Areas of expertise: Russia, transatlantic relations
Languages: English, Estonian
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15. May, 2022
LMC 2022: How Much Pain Is the West Ready to Endure?
The LMC 2022 (15th Lennart Meri Conference, 13-15 May 2022, Tallinn) was the first major international foreign and security policy…
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Events
06. Sep, 2021
LMC 2021: We Should Remember the Achievements of Democracy During These Challenging Times
At this year’s Lennart Meri Conference, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, Kaush Arha, noted that “democracy is quite robust…
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News
13. Apr, 2021
NEW DATES: Lennart Meri Conference 3-5 September 2021
The 14th Lennart Meri Conference (LMC) was initially planned for May 2020 and then for May 14-16, 2021 in Tallinn,…
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News
01. Apr, 2021
LMC Talks with Merle Maigre & Ciaran Martin: Cyberspace as the Common Good
Internet and digital technologies that create cyberspace are transforming society, business, and politics. People respond to new opportunities online, react…
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News
12. Feb, 2021
LMC Talks with Jüri Luik & Carl Bildt: Cooperation in Deterrence in the Nordic-Baltic Region
As global power shifts, how can we ensure that Allies and partners remain committed to security at the West’s peripheries…
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News
25. Jan, 2021
LMC Talks with Kadri Liik & Thomas Bagger: Time for International Sobriety
The world of yesterday is gone or rapidly eroding, and it makes it hard to establish foreign policy directions. In…
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News
28. Dec, 2020
LMC Talks with Toomas Hendrik Ilves & Kurt Volker: A Glimmer of Hope at the End of 2020?
2020 has shaken the world, but is there a glimmer of hope at the end of the year? In the…
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News
07. Dec, 2020
LMC Talks with James Sherr OBE & Dmitry Suslov: Russia’s Place in the Evolving International Disorder
Russia is a great power, and its determination to remain one is well understood by the countries that border it.…
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News
06. Nov, 2020
LMC Talks with Toomas Hendrik Ilves & Anne Applebaum: The Era of Resentment: Causes and Solutions
In this session of the Lennart Meri Conference Talks, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Pulitzer-prize winning historian and…
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News
16. Oct, 2020
Welcome to Lennart Meri Conference Talks
ICDS is bringing the spirit of the Lennart Meri Conference online. Over the coming months, we will be challenging leading…
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Commentary
15. May, 2020
Man Plans, and God Laughs
What you have just opened was initially planned as the printed special edition of Diplomaatia (the ICDS’s foreign- and security-policy…
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News
06. Jun, 2019
Eeva Eek-Pajuste to WTOP: Europe Needs to Quickly Educate Specialists Who Are Able to Adjust to China’s Mindset and Policy Culture
Eeva Eek-Pajuste, the director of the Lennart Meri Conference/ICDS, said in an interview to WTOP (Washington’s Top News) that Europe…
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Commentary
24. May, 2019
Lennart Meri Conference 2019: China Is Here to Stay
Lennart Meri once said: “Politics is a factory producing the future”. The Lennart Meri Conference (LMC) 2019 tried to peep…
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Commentary
15. May, 2019
What Does the Future Look Like?
“Europe has one past, but an infinite number of futures,” president Lennart Meri said, thus emphasising that nothing is predestined.…
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