The fundamental convictions of the current Russian leaders and of the West as well as the basic interests deriving therefrom are completely incompatible by now. This is why the West has to redefine...
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An era of instability awaits Europe. Decisive action is...
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Should a member of the armed forces be permitted to publicly criticise his or her government’s security and defence policy? From the viewpoint of democratic civil-military relations the answer is,...
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Democratic control of national defence is a much more difficult challenge than generally recognised. Membership of NATO or the European Union does not automatically guarantee...
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Robert Schumann, the French Foreign Minister whose declaration to the international press in Paris, on 9 May 1950, is celebrated as the start of the process that would lead to the European Union, was...
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In the aftermath of Angela Merkel’s annual meeting with her Russian counterpart many a gloomy prophecy as to the far reaching implications of this meeting has been given voice. Whether it be...
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The October issue of Diplomaatia resumes the discussion on the Russia-Georgia war after which the whole global order has shifted; in addition, the topic of the upcoming US presidential elections is...
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In the process of developing his innovative theories of microeconomics, the 20th century’s most influential economist, John Maynard Keynes, repeatedly came to the conclusion that his earlier...
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The rapid evolution of the Estonian statehood and abrupt social changes have by the outset of the 21st century created a sense of...
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Recently, the term nation building that came to describe the creation of nation states in the 19th and early 20th century, has begun to take on a new meaning. A dozen of years ago at the University...
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