Governance Research at the University of Helsinki. Teivainen is board member and since January 2011 Research Director of the Centre. One of Teivainen's main publications is Enter Economism, Exit Politics, published in 2002. In the book, based on his dissertation, Teivainen analyses the transnational expansion of economism and its implications for democracy. Teivainen paid special attention to transformations in the boundaries between the political and the economic as well as between the inside and the outside. Articles dealing with similar topics include Towards a Democratic Theory of the World-System: Democracy, Territoriality and Transnationalization. Teivainen's research interests also include the pedagogy of global power. In 2003 he published a book on the topic in Spanish. Teivainen has also published many articles on global democracy and cosmopolitanism together with professor Heikki Patomäki. In 2003, Patomäki and Teivainen published a book called A Possible World. Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions (Zed Books, London and New York). The book was originally published in English and later translated into Finnish, Arabic and Spanish. Teivainen is also known as an active public commentator, frequently commenting topical societal issues in various domestic and international media. He has served in many civil society organizations dealing with alternative globalization, above all at the Network Institute for Global Democratization – NIGD. Teivainen has played an active role in the World Social Forum.In 2001 Teivainen, in representation of NIGD, was one of the founding members of the International Council of the World Social Forum and has since then participated in many activities of the Council. Selected books Teivo Teivainen: Democracy in Movement: The World Social Forum as a Political Process. Routledge, forthcoming. Teivo Teivainen: Maailmanpoliittinen kansalliskävely (World Political National Walk). Helsinki: Into. 2017. . Maria Manner and Teivo Teivainen: Brasilia (Brazil). Helsinki: Siltala. 2016. . Teivo Teivainen: Yritysvastuun umpikuja (Impasse of the Corporate Responsibility). Helsinki: Into. 2013. . Heikki Patomäki and Teivo Teivainen: Ālam āḫir mumkin: al-taḥawwul al-dīmuqrāṭī lil-mu'assasāt al-ālamīya. Cairo: Al-Markaz al-Qaumī. 2008. Heikki Patomäki and Teivo Teivainen: Democracia global. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. 2008. . Heikki Patomäki and Teivo Teivainen: A Possible World: Democratic Transformation of Global Institutions. London: Zed Books. 2004. . Teivo Teivainen: Pedagogía del poder mundial. Relaciones internacionales y lecciones del desarrollo en América Latina. Lima: Cedep. 2003. 5-TEI-PED. Heikki Patomäki and Teivo Teivainen: Globaali Demokratia (Global Democracy). London: Zed Books. 2003. . Teivo Teivainen: Enter Economism, Exit Politics: Experts, Economic Policy and