Kalev Stoicescu Contributed to a Debating Europe’s Project
ICDS Fellow Researcher Kalev Stoicescu contributed to Debating Europe’s project “Has Putin succeeded in splitting the Western alliance?”
Read more
International Affairs & Foreign Policy
The Prospects of a “Flexible Union”
Dr. Pauli Järvenpää, Senior Research Fellow at the ICDS, participated in a Roundtable on The Baltic Region and the Prospects of a “Flexible Union” in Foreign Policy, Security and Economic Cooperation, held on 2 November 2017 in Vilnius.
Read more
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.
Read more
ICDS Chief Executive Participated in the 2017 Chatham House London Conference
ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the Chatham House London Conference, which gathered more than 150 thinkers, policymakers and experts from all over the world.
Read more
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.
Read more
Reimagining the European Union – High-Level Conference in Tallinn on 9-10 October
Estonia has thus far made a good use of its six-month presidency of the Council of the EU by pushing ahead flagship projects such as the digital market and cyber defence.
Read more
Possible Outcome of the Kurdistan Referendum
Euphoric festivities continue in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, and flags depicting a yellow sun are flying high.
Read more
The Unfolding Crisis in the Korean Peninsula
On 27 September, the International Centre for Defence and Security organised a discussion on the topic “The unfolding crisis in the Korean peninsula”, where Marko Mihkelson, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian parliament Riigikogu; Hannes Hanso, Chairman of the National Defence Committee and Monika Reinem, Estonian Ministry of Defence Policy Planning Department’s expert on Asia, shared their expert opinions.
Read more
Is North Korea About to Launch Another Hot and Cold War?
In June 1950, North Koreans led by Kim Jong-un’s grandfather, the “immortal leader” Kim Il-sung, invaded South Korea with backing from the Soviet Union and communist China.
Read more
Picture Rex Tillerson and Ri Yong-Ho Walking alongside Lake Geneva?
Most recent commentary on Kim Jong-un’s reasoning to continue with his nuclear programme rarely fails to invoke (the rogue state’s lessons learned from) the examples of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
Read more