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

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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