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Karoliina Hurri is a Visiting Researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, specializing in Arctic Politics and Development. She holds a Doctor of Social Sciences degree from the University of Helsinki, focusing on China’s post-Paris climate leadership. Her research emphasizes climate governance, Sino-Russian relations, and Arctic environmental policy. She collaborates with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs as an external researcher in International Political Science.
Her work interrogates non-Western climate leadership paradigms, particularly China’s evolving role in global climate negotiations. Key themes include multilateral cooperation frameworks, Arctic security dynamics, and imaginative approaches to climate responsibility. She contributed to the 2025 book *We Make the Future!* exploring utopian climate narratives in the Arctic.
Hurri co-led the 2022–2025 project *Climate responsibility as a normative cornerstone of multilateral cooperation?*, funded by Kone Foundation. Her 11 research outputs (2020–2025) span peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and media engagements addressing climate diplomacy, Great Power politics, and Arctic sustainability. Media appearances include analyses on U.S. withdrawal from climate agreements and COP28 developments.
Her academic activities include keynote lectures at international conferences, peer-reviewing for academic journals, and organizing seminars on climate leadership. Current research interests include decolonizing climate governance frameworks and Arctic geopolitical tensions.
