The Kremlin’s Message to Yerevan: Have Your Power Shift, But Remain Our Loyal Vassals
Armenia has no serious foreign-policy partners besides Russia
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Central & Eastern Europe
Ukraine: is there a Future Beyond the Status Quo?
The West should come up with a totally different response
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How to Keep the Estonian Flame Alive Abroad?
The objective of Estonia’s values-based foreign policy is to help compatriots outside the borders of our historical homeland, too
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Kyiv Political Scientist: Ukraine Wants a New Leader, But There Are No Candidates
Ukrainians are more interested in economic questions than corruption
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Western Balkans: EU Promises Membership to Alleviate Tension
Russia and China have already gained a foothold in the Balkans without setting terms for cooperation. Is the EU too late?
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Poland: From EU Model Student to Hungary-like Misfit
Poland’s new government has shaped the country after its own image in just a few years
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ICDS Researcher Presented on Estonian Experience in Belgrade
On 15-16 November International Republican Institute’s Beacon Project and the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies hosted a roundtables under unifying name “Forgotten Frontiers: Raising awareness on the threat to Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans”
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Dmitri Teperik on Security Dimension of the Trimarium Initiative
Invited by the Polish Institute for Eastern Studies, ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik gave a speech on security dimension of the Trimarium initiative, a regional project aimed at promoting and developing cooperation among the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Zapad-2017: What Did These Military Exercises Reveal?
Russia sees NATO, not terrorism, as its main adversary in the Baltic Sea region
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Presentation of the Three Seas Initiative
On 17 October, ICDS hosted a presentation of the Three Seas Initiative, which is a forum of European Union countries in Eastern and Central Europe.
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