Despite the geographical distance between them, Estonia and Japan share many similar security challenges, such as potential destabilisation in cyberspace due to geopolitical tensions and conflicts,...
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Close transatlantic cooperation remains of strategic importance at a time when Western democratic and economic systems are under increasing pressure and the list of international challenges that...
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Held on 19-20 November 2020, the international autumn school Resilience League addressed the issues of historical memory and remembrance, disinformation campaigns, cognitive resilience and...
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Nuclear energy development projects involving Russia’s state-owned corporation Rosatom come with many geopolitical strings and security risks attached. Thus, Rosatom’s nuclear power plants...
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The Arctic is a very fragile region. However, it is also an area of great power competition with Russia being an Arctic military superpower and China widening and deepening its role and seeking...
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As part of the “Back to School” (Tagasi Kooli) programme, ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik gave a short virtual lecture in Russian to students about bots and trolls on social networks,...
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The Annual Baltic Conference on Defence 2020 (ABCD 2020) covered three main topics: the security and defence policy implications of COVID-19; deterrence and defence in the Baltic Sea region; and the...
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“Ukraine has never succeeded, yet it has never failed either,” James Sherr OBE, senior fellow of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (EFPI) at the ICDS presented his recent report “Nothing...
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Amélie de Montchalin, French Minister of State for European Affairs, in charge of European Affairs, visited ICDS on 1 July 2020....
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In the event of a major crisis or war in the Baltic region, NATO’s reinforcement of the local armed forces and enhanced Forward Presence battlegroups would require the rapid movement of large and...
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