It seems that Lennart Meri's faith in institutions was a matter of instinct. But is instinct anything more than using a combination of all of one's senses, information and...
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Lennart's resolute activity on the international scene left the world with an image of Estonia as an old Western democracy with a deeply entwined intellectual and cultural connection with the rest of...
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Lennart Meri understood both how difficult it was to bridge the gap between Arnold Rüütel and Ernst Jaakson and how important it was to do...
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Among domestic policy makers, Lennart Meri had a better understanding of the international dimension than anyone...
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With his foreign policy education accomplished with great difficulty and hampered by radio jammers, Meri became the unexpected figure who confounded all of the West's expectations for the Baltic...
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No longer is it possible for anyone to claim that Estonia is under some historical curse, where one misfortune follows another. In the last decade of the brutal and restless 20th century, Estonia was...
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The summer issue of Diplomaatia discusses the current crises in the European Union. Estonian MEP Toomas Hendrik Ilves argues that it is the new member states that suffer the most from the Union's...
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In this issue of Diplomaatia, Siim Kallas, the European Commissioner from Estonia, writes about the European Union and historical memory. In his opinion, it is the historical memory of European...
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Diplomaatia has interviewed Estonian diplomats, politicians and experts, who one way or another were instrumental in negotiating the border agreements, to get the "inside story" of the border...
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One could say that diplomacy is the implementation technology of foreign policy. The output of foreign policy consists of messages or content and diplomacy provides the most appropriate means for its...
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