As global power shifts, how can we ensure that Allies and partners remain committed to security at the West’s peripheries in the Baltic Sea region, and build effective deterrence against Russia?...
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The world of yesterday is gone or rapidly eroding, and it makes it hard to establish foreign policy directions. In the great power competition, Europe seems to be confused because Russia today is not...
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We are delighted to announce that four distinguished experts have joined the ICDS team as non-resident research fellows....
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In 2020, the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (EFPI) of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) engaged with several new priorities of Estonia’s foreign...
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2020 has shaken the world, but is there a glimmer of hope at the end of the year? In the transatlantic community expectations are high for some sort of renaissance in relations between Europe and the...
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ICDS research fellows Martin Hurt and Tomas Jermalavičius contributed to the publication “Towards #NATO2030: The Regional Perspective of the Baltic States and Poland”, a project managed by the...
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“The strategy of information de-occupation should already be assessing the potential readiness of the whole Ukrainian society and its various vulnerable groups for a full-scale reintegration, which...
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Russia is a great power, and its determination to remain one is well understood by the countries that border it. But Russia’s interests also connect with the challenges and problems of an often...
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Russia’s attention to history – especially to WWII or what they call Great Patriotic War – has steadily grown since 1995 and has by now exceeded the Soviet era and is still growing, Dr Ivo...
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ICDS head of security and resilience programme / research fellow Ivo Juurvee and Diana Marnot analysed narratives on the Nordic-Baltic countries promoted by Russia in a chapter in NATO StratCom CoE...
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