Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, International History

• Director, Programme for the Study of Global Migration
  

Profile

PhD, Boston University
Faculty member since 2000, Professor Hanhimäki was previously a Lecturer at the London School of Economics. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars (Washington, DC) and is the recipient of the 2002 Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He was elected Finland Distinguished Professor in 2006. His main research interests include American foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and the international history of the Cold War.

Areas of expertise

• Cold War (Cold War and European Security; The Cultural Cold War; International organisations and the Cold War)
• Foreign policies (American Foreign Policy)
• History of international relations
• Immigrants, refugees, diasporas
• International organisations, UN
• Transatlantic relations
  

Selected publications

• "Obaman doktriini: Kaunista sanahelinää vai konkreettisia muutoksia?" [The Obama Doctrine: Beautiful Rhetoric or Concrete Changes], in Suomi-USA/Finland-USA, 1/2009, pp. 18-19.
• "No Early Retirement: At 63 the United Nations is Imperative in the 21st Century," in Internationale Politik, Spring 2009, pp. 88-93.
• United Nations: A Very Short Introduction (New York, 2008).
• The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Understanding the Cold War: A History with Documents and Eye-Witness Accounts. With Odd Arne Westad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Fellowship and activities

• Editor, Cold War History
• Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland (2007-2011)
• Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC (2002/2003)
• Winner of the Bernath Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2002)

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