Louis Clerc
PhD
loucle@utu.fi +358 29 450 3099 +358 50 326 5043 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku : 293 My office hours are every Tuesday from 15 to 16. |
Contemporary History, International Relations, Foreign policy, Europe, Finland, Public Diplomacy, Propaganda, Diplomacy, France, Nordic Countries
I am a Professor in Contemporary History with the University of Turku, Finland.
My research interests are:
- Kansainvälisten suhteiden historia / International History
- Suomen ulkopolitiikka / Finnish Foreign Policy
- Julkisuus- ja kulttuuridiplomatia, propaganda / Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Propaganda
My current projects (2018) are:
- Suomen julkisuus- ja kulttuuridiplomatia kylmän sodan aikana / Finnish Public and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War
- Ranskan ja pohjoismaiden väliset suhteet kylmän sodan aikana / Franco-Nordic relations during the Cold War
- Biographical projects / henkilöhistoriat: Kalervo Siikala ja Maurice de Coppet
- Suomalainen konsulijärjestelmä / Finnish consular system
- Turun kaupungin kansainväliset suhteet 1970-2010 / City diplomacy in Turku, 1971-2011
I teach a general introduction to Contemporary History (P. 2.1), and courses in the history of European Integration, European international relations, European policy in the Nordic Countries, and Finnish History (FNSC9007). I also manage my department's introduction seminar to Masters studies (S4).
I tweet in a personal capacity as @luikki and am present on Researchgate.
I try as much as possible to share open, post-print versions of my articles. For full-texts and if you have questions, either go to my Researchgate -page, or be in touch with me via e-mail or Twitter.
- Commerce, diasporas et représentation. Consuls et consuls honoraires finlandais en France de 1917 à 1945 (2026)
- Relations internationales
- Le nord s’exporte : un « soft power » à double face (2025)
- Pouvoirs
- Passeuse d'images: Denise Bellon et la Finlande de 1939 (2025) Denise Bellon: un regard vagabond Clerc, Louis
- Soft power ja ”primitiivinen propaganda”. Julkisuusdiplomatian tutkiminen vuonna 2025 (2025)
- Ennen ja nyt : Historian tietosanomatRevue d'histoire Nordique
- Suomeen tarvitaan kansallinen arkistostrategia (2025)
- Turun Sanomat
- Une finlandisation à la finlandaise? (2025)
- Une diplomatie des lointains. La France face à la mondialisation des rivalités internationales, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles (An Overseas Diplomacy. France Facing the Globalization of International Rivalries, 17th–18th Centuries), edited by Éric Schnakenbourg and François Ternat (Book review) (2024)
- Diplomatica
- A Better Hegemon? My Little Pony as a Pop Representation of Diplomacy in the Context of American Hegemony (2023)
- Hague Journal of Diplomacy
- Demokratian, politiikan ja urheilun rajamailla. Vesa Vareksen juhlakirja (2023)
- Ajankohta : poliittisen historian vuosikirja
- La Finlande dans la seconde guerre mondiale (2023) Clerc Louis



