The Arctic is an enormous area surrounding the North Pole, which encompasses over one sixth of the world’s land mass. The majority of the Arctic is made up of the ocean, which is covered by an ice...
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The policy paper explores the rationale for investing in the so-called dual-use research and technology (R&T) to support Estonia’s national defence, civil security and public safety policy...
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More than two decades after the end of the Soviet occupation, and eight years after they joined NATO and the European Union, the Baltic republics remain disintegrated from the rest of Europe in one...
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This background paper, which has been prepared in response to a request from the Estonian Ministry of Defence, investigates the feasibility of assessing the cost of a conflict on Estonian territory,...
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As part of its mission to sharpen strategic thinking and inform public debate on issues of critical importance to the security of Estonia and the Euro-Atlantic community, the International Centre for...
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After a late start, the European Union has recently begun to recognize the extent and severity of the challenges posed by cybersecurity threats. Whereas such concerns were previously restricted to a...
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A research team led by the International Centre for Defence Studies (ICDS) was asked by the Foreign Policy Committee of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament) to undertake research on the topic of...
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Two years ago Estonia's strategic national security and defence documents put forward the idea of 'psychological defence' as a means to protect the values and cohesion of Estonian society from...
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Tony Lawrence contributed an article about Estonia’s position on ballistic missile defence to a Ukrainian project that explored various European views on the...
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This ICDS Policy Paper was conceived as part of the on-going effort by the Baltic states to give substance to the idea of closer trilateral collaboration in the defence-related research and...
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