Nicholas Prindiville is a recent PhD graduate in political history from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His areas of research interest include political transitions in Europe (particularly Northern Europe) since the fall of the Berlin Wall, constructions of “East” and “West” in European political history, and how history is used to inform policy. His doctoral research explored the construction of Finnish identity in Finland’s immigration policy towards Soviet and Russian immigrants of Finnish descent.