Heikki Patomäki

Heikki Patomäki , b.1963, is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Innovation Professor of Globalization and Global Institutions at the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also the Vice Director of the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research.

Patomäki’s research interests include philosophy and methodology of social sciences and futures studies; peace research; global political economy; scenarios of global futures; and the political theory of global justice and democracy.

 

Patomäki’s papers have appeared in numerous of journals and anthologies. His recent books include

 

• Democratising Globalisation: The Leverage of the Tobin Tax (Zed Books, 2001)
• After International Relations: Critical Realism and the (Re)Construction of World Politics (Routledge, 2002)
• A Possible World: Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions (with T.Teivainen, Zed Books, 2004)
• Globalizing Finance and the New Global Economy (co-ed. with P.James, Sage, 2007)
• The Political Economy of Global Security. War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance (Routledge, 2008).

 

In 2009-10, Patomäki is writing a new book tentatively entitled Global Futures. On the Temporality of the Human Condition; while also working on neoliberalism and economic crisis, theories of political economy, cosmological sources of cosmopolitanism, new forms of global political agency, and other issues.