NATO’s current strategic concept was approved in 1999, yet many pivotal events that have had a dramatic impact on NATO have taken place after...
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The article is an extended version of the speech given by the author at the Engelsberg seminar "On Russia," organized by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation on June 12-14 2008. The same...
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Since Russia’s aggression against Georgia in August, a number of Ukrainian and foreign politicians, diplomats and security policy analysts have warned that Ukraine and Crimea could become...
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The International Centre for Defence Studies presents a paper to provide you with background information on the Georgian-Russian crisis. The author Kaarel Kaas describes and analyses the most...
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NATO members will have to decide at the Bucharest summit at the beginningof April whether to respond positively to requests made by Ukraine andGeorgia to receive a Membership Action Plan (MAP) or...
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An article by ICDS director Kadri Liik, The “Bronze Year” of Estonia-Russia relations, appeared in the 2007 Yearbook of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was issued for the 90th...
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An article by ICDS researcher Maria Mälksoo, discussing East Europeans’ experience of liminal Europeanness, appeared in the 2007 Yearbook of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was...
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