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Dr. Christer Pursiainen is Professor of Societal Safety and Environment at the Faculty of Science and Technology, the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), in Tromsø, Norway. He is also Adjunct Professor (docent) of International Relations at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and holds a doctorate in Political Science from the same university. Previously Pursiainen has worked in leading management and research positions in such institutions as the European Commission DG Joint Research Centrer (Italy, Ispra); Council of the Baltic Sea States, CBSS (Sweden, Stockholm); Nordregio, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Sweden, Stockholm); Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy, RECEP (Russian Federation, Moscow); Aleksanteri Institute - Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Helsinki; and Finnish Institute of International Affairs, UPI-FIIA (Finland, Helsinki). Pursiainen’s publications consist of about one hundred and twenty scholarly and popular-scientific publications, including sixteen authored or (co)edited books, on a variety of themes such as societal security, crisis management, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, regional cooperation and integration, comparative politics, state-society relations, and Soviet/Russia's history and politics, published in different countries and in several languages. He has also published one fiction novel and two popular-historical biographies. His latest book is The Crisis Management Cycle (UK: Routledge 2017).