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Tapio Juntunen

University Instructor, Security Studies
Faculty of Management and Business | Politics | International Relations
Tampere University
tapio.juntunen [at] tuni.fi (tapio[dot]juntunen[at]tuni[dot]fi)
phone number+358503187034

Responsibilities

Top achievements

  • Raimo Väyrynen Dissertation Award, the Foundation for Foreign Policy Research, January 2025. The Raimo Väyrynen Dissertation Prize is awarded for the best doctoral dissertation on international politics written in a Finnish university during the last three years.
  • PhD (International Relations), Tampere University, 2024. Dissertation approved with distinction.
  • Teacher of the year award, Degree Programme in Politics, University of Tampere, 2014 and 2016 (chosen by students).

Main positions of trust

Editor of Politiikka (2019-2020).

Member of Board in Finnish International Studies Association.  

Research topics

Security Studies (societal security and resilience, international security) 

History of Finnish foreign- and security politics

Disarmament and nuclear weapons politics

International history and practice theory

Research unit

Research Group on Security Studies

Research fields

Security Studies and International Relations

Latest publications