Diplomacy Diminishes Due to the Threat of War
The past few months have been characterised by diplomatic missteps and an increasing threat of war. It is our duty in Estonia to observe and analyse these developments, because global events...
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No. 194 • October 2019
Another Western Attempt to Charm Russia
The West has trouble understanding the cards played by the...
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Iran and the West: A Journey with Stopovers
Recent events signal an increasing risk of war with...
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US Policy Towards the Arctic: Adapting to a Changing Environment
Regardless of the reasons for US president Donald Trump’s mercurial cancellation of his planned state visit to Denmark earlier this year—whether due to the Danish refusal to sell Greenland to the...
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Russia’s Pivot to the East: Between China, the US and the Other Asia
Since the announcement of Russia’s “pivot to Asia” in 2012, exemplified in one of prime minister and then-presidential candidate Vladimir Putin’s pre-election articles 1 and proven by...
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What Did Russia’s Strategic Military Exercise Tsentr-2019 Reveal?
On 16–21 September, Russia held one of its strategic-level military exercises—traditionally rotating each year between four strategic theatres and bearing the names Zapad (in 2009, 2013 and...
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From the Comintern to Putin: Russian Ties with Italy
Roots This article does not look at the Italian far-right (e.g. Matteo Salvini) and their relations with Russia,1 although...
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