Estonia in the UN Security Council: A History in Three Crises
Estonia was an elected member of the UN Security Council in 2020-2021.
Read moreEstonia was an elected member of the UN Security Council in 2020-2021.
Read moreThe revolution in Germany’s security and defence policy following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rightly received much attention. But other European states, like Sweden, are responding in unprecedented ways too.
Read moreEver since the oft-violated cease-fire accord of 1994, Russian interests have defined the art of the possible in Karabakh. Whether Russia connived in conflicts, acquiesced in them or prevented them, the protagonists understood that it would be their ultimate arbiter. Even Russia’s titular partners in the OSCE Minsk Group — perhaps the sole format of post-Cold War cooperation to preserve its relevance — never challenged its standing as first amongst equals. Whatever its ups and downs, this was a closed game.
Read moreRussia is busy in its Western Military District, especially in Belarus—now undoubtedly the Kremlin’s main political and military priority—where the situation remains volatile.
Read morePresident Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s dream ended on 4 March. On that date he dismissed ten of the most reformist ministers of his still newly formed government.
Read moreOver the years, the United States has supported the Afghan authorities in their talks with the insurgents.
Read moreThe long-awaited and much-debated official adoption of the so-called Donbas De-Occupation Law by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada provoked a heated discussion in Ukrainian society over the last three months on whether this legal act is merely a symbolic (if communicatively important) gesture to label Russia as a state aggressor, or whether it reflects a serious intention to create a strong foundation for the region’s re-integration.
Read moreThe topic of bringing UN peacekeeping forces to the east of Ukraine is once again making rounds these days, even though the “mantra” itself is quite old.
Read moreICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the panel discussion “Social consequences of the war in Eastern Ukraine”, held in the framework of the X Europe-Ukraine Forum in Rzeszów, Poland on 27-28 January 2017.
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