Profile

PhD, Boston University
Faculty member since 2000, Professor Hanhimäki was previously a Lecturer at the London School of Economics. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars (Washington, DC) and is the recipient of the 2002 Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He was elected Finland Distinguished Professor in 2006. His main research interests include American foreign policy, transatlantic relations, and the international history of the Cold War.

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

• History of international relations
• NATO & other security alliances
• Foreign policies
• International organisations, UN
• Multilateral diplomacy, international negotiations
• Nuclear treaties & security
• Armed conflicts, violence
• Arms control, disarmament
• Boundaries & territorial disputes
• Governance & multilateralism

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE
 

• Canada
• United States of America
• Russian Federation
• Åland Islands
• Finland
• Norway
• Sweden
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Italy
• Austria
• Germany
• Switzerland

Selected publications
 

• ‘The End of Nordic Neutrality: What Finland and Sweden Bring to NATO’. Foreign Affairs (May 2024).
• ‘Transatlantic Relations and the Ukraine War.’ Cold War History (February 2023).
• ‘Just Symbolic? : Sport as a Barometer of International Relations’, Olympic review (2022).
• ‘Détente and the Reconfiguration of Superpower Relations.’ (2022).  In The Cambridge History of America and the World (New York, 2022).
• Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era (New York, 2021)
• An International History of Terrorism: Western and Non-Western Experiences (London, 2013). With Bernhard Blumenau.
• United Nations: A Very Short Introduction (New York, 2008, 2015). Arabic translation in 2013.
• Transatlantic Relations Since 1945: An Introduction (London, 2012). With Benedikt Schoenborn and Barbara Zanchetta.
• The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (New York, 2004).
• The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eye-Witness Accounts  (Oxford, 2003, 2004). With Arne Westad.

Activities
 

• Visiting Professor, LSE IDEAS (2018)
• Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland (2007-2011)
• Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC (2002-2003)
• Winner of the Bernath Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2002)
• Editor, Cold War History (since 2000)