Christer Henrik Pursiainen
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Resilienssin ulottuvuudet [The dimensions of resilience; in Finnish]
Leikny Bakke Lie,
Laurien de Korte,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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“Here, I will stay until I die”—exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities
Reidar Staupe-Delgado,
Dina Abdel-Fattah,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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A discipline without a name? Contrasting three fields dealing with hazards and disaster
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Dina Abdel-Fattah,
Reidar Staupe-Delgado
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Higher Education and the Changing Situation of Societal Security in the Baltic Sea Region
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Eero Kytömaa
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From European critical infrastructure protection to the resilience of European critical entities: what does it mean?
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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The Crisis Cycle
Oxford University Press 2021 DOI
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Chris Alden,
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen
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The Arctic and Africa in China’s Foreign Policy: How Different Are They and What Does This Tell Us?
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Bjarte Rød
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National disaster risk assessments in Europe. How comparable are they and why?
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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[Crisis Management and the Corona Crisis; in Finnish] Kriisinhallinta ja koronakriisi: alustava arvio
Kosmopolis 08. Jun 2020 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Russia's Critical Infrastructure Policy: What do we Know About it?
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Arctic food crisis management
Routledge 2020 DATA
Bjarte Rød,
David Lange,
Marianthi Theocharidou,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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From Risk Management to Resilience Management in Critical Infrastructure
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Sandra Cassotta,
Roman Sidortsov,
Michael E. Goodsite
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Cyber Threats, Harsh Environment and the European High North (EHN) in a Human Security and Multi-level Regulatory Global Dimension: Which Framework Applicable to Critical Infrastructures under "Exceptionally Critical Infrastructure Conditions (ECIC)?
Johana Evelyn Montalvan Castilla,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Cyberspace Effects on Civil Society. The Ultimate Game-Changer or Not?
Sandra Cassotta,
Roman Sidortsov,
M. Goodsite,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Climate Change, Environmental Threats and Cybersecurity in the European High North
2019 FULLTEKST
Johana Evelyn Montalvan Castilla,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Citizen and civil society perspectives on cyberspace in the European High North
2019 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Critical infrastructure resilience: A Nordic model in the making?
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Tuomas Forsberg
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The principle of territorial integrity in Russian international law doctrine: The case of Crimea
Routledge 2018 DOI
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Bjarte Rød,
Greg Baker,
Daniel Honfi,
David J Lange
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Critical Infrastructure Resilience Index
CRC Press 2017 DATA
Bjarte Rød,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Nina Kristine Reitan,
Karolina Storesund,
David Lange,
Miguel Mira da Silva
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Evaluation of resilience assessment methodologies
CRC Press 2017 DATA
Tuomas Forsberg,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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The Psychological Dimension of Russian Foreign Policy: Putin and the Annexation of Crimea
Global Society 2017 DOI
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Angelica Matveeva
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Initiating Trust in High Politics: The Gorbachev-Reagan Summit in Geneva 1985
International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2016 DOI
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Tuomas Forsberg
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The Psychology of Foreign Policy
Palgrave Macmillan 2021 DATA
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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The Crisis Management Cycle
Routledge 2017 DATA
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Tuomas Forsberg
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[Foreign Policy from the Ivory Tower; in Finnish] Ulkopolitiikkaa norsunluutornista
2015 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Modernisation. Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
Palgrave Macmillan 2012 DATA
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Ždanov Tornissa [Ždanov in the Hotel “Torni”]
Otava Publishing Company Ltd. 2024 DATA
Leikny Bakke Lie,
Laurien de Korte,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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“Here, I will stay until I die”. Exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities
2023
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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BOOK REVIEW (in Finnish) of Klaus Törnudd (2020): Vägen framåt. Artiklar och kolumner från åren 1965-2020. Helsingfors: Tore och Herdis Modeens stiftelse nr 45.
Kulttuurivihkot 2022 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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BOOK REVIEW of Markku Kivinen and Brendan G. Humphreys, eds. Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm (London: Routledge, 2021)
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 2022
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Guna Bazone,
Stephanie Young,
Olga Zuin
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KEY OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. Higher Education Study Programmes in the Field of Societal Security in the Baltic Sea Region
2021 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Digital solutions for online learning in societal
security
2021 FULLTEKST
Stephanie Young,
Guna Bazone,
Olga Zuin,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Enhancing Societal Security Graduate Employability in the Baltic Sea Region
2021 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Dina Abdel-Fattah
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Societal Security as Higher Education: The State of the Art in the Baltic Sea Region
2021 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Nuclear submarines in Tromsø. An overview of available information on risks and preparedness
2020 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Book review of: The steppe tradition in international relations: Russians, Turks and European state building 4000 BCE–2018 CE. By Iver B. Neumann and Einar Wigen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018
International Affairs 2019 DOI
David Lange,
Hannah Rosenquist,
Bjarte Rød,
Ioanna Tantanasi,
Staffan Bram,
Johan Sjøstrøm
et al.:
Project report: operationalisation of resilience to critical
infrastructure
2018
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Lauluja järjestelmästä [Songs about the System; in Finnish]
Kulttuurivihkot 2018
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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[Emanuel and Frederick. The Court Cembalist and his King; in Finnish] Emanuel ja Fredrik. Hovicembalisti ja hänen kuninkaansa
2017 DATA
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Bjarte Rød,
David Lange,
Daniel Honfi
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On the contribution of technological concepts to the resilience of bridges as critical infrastructure assets
2016
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Bjarte Rød
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Report on criteria for evaluating resilience
2016 DATA
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Bjarte Rød
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Evaluation of Maintenance as a Resilience Indicator
2016
Peter et al. Gattinesi,
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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The European reference network for critical infrastructure protection - Project first phase (2011-2014): from concept to implementation
2016
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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["Independent Art -- for Revolution!" Trotsky and Culture; in Finnish] "Riippumaton taide -- vallankumouksen puolesta!" Trotski ja kulttuuri
Kulttuurivihkot 2015
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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Regional councils and the EU-Russian crisis
Baltic Rim Economies 2015
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Peter Gattinesi
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Towards Testing Critical Infrastructure Resilience
2014 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen
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[Russia's Politics is a Theme, but where are the Researchers?; in Finnish] Venäjän politiikka puhuttaa, missä ovat politiikan tutkijat?
2013
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Peter Gattinesi
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European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Thematic Areas. State of the Art.
2013 FULLTEKST
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Tom De Groeve et al.
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Overview of Disaster Risks that the EU faces: Internal assessment based on JRC databases
2013
Christer Henrik Pursiainen,
Peter Gattinesi
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European CIP-related Testing Capabilities: Gaps and Challenges
2013 FULLTEKST
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Dutkanberoštumit
Crisis Management
Resilience
Critical Infrastructure
Decision-Making theories
International Relations Theory
Political psychology
Political History
Ongoing externally funded projects:
Disinformation and people: impacts on societal trust and resilience (FAKENEWS)
- Funding: Norwegian Research Council
- Project period: September 2021-August 2025
Undervisning
2025 Spring and Autumn:
2025 Autumn:
Member of research group
CV
Dr. Christer Pursiainen works as Professor of Societal Security at the Department of Technology and Safety, Faculty of Science and Technology, Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø, Norway. He has been in this position since 2014.
Previously, Pursiainen has held leading management and research positions at several institutions and organizations, including the European Commission's DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (Ispra, Italy); the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) (Stockholm, Sweden); Nordregio, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Stockholm, Sweden); the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP) (Moscow, Russian Federation); the Aleksanteri Institute – Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Helsinki; and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (UPI-FIIA) (Helsinki, Finland).
His body of work includes approximately one hundred and forty scholarly publications, among them sixteen (co-)authored or (co-)edited books, on themes such as societal security, crisis management, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, regional cooperation and integration, comparative politics, state-society relations, and political history. These works have been published in various countries and in several languages.
In his native language Finnish, he has also published a fiction novel based on apocryphal biblical texts, along with three popular-historical biographies.
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Education
- 1999 PhD - University of Helsinki, Department of Political Science, specialization International Relations, Finland
- 1991 MSc. - University of Turku, Department of Political Science, specialization International Relations, Finland
Positions – Current and Previous
- 2014-present - Professor of Societal Security, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. (Research, project management, teaching and supervision on Crisis Management, Risk Management, Resilience.)
- 2012-2014 - Senior Scientist, European Commission, JRC ERNCIP, Ispra, Italy. (Coordinated European networks for Critical Infrastructure Protection.)
- 2008-2014 - Senior Advisor in Civil Security, CBSS, Stockholm, Sweden. (Managed networks for safety and security across 11 member states.)
- 2001-2007 - Senior Research Fellow, Nordregio, Stockholm, Sweden. (Managed multinational capacity-building projects in safety and security.)
- 2004-2005 - Key Expert on EU-Russia relations, RECEP, Moscow, Russian Federation. (Managed research and policy advice teams.)
- 2000-2001 - Acting Director, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. (Led a higher education and research institute.)
- 1995-2000 - Researcher/Senior Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland. (Led Russia-related research projects.)
- 1993-1994 - Interpreter/Translator, ABB, Samara Region, Russia. (Translated technical documents and assisted project management in electricity and gas sector projects.)
- 1983-1991 - Electrician, various companies, Finland.
- 1979-1982 - Factory Worker and Quality Controller, Asea Kabel, Stockholm, Sweden.
Research Grants and Project Management
- 2021-2025 - Disinformation and people: impacts on societal trust and resilience (FAKENEWS) - Norwegian Research Council. Work package leader.
- 2021-2023 - Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities in the Nordic Countries (ClicNord) - Nordforsk (Nordic Council of Ministers). Work package leader.
- 2020-2023 - Needs-based education and studies in societal security (NEEDS) - EU Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership. Work package leader.
- 2017-2019 - Enablement Besides Constraints: Human Security and a Cyber Multi-Disciplinary Framework in the European High North (ECoHuCy) - Nordforsk (Nordic Council of Ministers). Work package leader.
- 2019 - Food (in)Security in the Arctic - Nordic Council of Ministers. Project leader for the UiT part.
- 2015-2018 - Improved Risk Evaluation and Implementation of Resilience Concepts to Critical Infrastructure (IMPROVER) - EC Horizon 2020-DRS-2014. Project leader of the UiT part.
- 2017 - The Discipline of Societal Security in the Making: Let’s Make it Together! - Nordic Council of Ministers. Initiator and project leader.
- 2013-2017 - Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network (CIPRNet) - European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Project leader of the European Commission/JRC part.
- 2016 - Methodology for Measuring Critical Infrastructure Resilience - Finnish Ministry of Defence. Project leader.
- 2012-2013 - European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Flagship Project 14.3 (EUSBSR FP 14.3) - European Commission DG ECHO/Civil Protection, and the Swedish Institute. Project leader.
- 2011-2013 - European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, Priority Area 14 - European Commission, DG Regio. Project leader.
- 2008-2010 - At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Transformation - Academy of Finland. Project leader and initiator.
- 2007 - From weak signals to response: civil protection early warning - European Commission DG Environment, Civil Protection. Project leader.
- 2007 - Towards regional strategy of critical infrastructure protection in the Baltic Sea Region - European Commission DG Freedom, Justice and Security. Project leader.
- 2003-2007 - Eurobaltic project for civil protection in the BSR and Eurobaltic II - EU BSR Interreg IIIB. Project leader for Nordregio’s part.
- 2003-2007 - Development of a conversion network in the BSR - EU BSR Interreg IIIB. Project leader for Nordregio’s part.
- 2003-2007 - Russia between integration and protectionism - Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Project leader.
- 2004-2005 - The Bologna process and its implications to Russia - European Commission Tacis, Administration of the President of the RF. Project leader.
- 2004-2005 - Towards the Kaliningrad Partnership in the Russian-European relations - European Commission Tacis, Administration of the President of the RF. Project leader.
- 2004-2005 - EU-Russian relations - European Commission Tacis, Administration of the President of the RF. Project leader.
- 2000-2005 - Nordic Network for Security Studies – Russia & Norden - Nordic Council of Ministers. Project leader.
- 2004 - The Finnish Defence Forces and Civil Security - Ministry of Defence of Finland. Project co-leader.
- 2001-2002 - Database for business and administration: Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland - Finnish national fund for research and development SITRA. Project leader.
- 1999-2002 - Crisis Decision-Making in Finland - Academy of Finland. Project co-leader.
- 1998-2000 - Russia beyond 2000 - Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Project leader.
Other Professional Experience
- Research Group Director - S3E3, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 2015-2021.
- Workshops and Seminars - Organized major conferences, academic seminars, and public webinars.
- Policy Advice - Provided evaluations and advice to European Commission bodies, ministries, and international organizations.
- Teaching - Extensive experience in course design, teaching, and PhD, M.Sc. and Bachelor supervision in crisis management, risk management, resilience, and international politics. Certified in teaching and supervision from UiT.
Current Editorial Board Positions
- Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy (Wiley)
- Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy (Elsevier)
Evaluation Tasks and Journal Peer Review
- Regular evaluator for EU Horizon programs, Norwegian Research Council, national science academies and national grants. Regular evaluations of doctoral theses and academic positions.
- Regular reviewer for journals including such as European Planning Studies, Journal of European Integration; Journal for Common Market Studies; Security Dialogue; American Political Science Review; Journal of International Relations and Development; International Relations; Problems of Post-Communism; Asian Journal of Comparative Politics; Europe-Asia Studies; Safety Science; Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy; Sustainability; International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection; International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction; Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management; Infrastructures; Utilities; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict; Cities.
Invited Fellowships
- 2018-2019 - Visiting Professor, LSE, Centre for International Studies, Department of International Relations, London.
- 2023-2024 - Visiting Fellow, University of Hamburg, Centre for Sustanailable Society Studies.
Honorary Awards
- 1999 - UKK Prize for research on Russian foreign policy, handed over by President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland.
- 2011 - Finlandia Prize candidate for a Finnish-language biography of Lev Trotsky; Bestseller Non-fiction Award from Academic Bookstore (Finland, 2012).
Languages
- Finnish - Native
- English - Fluent
- Swedish - Fluent
- Russian - Fluent
- German - Good command