Thinking of Russia: Finnish Neutrality after the Cold War and the Influence of Russian Neighborhood on Finnish Cooperation with NATO

Q4 Social Sciences

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2020-03-25 DOI:10.51870/cejiss.a140101

Lucie Zimmermanová, Z. Kříž, E. Doležalová

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Abstract

In recent years, Finland has closely cooperated with NATO and Finnish politicians emphasize that Finland may consider joining the Alliance at any point. However, this step is unlikely in the foreseeable future. Russia’s aggressive actions abroad disconcert Finland; as this article shows, even after Russia’s war with Georgia and the breakout of the crisis in Ukraine, the situation is not deemed serious enough by the Finns for them to risk a serious deterioration of relations with their eastern neighbor. Rather than crossing the interests of Moscow, whose perception of the world Finland has been able uniquely to understand thanks to its historical experience, the country opts for a more complex, yet also safer, path of balancing between ever-closer cooperation with NATO, and maintaining the status of a non-member country.

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对俄罗斯的思考:冷战后芬兰的中立及俄罗斯邻国对芬兰与北约合作的影响

近年来，芬兰与北约密切合作，芬兰政治家强调芬兰可能会考虑在任何时候加入北约。然而，在可预见的未来，这一步不太可能实现。俄国在国外的侵略行为使芬兰感到不安;正如本文所示，即使在俄罗斯与格鲁吉亚的战争和乌克兰危机爆发之后，芬兰人认为局势还没有严重到足以让他们冒险与东部邻国的关系严重恶化的程度。由于其历史经验，芬兰能够独特地理解莫斯科对世界的看法。芬兰没有越过莫斯科的利益，而是选择了一条更复杂、但也更安全的道路，在与北约日益密切的合作和保持非成员国地位之间取得平衡。

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Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： The Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS) was founded by Mitchell Belfer (Editor in Chief), David Erkomaishvili (Deputy Editor in Chief), Nigorakhon Turakhanova (Head of the Academic Centre) and Petr Kucera, in December 2006, as an autonomous wing of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague. The initial goal was to develop, and project globally, a uniquely Central European take on unfolding international and security issues. This entailed an initial “out-reach” programme to attract scholars from throughout the four Central European states – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic – to participate in the journal as authors and members of the Editorial and (then) Advisory Boards. By the time of the first issue however, it became clear that CEJISS was also capable of acting as a platform for non-Central European scholars to present their academic research to a more regionalised audience. From issue 1:1 in June 2007 until the present, CEJISS has become, quite literally, a two-way street—it helps Central European scholars enter international academia and international scholars enter Central Europe.