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Heino
Nyyssönen
Docent, Contemporary History
University Lecturer, Political Science

Contact

+358 44 516 0563
Assistentinkatu 7
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

- Finland
Hungary
- Political science
IR and contemporary history
- European politics
- Post-Soviet space
- Foreing politics
- IR theories
- Politics and media

Biography

Heino Nyyssönen is a political scientist, who has more than 25 years academic experience in Finland and abroad. He is teaching political science, world politics and contemporary history. Nyyssönen has published more than one hundred articles. His dissertation was awarded as the dissertation of the year in Jyväskylä. His newest book, published in 2017, is dealing with the backlash of democracy in Hungary and beyond.

Teaching

Full-time Courses and Seminars at the University of Turku Since 2016 (Other/older courses, see Nyyssönen's CV)

*International Relations, Introduction: 2017, 2018

*International Political Economy and the Politics of Finance Crisis: 2017.

*Use of History: 2017

*BA-seminars: 2016, 2017

*Reading groups: Hans Morgenthau 2017

 

Research

- Finland, Hungary

- East Central Europe

- Central and Eastern Europe

- Rhetorics

- Use of History and Politics of Memory

- Democracy, Illiberalism and Nationalism

Publications

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