On Monday, 9 November 2020, ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik and other experts briefed the members of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic...
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In this session of the Lennart Meri Conference Talks, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Pulitzer-prize winning historian and staff writer for The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum get into...
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The Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (EFPI) at the ICDS together with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs will explore in a new project the risks and...
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The supervisory board of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) selected Indrek Kannik to be the new Director of the ICDS following a public competition. Kannik will take up his...
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ICDS is bringing the spirit of the Lennart Meri Conference online. Over the coming months, we will be challenging leading foreign and security policy thinkers around the world to address topical...
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At the Annual Baltic Conference on Defence (ABCD) on 30 September, representatives from NATO, Allies and partners, as well as defence and security experts and reserve officers will examine the impact...
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Tomas Jermalavičius, Tony Lawrence, and ICDS intern Anna-Liisa Merilind contributed a chapter to a book recently published by the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania entitled...
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NATO’s collective defence would be weakened if the decision by US President Donald Trump to reduce US troops numbers in Germany will be fully implemented as there would be far fewer quick...
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“This is very much a win for Russian security,” Tony Lawrence of the ICDS told the Washington Examiner, discussing reports that President Donald Trump had called for a withdrawal of 9,500 U.S....
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The Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and the Estonian Ministry of Rural Affairs commissioned the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) to compile a list of...
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