Mika Aaltola
Biographic Data
| ID | 1590130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mika Aaltola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mika |
| FAMILY NAME | Aaltola |
| SIGNATURE | AALTOLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute of International Affairs |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Emergencies in the time of Covid-19: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors, and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order. It argues that contagious diseases should be regarded as complex open-ended phenomena with various features and …
Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling: The "Thucydidean Brink" in Regressive Geopolitical Competition
This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary Western democracies. They include not only severe polarization in domestic politics, but also efforts by external autocratic powers to co-opt the increasingly digitalized political processes in the West. The discussion on democratic vulnerability and regression has rarely been historically and theoretically reflective. The aim is to fill this relative void by drawing on classical …
Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling: The Thucydidean Brink in the Age of Geopolitical Competition
U.S. and Chinese Silk Road Initiatives: Towards a Geopolitics of Flows in Central Asia and Beyond
Avian Flu and Embodied Global Imagery: A Study of Pandemic Geopolitics in the Media
Avian influenza is caused by viruses adapted to birds. The causative agents can, in rare cases, spread to humans, although no human-to-human transmission has been demonstrated. However, the mere possibility of mutation into a human form allowed for media, states and international organizations to speculate about the meaning of the disease's movement across species and localities. The hypothetical scenarios focused on national preparedness and res…
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
Contagious insecurity: War, Sars and global air mobility
Neglect of the cross-cutting confluences between different domains of security can lead to insular notions of global security as well as to lost opportunities for security sensitive contributions to the adjoining issue areas. This article attempts to overview the patterns of interactions during three security scenarios of early 2003: wars, as, for example, the War against Terror and the war in Iraq; pandemics such as severe acute respiratory synd…
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
"Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction to pandemic scares. By evaluating anxiety and the political response to pandemics as a legitimisation of the modern state and its ability to protect…
Agile small state agency: Heuristic plays and flexible national identity markers in Finnish foreign policy
Studies of small state foreign policy tend to draw relatively bleak conclusions when it comes to small state agency. However, I will examine alternative and more positive modalities of small state agency. One such modality is agility, the strategic maneuverability to take advantage of a chancy environment. Besides leading to dangerous rigidities and biases, particular types of foreign policy imageries and heuristics may also facilitate experiment…
The international airport: The hub-and-spoke pedagogy of the American empire
Airport hubs and the networks linking them have an important bearing on the formation of modern identities in world politics. The argument is that an airport connects individual experience—movement through the hub-and-spoke structure—and the world order's transformation towards progressively more imperial forms. The aviopolis provides places where appropriate imperial categories are produced—such as Westerner, Third-Worlder and terrorist—where mo…
International relations and epidemics: A short expedition to places inhabited by states and mad cows
The complex process of co-evolution between humans, their social structures and biological disease agents have from time to time established relationships between the three. Recently, one such set of paths has opened up faster and closer global connections. As new and more inclusive approaches emerge from the shadow of strict intra-disciplinary containment, it is tempting to formulate the relationship between epidemics and international relations…
Emergency food aid as a means of political persuasion in the North Korean famine
One of the last remaining communists states, North Korea, was recently hit by a series of natural catastrophes that culminated in a large-scale famine. The factors that accentuated international relations in the Korean Peninsula included such exceptional and diverse conditions as droughts, floods, famine, Communism and humanitarian aid. In understanding international politics under such heterogeneous conditions, the institution of gift-giving off…
The international airport: The hub-and-spoke pedagogy of the American empire
Airport hubs and the networks linking them have an important bearing on the formation of modern identities in world politics. The argument is that an airport connects individual experience—movement through the hub-and-spoke structure—and the world order's transformation towards progressively more imperial forms. The aviopolis provides places where appropriate imperial categories are produced—such as Westerner, Third-Worlder and terrorist—where mo…
Contagious insecurity: War, Sars and global air mobility
Neglect of the cross-cutting confluences between different domains of security can lead to insular notions of global security as well as to lost opportunities for security sensitive contributions to the adjoining issue areas. This article attempts to overview the patterns of interactions during three security scenarios of early 2003: wars, as, for example, the War against Terror and the war in Iraq; pandemics such as severe acute respiratory synd…
Avian Flu and Embodied Global Imagery: A Study of Pandemic Geopolitics in the Media
Avian influenza is caused by viruses adapted to birds. The causative agents can, in rare cases, spread to humans, although no human-to-human transmission has been demonstrated. However, the mere possibility of mutation into a human form allowed for media, states and international organizations to speculate about the meaning of the disease's movement across species and localities. The hypothetical scenarios focused on national preparedness and res…
Agile small state agency: Heuristic plays and flexible national identity markers in Finnish foreign policy
Studies of small state foreign policy tend to draw relatively bleak conclusions when it comes to small state agency. However, I will examine alternative and more positive modalities of small state agency. One such modality is agility, the strategic maneuverability to take advantage of a chancy environment. Besides leading to dangerous rigidities and biases, particular types of foreign policy imageries and heuristics may also facilitate experiment…
Emergency food aid as a means of political persuasion in the North Korean famine
One of the last remaining communists states, North Korea, was recently hit by a series of natural catastrophes that culminated in a large-scale famine. The factors that accentuated international relations in the Korean Peninsula included such exceptional and diverse conditions as droughts, floods, famine, Communism and humanitarian aid. In understanding international politics under such heterogeneous conditions, the institution of gift-giving off…
International relations and epidemics: A short expedition to places inhabited by states and mad cows
The complex process of co-evolution between humans, their social structures and biological disease agents have from time to time established relationships between the three. Recently, one such set of paths has opened up faster and closer global connections. As new and more inclusive approaches emerge from the shadow of strict intra-disciplinary containment, it is tempting to formulate the relationship between epidemics and international relations…
Emergency food aid as a means of political persuasion in the North Korean famine
One of the last remaining communists states, North Korea, was recently hit by a series of natural catastrophes that culminated in a large-scale famine. The factors that accentuated international relations in the Korean Peninsula included such exceptional and diverse conditions as droughts, floods, famine, Communism and humanitarian aid. In understanding international politics under such heterogeneous conditions, the institution of gift-giving off…
The international airport: The hub-and-spoke pedagogy of the American empire
Airport hubs and the networks linking them have an important bearing on the formation of modern identities in world politics. The argument is that an airport connects individual experience—movement through the hub-and-spoke structure—and the world order's transformation towards progressively more imperial forms. The aviopolis provides places where appropriate imperial categories are produced—such as Westerner, Third-Worlder and terrorist—where mo…
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
"Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political reaction to pandemic scares. By evaluating anxiety and the political response to pandemics as a legitimisation of the modern state and its ability to protect…
Agile small state agency: Heuristic plays and flexible national identity markers in Finnish foreign policy
Studies of small state foreign policy tend to draw relatively bleak conclusions when it comes to small state agency. However, I will examine alternative and more positive modalities of small state agency. One such modality is agility, the strategic maneuverability to take advantage of a chancy environment. Besides leading to dangerous rigidities and biases, particular types of foreign policy imageries and heuristics may also facilitate experiment…
Avian Flu and Embodied Global Imagery: A Study of Pandemic Geopolitics in the Media
Avian influenza is caused by viruses adapted to birds. The causative agents can, in rare cases, spread to humans, although no human-to-human transmission has been demonstrated. However, the mere possibility of mutation into a human form allowed for media, states and international organizations to speculate about the meaning of the disease's movement across species and localities. The hypothetical scenarios focused on national preparedness and res…
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
Contagious insecurity: War, Sars and global air mobility
Neglect of the cross-cutting confluences between different domains of security can lead to insular notions of global security as well as to lost opportunities for security sensitive contributions to the adjoining issue areas. This article attempts to overview the patterns of interactions during three security scenarios of early 2003: wars, as, for example, the War against Terror and the war in Iraq; pandemics such as severe acute respiratory synd…
U.S. and Chinese Silk Road Initiatives: Towards a Geopolitics of Flows in Central Asia and Beyond
Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling: The Thucydidean Brink in the Age of Geopolitical Competition
Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling: The "Thucydidean Brink" in Regressive Geopolitical Competition
This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary Western democracies. They include not only severe polarization in domestic politics, but also efforts by external autocratic powers to co-opt the increasingly digitalized political processes in the West. The discussion on democratic vulnerability and regression has rarely been historically and theoretically reflective. The aim is to fill this relative void by drawing on classical …
Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Emergencies in the time of Covid-19: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics
This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which it challenges the existing individual health, domestic order, international health governance actors, and, more fundamentally, the circulation-based modus operandi of the present world order. It argues that contagious diseases should be regarded as complex open-ended phenomena with various features and …
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Pandemic (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Business (3 works)