Research associate and researcher at the Finnish Institute for International Affairs.
World Governance, comparative regional integration.

Timo holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC and a BA in Political Science from the University of London.

Before joining Notre Europe, Timo has worked in a variety of academic and non-academic positions in international affairs. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Bologna and as a lecturer in European Studies at SAIS in Washington DC. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank Group and is a non-resident fellow for the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. Timo also held assignments with the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington DC, the German Embassy in Ankara and the EU's Institute for Security Studies in Paris.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Reconfiguring Euro-Med Regional Cooperation , Eurmesco Brief 1/2011, May 2011
• Arab Spring, European Split , BEPA Monthly Brief, Issue 46, April 2011
• Hard choices: The EU's Options in a Changing Middle East , UPI Report 28/2011, April 2011
• 'Il Nord Africa e l’economia globale', in Karim Mezran, Silvia Colombo, Saskia van Genugten, L'Africa mediterranea tra storia e futuro , Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2011, pp. 173-194
• ‘The EU and Arab Democracy’, in Timo Behr (ed.), Hard choices: The EU's Options in a Changing Middle East , UPI Report 28/2011, April 2011
• Stredomorská politika EÚ po arabskej revolte [The EU’s Mediterranean Policy and the Arab Revolutions], Zahraničná politika 2/2011, April 2011
• Europe and the Arab World: Towards a Principled Partnership , C.A.P Perspectives 2/2011, March 2011
• Europe's flawed Arab Spring , UPI Comment 5/2011, March 2011
• The Arab Uprising, Causes, Prospects, Implications , with Mika Aaltola, UPI Briefing Paper 76, March 2011
• 'The Substantial Union: Recasting the EU's Middle East Policies', in Almut Möller & Roderick Parkes (eds.), What the EU did Next? , DGAP, February 2011
• Deciphering Egypt’s Transition: What do Egypt’s botched elections mean for the EU?, UPI Briefing Paper 72, December 2010
• « The 2008 Oil Price Shock: Competing Explanation and Policy Implications »�, GPPi Policy Paper, No. 1, 2009
• « Enduring Differences? France, Germany and Europe's Middle East Dilemma »�, in Erik Jones & Saskia van Genugten, eds., The Future of European Foreign Policy, London: Routledge, 2008
• « Enduring Differences? France, Germany and Europe's Middle East Dilemma »�, Journal of European Integration, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2008
• « Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union plans should worry Brussels »�, with Ruth Hanau-Santini, EU Observer Comment, 12 November 2007
• « EU Enlargement and Armaments: Defence Industries and Markets of the Visegrad Countries »�, with Albane Siwiecki, European Institute for Security Studies, Occasional Paper, No. 54, September 2004
• « US Attitudes towards Europe - A Shift of Paradigms? »�, Notre Europe: Research and European Issues, No. 29, November 2003.