ICSN at University of Helsinki

Helsinki

Department of Political Science

Prof. Heikki Patomäki

Dr. Timo Kivimäki

Heikki Patomäki is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Helsinki and also the Research Director of NIGD, the Network Institute for Global Democratisation. Until Summer 2003 he was a Professor of World Politics and Economy at the Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research interests include critical realism as a philosophy of social sciences; theories and issues of peace research and global political economy; and global democratisation.

In addition to being the director of the ICSN Asia Link project, Prof. Patomäki is a supervisor of the Indonesian PhD students in the project.

Patomäki’s most recent books include
Democratising Globalisation: The Leverage of the Tobin Tax (Zed Books, 2001);
After International Relations: Critical Realism and the (Re)Construction of World Politics (Routledge, 2002); and
A Possible World: Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions (with T.Teivainen, Zed Books, August 2004;
a Finnish version was published as Globaali demokratia by Gaudeamus in June 2003).

His papers have appeared in Alternatives, Cooperation and Conflict, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Journal of Peace Research, Millennium, Review of International Political Economy, Theory, Culture and Society and many other journals and anthologies.

For more information on Prof. Heikki Patomäki, see http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/eng/department/index.htm