Glase

Glase research consortium was led by Professor James Wesley Scott and coordinated by the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland. The research team of the Karelian Institute focused on the intermestic security environments of Finland and the European Neighbourhood. These workpackage themes included 1) how EU and Russia built actorness and framed security in the Neighbourhood context; 2) migration processes and policies in Russia and security on the Finnish-Russian and EU border; and 3) Finland’s Russian-speakers at the crossroads of Russian, Finnish and EU’s mediascapes.

Glase was a multidisciplinary research project implemented by the Karelian Institute and Department of Social Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland, Universities of Helsinki and Oulu, and by the Border and Coast Guard Academy of the Finnish Border Guard. The consortium examined changes in the global security environment, assessed the societal challenges posed by these changes, and developed ways to respond to these challenges. The research covered questions about the EU’s and Russia’s actorness; changing roles of states as producers of security; changes within the welfare state; international migration Russia and EU borders; immigration and integration policy; and concepts of threat and security in everyday life. The consortium’s work was part of the research program Security in a Networked World implemented by the Strategic Research Council within the Research Council of Finland in 2016-2019.