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 moreICDS Fellow Researcher Kalev Stoicescu contributed to Debating Europe’s project “Has Putin succeeded in splitting the Western alliance?”
Read moreDr. 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 moreInvited 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 moreICDS 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 moreOn 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 moreEstonia 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 moreEuphoric festivities continue in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, and flags depicting a yellow sun are flying high.
Read moreOn 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 moreIn 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 moreMost 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.
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