Lecturer

School of Government, Development and International Affairs

The University of the South Pacific
Laucala Bay Campus
Suva
Fiji Islands

Office: 014 - 215
Tel: (+679) 323 2780
Fax: (+679) 323 1524
Email: milla.vaha(at)usp.ac.fj

Milla Emilia Vaha started at the USP in July 2019. Born and raised in Finland, she did her first degree in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Turku in her home country and continued her studies in Political Theory at the London School of Economics in London, UK. She was then accepted to a doctoral program at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She finished her PhD on moral personality of the state in world politics in 2013, supervised by Professor Christian Reus-Smit. Since finishing her PhD, she has worked as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Turku and University of Tampere, both in Finland, as well as been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the European Union Experts4Asia Fellow at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Her research focuses on ethics and world politics. In her most recent research project she explores the concept of existential threat and the future of Small Island States during climate crisis. She has published on topics varying from the SIS and climate change to status of child combatants. She is also currently writing a book on Immanuel Kant’s conception of the moral personality of the state and its applicability in thinking about rights and responsibilities of states in today’s world politics.