
• (2006) ‘Small, Smart and Salient? Rethinking Identity in the Small States Literature’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 19(4), pp.669-684.
• (2005) ‘”Ystävien piiri” Euroopan rajana – uuden naapuruuspolitiikan vaikutukset pohjoisessa’ [Europe Bordered by a “Ring of Friends”: On the Impact of the ENP in the North] Kosmopolis 35(3), pp.6-19. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2005) ‘Exporting Idealism? The Prospects of Baltic Sea Region Cooperation after Enlargement’, Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review 2004 (Vilnius: Lithuanian Military Academy) pp.85-97.
• (2004) ‘Contending Discourses of Marginality: The Case of Kaliningrad’, Geopolitics 9(3), pp.699-730. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2004) ‘Introduction: The Challenges of EU and NATO Enlargement’, Cooperation and Conflict 39(3), pp.227-231. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2004) ‘Regionality Beyond Security? The Baltic Sea Region after Enlargement’, Cooperation and Conflict 39(3), pp.233-253. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2003) ‘The European Union’s Two Dimensions: The Eastern and the Northern’, Security Dialogue 34(4), pp.463-479. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2003) ‘The Internal/External Security Paradox and the Reconstruction of Boundaries in the Baltic: The Case of Kaliningrad’, Alternatives 28(5), pp.545-581.
• (2003) ‘Complementarities and Differences in EU and US Policies in Northern Europe’, Journal of International Relations and Development 6(1), pp.23-50.
• (2003) ‘The Region-Building Approach Revisited: The Continued Othering of Russia in Discourses of Region-Building in the European North’, Geopolitics 8(1), pp.45-71.
• (2002) ’Lännen ja Venäjän suhteet lämpenevät: Pohjoinen ulottuvuus syyskuun 11. päivän terrori-iskujen jälkeen’, Ulkopolitiikka 2/2002, pp.33-40.
• (2002) ‘Coming Home or Moving Home? “Westernising” Narratives in Finnish Foreign Policy and the Re-interpretation of Past Identities’, Cooperation and Conflict 37(1), pp.47-72.
• (2001) ‘A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Regional Cooperation: The United States and the Northern European Initiative’, European Security10(4), pp.84-108.

   

BOOK CHAPTERS

• (2025) 'Nordic Peace: Identity, Brand, Branding', in Christopher S. Browning, Johan Strang and Marko Lehti (eds.) Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace Link opens in a new window(London: Routledge) pp.19-37.
• (2025) 'Nordic Peace Revisited', in Christopher S. Browning, Johan Strang and Marko Lehti (eds.) Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace Link opens in a new window(London: Routledge) pp.1-16, with Johan Strang and Marko Lehti.
• (2021) 'Fantasy, Distinction, Shame: The Stickiness of the Nordic "Good State" Brand', in Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée and Kristian Bjørkdahl (eds.) Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the Twenty-First CenturyLink opens in a new window (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp.14-37.
• (2018) 'The Construction and Deconstruction of the EU's Neighbourhood', in Tobias Schumacher, Andreas Marchetti and Thomas Demmelhuber (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood PolicyLink opens in a new window (London and New York: Routledge) pp.119-29.
• (2017) ‘Security and Migration: A Conceptual Exploration’, in Philippe Bourbeau (ed.) Handbook on Migration and Security (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) pp.39-59.
• (2016) 'Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy', reprinted in Ben Tonra, Richard Whitman and Alasdair Young (eds.) Foreign Policy of the European Union. Volume Three: Core Foreign Policies (SAGE Publications).
• (2016) 'Ethics and Ontological Security', in Jonna Nyman and Anthony Burke (eds.) Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda (London and New York: Routledge) pp.160-73.
• (2015) 'Small-State Identities: Promotions Past and Present', in Louis Clerc, Nikolas Glover and Paul Jordan (eds.) Histories of Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: Representing the Periphery (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff) pp.282-300.
• (2015) 'The Ontological Significance of Karelia: Finland's Reconciliation with Losing the Promised Land', in Bahar Rumelili (ed.) Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security: Peace Anxieties (Routledge). With Pertti Joenniemi, pp.154-71.
• (2014) 'The Hidden Opportunities within Finland's Country Brand', in Ville Sinkkonen and Henri Vogt (eds.) Utopia Ulkopolitiikassa: Sarja Visioita Suomen Asemasta Maailmassa [Foreign Policy Utopias: Visions of Finland's Position in the World] (Jyväskylä: Ulkoasiainministeriö) pp.53-63.
• (2013) 'The Region-Building Approach Revisited: The Continued Othering of Russia in Region-Building in the European North', reprinted in Geir Hønneland (ed.) The Politics of the Arctic (Edward Elgar)
• (2011) 'Geographic Centrality and Marginality: East, West and North in Finnish Symbolic Geography', in Alexander Maxwell (ed.) The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences (Oxford: Peter Lang). With Marko Lehti, pp.155-68.
• (2010) 'Introduction: New Tensions in a Troubled Partnership', in Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti (eds.) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested LegacyLink opens in a new window (London: Routledge). With Marko Lehti, pp.1-11.
• (2010) 'The West: Contested, Narrated and Clustered', in Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti (eds.) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested LegacyLink opens in a new window (London: Routledge). With Marko Lehti, pp.15-32.
• (2010) 'Beyond the West and Towards the Anglosphere?', in Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti (eds.) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested LegacyLink opens in a new window (London: Routledge). With Ben Tonra, pp.161-181.
• (2010) 'Conclusion: The Resilient West?', in Christopher S. Browning and Marko Lehti (eds.) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested LegacyLink opens in a new window (London: Routledge). pp.218-229.
• (2008) ‘Gibraltar, Jerusalem, Kaliningrad: Peripherality, Marginality, Hybridity’, Noel Parker (ed.) The Geopolitics of Europe's Identity: Centers, Boundaries, and Margins (PalgraveMacmillan). With Pertti Joenniemi, pp.141-58.
• (2008) ‘The European Neighbourhood Policy and Why the Northern Dimension Matters’, in Joan Debardeleben (ed.) The Boundaries of EU Enlargement: Finding a Place for Neighbours (PalgraveMacmillan). With Pertti Joenniemi. pp.33-49
• (2006) ‘Rethinking Assumptions about Power and Influence in International Relations: The Transatlantic Rift, Small States and Finnish Lessons’, in Yury Akimov and Dmitri Katsy (eds.) Post-Cold War Challenges to International Relations (St. Petersburg: Saint-Petersburg State University Press) pp.51-93
• (2005) ‘From East-West to New Europe-Old Europe: The American Challenge to Finnish Identity’, in David J. Smith (ed.) The Baltic States and their Region: New Europe or Old? (Amsterdam: Rodopi) pp.11-38.
• (2005) ‘Introduction: Remaking Europe in the Margins’, in Christopher S. Browning (ed.) Remaking Europe in the Margins: Northern Europe af ther Enlargements (Aldershot: Ashgate) pp.1-10.
• (2005) ‘Westphalian, Imperial, Neomedieval: The Geopolitics of Europe and the role of the North’, in Christopher S. Browning (ed.) Remaking Europe in the Margins: Northern Europe after the Enlargements (Aldershot: Ashgate) pp.85-101.
• (2005) ‘Conclusion: Europe-Making and the North after Enlargement’, in Christopher S. Browning (ed.) Remaking Europe in the Margins: Northern Europe after the Enlargements (Aldershot: Ashgate). With Pertti Joenniemi, pp.205-223.
• (2004) ‘Kaliningrad’ιn Kimlik Arayιşι: Nereye Ait Olmak?’, in Erhan Büyükakinci (ed.) Değişen Dünyada Rusya ve Ukrayna (Ankara: Phoenix) pp.231-63. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• (2004) ‘The EU as a foreign policy actor: the limitations of territorial sovereignty’, in Stefano Guzzini and Dietrich Jung (eds.) Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research (London: Routledge) pp.167-179.
• (2003) ‘From Modern to Post-Modern Region-Building: Emancipating the Finnish Nation from the State’, in Marko Lehti and David Smith (eds.) Post-Cold War Identity Politics: Northern and Baltic Experiences (London: Frank Cass) pp.101-127.
• (2003) ‘Towards a New Agenda? US, Russian and EU Policies in Northern Europe’, in Lars Hedegaard and Bjarne Lindström (eds.) The NEBI Yearbook 2003: North European and Baltic Sea Integration ( Berlin: Springer) pp.273-289.
• (2003) ‘The Identity of Kaliningrad: Russian, European or a Third Space?’, co-authored with Pertti Joenniemi in Irina Busygina and Olga Potemkina (eds.) New Frontiers of Europe: Opportunities and Challenges (Moscow: MGIMO University) pp.138-192.
• (2002) ‘Competing or Complementary Policies? Understanding the Relationship between the NEI and NDI’ in Konstantin Khudoley and Stanislav Tkachenko (eds.) Challenges to International Relations in Post-Cold War Europe (St. Petersburg: Saint-Petersburg State University Press) pp.115-145.

 

WORKING PAPERS / MISCELLANEOUS

• 'Why are we supporting Ukraine? A cautionary note about vicarious war'Link opens in a new window, The Critic (May 2022) pp.14-17.
• 'Social Media Europe and the Rise of Comedy in Global Diplomacy', E-International Relations (October 2018).Link opens in a new window
• Nation Branding and Policy Transfer: Insights from Norden, EL-CSID Working Paper, 2018/21 (October 2018).Link opens in a new window
• 'Existential anxiety: how Leave and Remain became badges of self-identity', LSE Brexit, 10 September 2018.Link opens in a new window
• 'Cafe' (How can personal consumption affirm civilizational politics) I-Peel (January 2018)Link opens in a new window.
• Karelia as a Finnish-Russian Issue: Re-negotiating the Relationship between National Identity, Territory and Sovereignty, CEURUS EU-Russia Paper 18, May 2014 (University of Tartu, Estonia) 31 pages. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• Gibraltar, Jerusalem, Kaliningrad: Peripherality, Marginality, Hybridity (Mariehamn: Åland Islands Peace Research Institute, Report 1/2007). With Pertti Joenniemi.
• Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy (Copenhagen: DIIS Working Paper 2007/9) pp.37. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• 'Rethinking Marginality: The Northern Experience as a Resource’, BALTINFO – Official Newsletter of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (No. 71, March, 2005) pp.6-7.
• ‘Marginaalin kautta ytimeen’, [To the Core via the Margin] Ulkopolitiikka, 1/2004, pp.81-82. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• ‘The Identity of Kaliningrad: Russian, European or a Third Space?’ in Fabrizio Tassinari (ed.) The Baltic Sea Region in the European Union: Reflections on Identity, Soft-Security and Marginality (Gdansk and Berlin: BaltSeaNet Working Papers 8, 2003) pp.58-103. With Pertti Joenniemi.
• ‘Towards and enduring rapprochement in Northern Europe’, in Teresa Pohjola and Johanna Rainio (eds.)The New North of Europe: Policy Memos (Helsinki: Ulkopoliittinen instituutti and Institut für Europäische Politik 2002) pp.10-14.
• The Internal/External Security Paradox and the Reconstruction of Boundaries in the Baltic: The Case of Kaliningrad (Copenhagen: COPRI Working Papers 21/2002) 42 pages.
• Competing or Complementary Policies? Understanding the Relationship between the NEI and NDI (Copenhagen: COPRI Working Papers 8/2002) 29 pages.
• 'Tilnærmelse mellem Vesten og Rusland: Hvilken rolle spiller EUs nordlige dimension efter 11. September?’ [West-Russian Rapprochement: What Role for the EU’s Northern Dimension after September 11] COPRI Nyhedsbrev 12/2002, pp.32-38.
• The Construction of Europe in the Northern Dimension (Copenhagen: COPRI Working Papers 39/2001) 37 pages.
•  A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Regional Cooperation: The United States and the Northern European Initiative (Copenhagen: COPRI Working Papers 15/2001) 32 pages.
• The Region-Building Approach Revisited: The Continued Othering of Russia in Discourses of Region-Building in the European North (Copenhagen: COPRI Working Papers 6/2001) 60 pages.
• Coming Home or Moving Home? “Westernising” Narratives in Finnish Foreign Policy and the Re-interpretation of Past Identities (Helsinki: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Working Paper 16/1999) 29 pages.

MEDIA ENGAGEMENT

• Extended expert interview on 'Humour, Nation Branding and the Politics of Identity', The Place Brand ObserverLink opens in a new window (August 2019)
• Tom McTague, 'British Jacobins on the march in Brexit revolutionLink opens in a new window', Politico, 17 September 2018 [interviewed/quoted based on Brexit research papers above].
• 'Suomi 99 vuotta' [Finland at 99 years], Ulkopolitiikka 4/2016 pp.34-41 [interviewed in respect of an article on Finland's country brand]
• 'Norden som favorit in politisk debatt', Yggdrasil 20 December 2014. Interview on Norden in British political debate.
• 'Suomettumisen Paluu', Politiikasta.fi. 17 October 2014. Invited intervention for a discussion on 'The Return of Finlandisation'.
• 'Suomen maabrändissä piilee hienoja mahdollisuuksia', [Finland's Country Brand has Hidden Opportunities] Turun Sanomat 27 February 2014.