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.
- Ensimmäisen tasavallan diplomaattiperhe - Holmat Suomen ja Euroopan välillä (2016)
- Turun Historiallinen Arkisto
- From the State to the European Union [Book review] (2016)
- Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique
- Les coopérations nordiques. Vers un régionalisme nordique au XXe siècle? (2016) Encyclopédie pour une histoire nouvelle de l'Europe Clerc Louis
- Variables for a history of small states' imaging practices - The case of Finland's 'international communication' in the 1970s-1980s (2016)
- Place Branding and Public Diplomacy
- Diplomatian pelikenttä muuttuu (2015)
- Ulkopolitiikka
- “Gaining Recognition and Understanding on her own terms” – The Bureaucracy of Finland’s Image Policy, 1948–66 (2015) Histories of Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Louis Clerc
- Histories of Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding in the Nordic and Baltic Countries – Representing the Periphery (2015) Louis Clerc, Nikolas Glover, Paul Jordan
- Introduction - Representing the Small States of Northern Europe: Between Imagined and Imaged Communities (2015) Histories of Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Louis Clerc, Nikolas Glover
- Johdanto – Suomi-kuva kautta aikojen (2015) Sotapropagandasta brändäämiseen. Miten Suomi-kuvaa on rakennettu Louis Clerc, Virpi Kivioja, Olli Kleemola
- La guerre finno-soviétique (novembre 1939-mars 1940) (2015) Louis Clerc



