Sinikukka Saari is a third-year research student at the Department of International Relations in the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is writing her PhD on European multilateral human rights cooperation and its impact on Russia’s policy. She is also attached to the Finnish Institute of International Affairs as a researcher (http://www.upi-fiia.fi).
Publications
’Chasing after the Russian troika’ (review article), The Yearbook of Finnish Foreign Policy 2004(Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 2004)
’Suomi ja Neuvostoliiton hajoaminen’ [Finland and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union] with Christer Pursiainen. A chapter in T. Forsberg, C. Pursiainen, R. Lintonen and P. Visuri, eds, Suomi ja kriisit: vaaran vuosista terrori-iskuihin[Finland and crises: from the years of danger to terrorist attacks], Gaudeamus, Helsinki 2003
’Putin ja haalistunut demokratia’ [Putin and faded democracy], Ulkopolitiikka, vol. 43, no. 2, 2003
Book Review of Daniel C. Thomas, The Helsinki Effect. International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001, in Idäntutkimus, no. 3, October 2002
’Et tu Brute! Finland’s NATO Option and Russia’, with Christer Pursiainen, FIIA Report, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, May 2002
’Venäjän ja Naton suhteen uljas uusi alku?’ [Brave New Beginning for Russia and NATO?],Ulkopolitiikka, vol. 43, no. 2, 2002