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Terhi Tikkala

Ph.D. candidate in Political Science (2002-)

E-mail: terhi.tikkala@sh.se
Mobile: +358 50 434 5019

Specialization

International Relations, Image politics, Public diplomacy, Russia, Nordic Co-operation

Preliminary title for Ph.D. thesis: Putin's Russia: Image Politics and Soft Power

Publications

Collander, Kimmo - Karina Jutila and Terhi Tikkala (eds.), 2010. Kreppa! What We Should Learn From the Icelandic Crisis. Centre Group in the Nordic Council and ALDE Group at the European Parliament. Helsinki, Finland.                

Terhi Tikkala, 2010. ”Dealing With Russia One Needs to Be Prepared For Change” (in Finnish). In ”The Choices and Responsibility of Finland. Foreign and Security Policy from the Midfield”. Centre Party Parliamentary Group, Helsinki, Finland.

Jutila, Karina - Terhi Tikkala (eds.), 2009. Together or Apart? The Nordic Council and the EU. Report 1/2009. Think Tank e2, Helsinki, Finland.

Tikkala, Terhi, 2007. ”Russian Image Making Practices And the Concept Of Democracy”. Paper presented at the 4th ECPR General Conference, Pisa, 6-8 September 2007.

Tikkala, Terhi, 2006. "Who Framed Kaliningrad? How the Region Became 'Russia's Hell-hole Enclave'". In Kaliningrad: A window to Europe? Ed. by Egle Rindzeviciute. Baltic and East European Graduate School, Huddinge.

Tikkala, Terhi, 2005. "Our Common Victory". Image Political Functions Of the 60th Anniversary Victory Day Celebrations in Russia. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Budapest 8-11 September.

Tikkala, Terhi, 2004, "Russian Public Diplomacy Under Putin". Paper presented at the 5th Pan-European International Relations Conference, The Hague 9-11 September.

Rytövuori-Apunen, Helena - Terhi Takkinen, 2000. "Interfaces in Environmental Thinking: Sustainable Development Challenged by Ecological Safety". In Rytövuori-Apunen, Helena (ed.), Russian-European Interfaces in the Northern Dimension of the EU. Studia Politica Tamperensis.

Takkinen, Terhi, 2000. Sustainable Development Reconsidered: A Semiotic Study of Russian Environmental Thinking. Master’s Thesis. Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and International Relations, International Relations. University of Tampere, Finland.

Professional

• Secretary General, Centre Group in the Nordic Council, 2007 - currently

• Political Secretary, Centre Group in the Nordic Council, 2004 - 2007

• Media and communications officer, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Parliament of Finland, 2000-2002

Languages

Finnish (native), Swedish, English, Russian, Spanish, French.