Publications

Scientific publications

Below you will find our publications in English. Please find our publications in Finnish here.

Brunila, Tuukka (2025): Legal resilience and legislative emergency preparation in Finland. Retfærd.

Brunila, Tuukka (2024): Legislation, emergencies and the need for swift action: Tensions between the executive branch and emergency legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. The Theory and Practice of Legislation.

Brunila, Tuukka (2022): Depoliticization of politics and power: Mouffe and the conservative disposition in postfoundational political theory. Frontiers in Political Science.

Brunila, Tuukka (2023): The Future of Political Institutions – Foucault, Genealogical Critique, and the Normative Implications of His Analysis of the State. Acta Philosophica Fennica.

Brunila, Tuukka & Salminen, Janne (2024): Checks and Balances in Declaring a State of Emergency According to the Constitution of Finland. Scandinavian Studies in Law.

Daminova, Nasiya (2023): The European Court of Human Rights on the ‘Stockholm’s Roadmap Directives’: the quest for a coherent application of ‘due process’ rights in Europe? EU Law Live Weekend Edition No. 156. The EU Directives on Procedural Rights in Criminal Matters: Almost 15 years after the Roadmap, where do we stand, where do we go?

Daminova, Nasiya (2024): The Luxembourg Court Faced with the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Example of ‘Due Process’ Rights. MTA Law Working Papers
2024/11.

Erkkilä, Tero (2023): Global indicators and AI policy: metrics, policy scripts, and narratives. Review of Policy Research.

Erkkilä, Tero; Meng-Hsuan Chou & Kauppi Niilo (2023): Knowledge alchemy: models and agency in global knowledge governance. Transnational Administration and Global Policy Series. Bristol University Press.

Erkkilä, Tero; Mölsä, Juho & Vähäniitty, Ella (2024): Nordic legal overseers and institutional openness in crises: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scandinavian Political Studies.

Farzamfar, Mehrnoosh (2023): The Right to Asylum under Securitised EU Law: A Real or an Illusory Right? Retfærd – Nordic Journal of Law & Justice.

Farzamfar, Mehrnoosh; Salminen, Janne & Tuominen, Janna (2024): Governmental Policies to Fight Pandemics: Defining the Boundaries of Legitimate Limitations on Fundamental Freedoms – National Report on Finland. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill BV.

Immonen, Waltteri; Ketola, Johanna & Vogt, Henri (2024): Cyclical Europeanisation during the COVID-19 crisis. Journal of European Integration.

Ketola, Johanna (2023): Bouncing back better? Levels and phases of Nordic resilience. Annual Military Sciences and Art of War Conference Publication. National Defence University.

Ketola, Johanna (2023): Continuity over change, institutions over innovations, organised over organic: the scales and phases of Nordic resilience. Nordic Review of International Studies.

Ketola, Johanna (2023): Health multilateralism and the Covid-19 pandemic. In Jokela, Juha; Creutz, Katja; Saul, Alana; Helwig, Niklas; Sinkkonen, Ville; Kronlund, Anna; Kallio, Jyrki; Nizhnikau, Ryhor & Ketola, Johanna. Multilateral cooperation in an era of strategic competition: Options for influence for Finland and the European Union. Publications of the Government´s analysis, assessment and research activities.

Kmak, Magdalena, & Farzamfar, Mehrnoosh (2022): Personal and academic narratives of exiled and displaced scholars. In Kmak, Magdalena & Björklund Heta (eds.) Refugees and Knowledge Production: Europe’s Past and Present. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Meng-Hsuan, Chou; Erkkilä, Tero & Mölsä Juho (2023): Crafting Innovation Hubs: Future Cities and Global Challenges. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

Nordström, Laura & Laiho, Niilo (2022): Explaining IMF design of 2010 Greece loan: bricoleurs relying on fiscal space and nonlinear multiple equilibria processes. Comparative European Politics.

Nordström, Laura & Teivainen, Teivo (2022):  IMF expertise in the eurozone crisis: from stimulus talk to austerity policy. Global Political Economy.

Nordström, Laura & Teivainen, Teivo (2023): Inclusion of IMF in Eurozone Crisis Management: Legitimacy Through External Expertise and Internal Depoliticisation. Global Society.

Pankakoski, Timo (2023): Fragmentation. In Sellers, Mortimer & Kriste, Stephan (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer.

Pankakoski, Timo (2024): Concepts We Transform by: Metaphorical Concepts in Post-COVID-19 Transition to Normalcy. Redescriptions.

Papageorgiou, Achillefs & Immonen, Waltteri (2023): How supranational institutions benefit from crises: member states’ solidarity and the EU’s image during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Union Politics.

Rainio-Niemi, Johanna (2022): Social Cohesion through Policy Coordination: the State, Interests and Institutions in Austria and Finland after 1945. In Christopher Lloyd & Matti Hannikainen (eds.) Social Cohesion and Welfare States. Routledge.

Reynolds, Bradley & Ketola, Johanna (2022): Dialogue for OSCE Renewal – Shifting Security Back to the People. Transatlantic Policy Quarterly.

Salminen, Janne & Farzamfar, Mehrnoosh (2022): The Supervision of Legality by the Finnish Parliamentary Ombudsman during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nordisk Administrativt Tidskrift.

Salminen, Janne & Farzamfar, Mehrnoosh (2024): Legislative Oversight in Finland during the States of Emergencies of the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Constitution at the Brink of a State of Emergency, Celebrating Thirty Years of the Constitution of Republic of Slovenia (1991-2021). University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law.

Torssonen, Sami (2024): Yes but No: Media Frames for Denying Nurses’ Strikes during COVID-19 Recovery. Redescriptions.

Ulnicane, Inga & Erkkilä, Tero (2023): Politics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence. Review of Policy Research.

Vogt, Henri (2021): Covid-19 and freedom. Social Science Information.

Vogt, Henri (2023): Finnish Orientation(s) towards Europe and the West. Nordic Review of International Studies.

Vogt, Henri & Pukarinen, Aappo (2022): The European Union as a long-term political actor: an overview. Political Research Exchange.

Vogt, Henri & Värttö, Mikko (2024): From Transformative Hope to Political Reality. A Conceptual Analysis of Post-Pandemic Government Agendas in Europe. Redescriptions.

Vogt, Henri & Värttö, Mikko (2024): Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden. Scandinavian Political Studies.

Värttö, Mikko (2023): Parliamentary oversight of emergency measures and policies – A safeguard of democracy during a crisis? European Policy Analysis.

Other publications

Silvan Kristiina & Ketola Johanna (2022): Crisis in Kazakhstan: The hollow core of Eurasia’s most “stable” autocracy exposed. FIIA Comment.

Wigell, Mikael; Hägglund, Mariette; Fjäder, Christian; Hakala, Emma; Ketola, Johanna & Mikkola, Harri (2022): Nordic resilience: Strengthening cooperation on security of supply and crisis preparedness. FIIA Report 70.

Blogs

Daminova, Nasiya & Shisong, Jiang (2022): The First Working Draft of the WHO’s ‘Pandemic Treaty’: attempting to cover normative gaps indicated by the COVID-19 pandemic? EJIL Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law.

Daminova, Nasiya & Shisong, Jiang (2024): The 77th World Health Assembly: Modest Amendments to the IHR-2005… More Expectations of the WHO’s ‘Pandemic Treaty’? EJIL Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law.

Daminova, Nasiya & Mutanen Anu (2024): The Luxembourg Court’s post-COVID jurisprudence on procedural rights – a new layer of obligations for Finland during future crises? EJIL Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law.

Farzamfar, Mehrnoosh & Palander, Jaana (2024): Border Crisis as a Crisis of Law: National Security & Mobility Rights at the Eastern Border of Finland. IACL-IADC Blog.

Järvinen & Vikman (2024): Pasquinelli and others v San Marino – The momentous competing interests of the community as a whole against healthcare workers refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Strasbourg Observers.

Academic dissertations

Brunila, Tuukka (2023):  The Autonomy of the Political and the Authority of the State : Carl Schmitt and the de-politicisation of the economy. University of Helsinki.

Farzamfar, Mehrnoosh (2021): The implications of the securitisation of immigration upon the right to seek asylum in the European Union : an interdisciplinary legal analysis. University of Helsinki.

Kostiainen, Aura (2023): Rationaalisuuden vallankumous – Oikeus, asiantuntijuus ja politiikka rikosoikeuskomitean (1972–1977) työskentelyprosessissa – The Revolution of Rationality. Law, Politics, and Expertise in the Finnish Criminal Law Committee (1972–1977). Suomalaisen lakimiesyhdistyksen julkaisuja –Publications of the Finnish Association of Lawyers.

Nordström, Laura (2024): Power of Experts in the EU – Birth of the Troika and Resilience of the EMU paradigm in the European debt crisis of 2010. University of Helsinki.

Pohjankoski, Pekka (2024): Union Without a Sword – Federal Coercion and the Emergence of Europe’s Constitution. University of Helsinki.

Funding acknowledgement

Just Recovery from Covid-19? Fundamental Rights, Legitimate Governance and Lessons Learnt (JuRe) project is funded by the Strategic Research Council. Grant numbers 345951 (WP1), 345952 (WP2), 345953 (WP3), 346002 (WP4), 345950 (WP5).