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Title: The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)


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The Finnish Institute of International
Affairs(FIIA)
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What is the FIIA?
  • International relations think-tank
  • Founded in 1961
  • Maintained by the Foundation for Foreign Policy
    Research until the end of 2006
  • The new FIIA founded 2007 by the Parliament of
    Finland

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New FIIA
  • Parliament Centennial decision
  • Parliamentary motion was given 30.3.2006, and
    adopted 1.6.2006
  • Law into effect 1.1.2007
  • Complete name according to the law Research
    Institute of International and European Union
    Affairs (unofficial transl.)

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in connection with
  • A more secure basis for the future
  • Works "in connection with the Parliament"
  • Independence accentuated
  • Budget inside Parliament appropriations
  • Recruitments
  • New premises

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FIIA mission
  • High quality research on IR
  • Stimulate and promote analytical discussion on IR
  • Support foreign policy decision-making

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What does the FIIA do?
  • Research
  • Seminars and other events
  • Publications
  • Library
  • Consulting
  • Public debate

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Publications
  • FIIA Report
  • UPI Briefing Papers
  • UPI Working Papers
  • Ulkopolitiikka The Finnish Journal of Foreign
    Policy
  • monographs

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Current areas of research
  • The CFSP of the EU
  • Chinas Transforming Society
  • Russia and the EU
  • Transatlantic Relations
  • Democratisation in the Middle East
  • Terrorism
  • Russias European Choice

9
Research agenda for 2007 (unofficial draft)
  • EU (external issues, EU in the world)
  • Transformation in international relations
  • Energy and climate change
  • Finnish foreign and security policy

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FIIA in the Internet
  • News
  • Commentary
  • Publications
  • Seminar reports
  • Coming events
  • Mailing list
  • www.upi-fiia.fi

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Library
  • established 1966
  • 23000 books, catalogued with keywords
  • 90 journal or newspaper subscriptions
  • Budget 2005 and 2006 11000 euros
  • Book catalogue not online
  • Collections open to the public
  • FIIA Researchers given priority in all services

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Article database
  • Bibliographic
  • Best product of the library
  • Begun October 1995
  • Inhouse nearly 61000 indexed
  • Contents of journals arrived to the library
  • Subject and area codes
  • Parliament e-collections will save FIIA article
    database work in the future

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Changes in the Library
  • Will be maintained
  • Will outside customers meet changes?
  • A lot depends on the future premises
  • Closer cooperation with the Parliament Library
    and Research Service of the Parliament
  • Agreement on the principles of mutual services
    and service processes
  • Secure internet connection to the Parliament
  • - Useful electronic collections available

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International Relations and Security Network, ISN
  • http//www.isn.ethz.ch/
  • FIIA a Principal Partner shares its academic
    research and full text publications
  • Publishing house (http//www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/)
  • Own search machine but also e.g. in Google
  • Classified and descripted
  • Only English material
  • Original publishers not hidden
  • Gives visibility
  • (Also a kind of archive for FIIA publications )

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EINIRAS Database Network, EDN
  • http//einiras.coe.int/
  • Bibliographic
  • European
  • 50000 from FIIA, 365000 total
  • double or triple records ?
  • in FIIA records codes converted to descriptions
  • administered by EINIRAS, server and user
    interface provided by Council of Europe
  • FIIA sent no new records since April 2006

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Thank you
  • Jouko Rajakiili
  • Information specialist
  • Library. Finnish Institute of International
    Affairs
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