Tuure-Eerik Niemi joined the MA program in Fall 2018. His research interests include: EU external action and strategic partnerships, European Neighbourhood Policy, global governance reform and political risk analysis.
While at Columbia, Tuure served as a Co-President of the Columbia Nordic Society and as a Vice-President of the Columbia European Union Student Association.
Tuure graduated in October 2019 and is currently a Public Relations Officer of the European Parliament (Helsinki, Finland).
MA Thesis
Sovereign Europe? Analysing EU Member States' Voting Positions in the United Nations General Assembly
Advisor: Tsveta Petrova
Education
- MA in European History, Politics, and Society - Columbia University, 2019
- MA in EU International Relations and Diplomacy, College of Europe (Bruges), 2018
- BA in World Politics, Leiden University, 2017
Awards & Fellowships
- 2019 - Columbia University International Fellow
- 2018 - Thanks to Scandinavia Robert Boas Memorial Scholarship
- 2018 - Baillet Latour Foundation Prize for best MA thesis (Game of Regions? Analysing Chinese Political and Economic Engagement in EU Eastern Partnership Countries) on EU-China relations at the College of Europe
- 2017 - College of Europe EU-ENP Scholarship
- 2017 - Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant
- 2017 - FutureLab Europe Member, European Alliance for Democratic Citizenship
- 2016 - Leids Universiteits Fonds LISF Award for studies at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- 2011 - Finnish Cultural Foundation UWC Scholarship
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