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Books to read, places to see…
I am preparing for a trip to the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, and for the lecture I should be giving there. The lecture will be a wrap-up of notions on the History of...
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Oneliners…
Two quick ones, related to last week’s budget negotiations in the European Council of Heads of States. . First of all, a column in Helsingin Sanomat (Fin.) by economic journalist Pekka Hakala. I...
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European democracy
Two useful tools to become more acquainted with the machine of the European Parliament – to my view the most interesting and most challenging part of the EU’s machinery. . VoteWatch Europe: it will...
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Stéphane Hessel and Max Jakobson…
… at the New Diplomatic history blog: http://toynbeeprize.org/diplomatic-figures/
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Oneliner: Sweden and NATO…
Researcher Charly Salonius-Pasternak sees a new surge in Sweden’s debates about NATO, with the logical consequences on Finland’s position regarding the Organization. To sum things up: according to...
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Séminaire “Autour de la Baltique”…
Sciences’Po Paris has a new seminar dedicated to the Baltic Sea area, “Autour de la Baltique“. The first program for this year’s spring term shows a few usual suspects, but also new faces – which is...
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Follow-up: Finland’s campaign for the UN Security Council
Following-up on a previous mail about Finland’s ill-fated campaign to win one of the non-permanent seats in the Security Council, I would like to emphasize the study (link to the .pdf after the news...
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Diplomacy, more diplomacy…
Two things here. . The conference on “Public Diplomacy in Context” has come and gone. It was a pleasure and an honor to get so many excellent scholars and specialists in the field gathered in Helsinki...
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PhD defense: Fredrik Petersson and the League against Imperialism…
It is always great to see archive-based research on the history of transnational organizations and networks in the 1920s-1930s. This is, as Fredrik Petersson emphasizes in his work, “lost History” at...
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Foreign Policy free-for-all…
Do you read Foreign Policy? If you don’t, then you should. This is not always perfect, mind, but nothing is, and lately they have had at least two interesting groups of articles: . First, an interview...
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Revue d’Histoire Nordique, issue 15, and Michael J. Carley’s review of my work
I haven’t had time to present the issue 15 of the Revue d’Histoire Nordique, which came out at the beginning of the year. The theme of the issue is the beginning of World War I in the Baltic Area and...
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Transcultural Encounters: Symposium at the University of Oulu in December...
Quick conference heads’ up: Transcultural Encounters _ Symposium at the University of Oulu in December 12th–13th 2013 Cross-border interactive relationships and dependencies are an essential part of...
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Diplomatic lives in and around Finland: Arthur J. Collingsworth, Yuri...
This summer saw the death in close succession of three retired diplomats who had been in contact with Finland during the Cold War: Arthur Collingsworth, Yuri Deryabin, and Krister Wahlbäck. All three...
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The ties that Carl built…
A few quick ones here. Let’s start with Sweden-American relations. On the occasion of Barack Obama’s visit to Sweden and discussions with the heads of states of Nordic and Baltic countries, I can’t...
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…and the AABS/SASS 2013 conference at Yale University.
The common conference of two American learned societies, the SASS and the AABS, will take place next march in Yale University. Amongst the themes developed during this conference, one is particularly...
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Integration and Diplomacy – conference at the Firenze EUI…
Quickly, again, two small things. One is the following workshop: INTEGRATION & DIPLOMACY Organized by European Integration History Working Group – EUI-HEC Tuesday 19th November 2013, European...
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Conference report, Leiden conference 2013
And another one: the conference report on the conference “Reframing Diplomacy: New Diplomatic History in the Benelux and Beyond” organized in Leiden in early September. The report is written by the...
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Northern Future Forum: Uniscan reborn?
In January 2011, representatives from the Nordic and Baltic countries gathered in London under David Cameron’s stewardship for the first UK Nordic Baltic Summit. As described on the event’s webpage,...
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Reimag and Kantine
A little one to emphasize a new research project funded by the Academy of Finland: “Reimag“, for Reimagining Futures in the European North at the End of the Cold War. The goal of the project is to...
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France 2014 (R2)
louisclerc:Following the Municipal elections in France, here is a rundown of the results in English. For those interested… Originally posted on World Elections: The second round of municipal elections...
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