The ICDS organises its research into three broad programmes:
DEFENCE POLICY AND STRATEGY
This programme aims to advance strategic thought on the key issues of transatlantic, European, regional and national defence (‘hard security’).
- Air Power
- Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD)
- Armed Conflicts
- Arms Control
- Arms Trade & Military Technology Transfers
- Capabilities & capability planning
- Civil-Military Relations
- Command & Control
- Conscription
- Cyber Defence
- Cyber, Electronic & Space Warfare
- Defence Acquisition
- Defence Concepts and Doctrines
- Defence Cooperation
- Defence Industry & Markets
- Defence Innovation
- Defence Logistics
- Defence Personnel
- Defence Reforms
- Defence Research & Technology
- Defence Spending
- Deterrence
- Enhanced Forward Presence
- EU Common Security & Defence Policy (CSDP)
- Insurgency & Counter-insurgency
- Integrated Air & Missile Defence
- Irregular Warfare
- Land Power
- Maritime Power
- Military Operations
- NATO
- NATO‘s Southern Flank
- NATO’s Eastern Flank
- Nordic Defence Cooperation (NORDEFCO)
- Nuclear Policy
- Private Military Companies
- Reserve Forces & Defence Volunteers
- Society & Defence
- Territorial Defence
- Training & Exercises
- UN Peacekeeping
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Women & Defence
SECURITY AND RESILIENCE
Through this programme ICDS addresses non-military threats to national and international security (‘soft security’ issues) and the ways of building broad-based national resilience.
- Border Security & Migration
- Civil Protection
- Comprehensive Security
- Conflict Management & Resolution
- Crisis Management
- Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
- Cyber Security
- Economic Security
- Energy Security
- Environmental Security
- Espionage
- EU Global Strategy
- Failed States
- Hostile Influence Strategies & Operations
- Human Security
- Hybrid Threats
- Information Warfare
- Intelligence & Counter-intelligence
- Internal Security
- Maritime Security
- National Resilience
- National Security
- Non-Proliferation
- Politics, Political Systems & Governance
- Security Sector Reforms
- Social Cohesion & Integration
- Strategic & Dual-Use Technologies
- Strategic Communication
- Sustainable Development
- Terrorism & Counterterrorism
- Threat & Risk Assessments
- Ukraine Civil Society and Security
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN POLICY
This programme aims to advance strategic thinking about the short, medium and long-term foreign policy and geopolitical issues affecting Estonia, NATO and the EU.
- Afghanistan
- African Union
- Al Qaeda
- Arctic Council
- Balkans
- Baltic Sea Region
- Baltic States
- Belarus
- Black Sea Region
- Brexit
- Central & Eastern Europe
- Central Asia
- China
- Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)
- Daesh
- East Asia
- Eastern Partnership
- Estonia
- Eurasian Union
- European Strategic Autonomy
- European Union
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
- High North
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Middle East & North Africa (MENA)
- Moldova
- NATO‘s Global Partners
- Nordic-Baltic Region
- North Korea
- Organisation for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Poland
- Republic of Korea (ROK)
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Caucasus
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Sweden
- Syria
- Trans-Atlantic Relations
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United Nations (UN)
- United States of America
- Visegrad Group (V4)
DIPLOMAATIA
The research topics for Diplomaatia paper issue.
- Africa
- Asia
- Book reviews
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Central Asia
- Cyber Security
- Defence policy concepts
- Energy Security
- Estonian foreign and security policy
- European Union
- Foreign policy concepts
- In memoriam.
- International organizations
- Miscellaneous
- NATO
- Nordic-Baltic Region
- Russia
- South America
- United States of America
- Wider Middle East