with Stanford University and the Perm Technical University she and her team studied the transformation processes mainly in the aerospace industry. As the Regional Director of North Karelia she was instrumental in establishing "soft borders" between Finnish border regions and the Karelian Republic on the Russian side. Her work led to the establishment of Euregio Karelia, a cross-border region with common development programmes and projects. Later, as the director of COPRI, Copenhagen Peace Research Institute she was involved in the further development of the Copenhagen School of Security Studies, doing also work on missile defence and dual-use technologies. In her political work she has specialised in defence and security matters, lately in questions of nuclear disarmament. Her choice of committees in the EU Parliament reflects these interests, as does her work as the Chair of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Iran. Her current work at Sipri is focused a nuclear disarmament and the nuclear order. An in 2020 she carried out an internal SIPRI- study on the security structures of the Middle East. Her latest book is “Renegotiating the Nuclear Order. A Sociological Approach”, Routledge, April, 2021. Here the approach is one of the sociology of technology and the main thread is the distribution of the rights and responsibilities between the nuclear and non-nuclear states. The overall conclusion deals with whether the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), can be reformed from the inside or not. The more concrete nuclear policy conclusions deal with the monopoly of the nuclear weapon states, empowering the non-nuclear states and the future relationship between the NPT and the new treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. Furthermore, the question who should assign proliferators is answered. In addition to her native Finnish, Cronberg is fluent in Danish, English, French, German, Russian and Swedish. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at the turn of the year 2008/2009. References External links Official Website of Tarja Cronberg 1943 births Living people Politicians from Helsinki Green League politicians Ministers of Labour of Finland Members of the Parliament of Finland (2003–07) Green League MEPs MEPs for Finland 2009–2014 21st-century women MEPs for Finland Women government ministers of Finland Women members of the Parliament of Finland Copenhagen Business School alumni