Trump’s Move on Jerusalem
On 22 May 2017, Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to set foot in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Read moreOn 22 May 2017, Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to set foot in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Read moreOn 7 and 8 December, Fellow Researcher Kalev Stoicescu gave comments to two Estonian TV channels on President Donald Trump’s decision on Jerusalem.
Read moreEuphoric festivities continue in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, and flags depicting a yellow sun are flying high.
Read moreQatar, a country four times smaller than Estonia in terms of area but two times larger in view of population, faced the largest diplomatic crisis in its history when Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ceased communication with the small nation and closed the common borders shared with it.
Read moreMoscow’s defense establishment annually reflects on achievements in modernizing and enhancing combat capability and readiness levels in the Russian Armed Forces.
Read moreICDS Research Fellows Tony Lawrence, Tomas Jermalavičius and Anna Bulakh presented their report, “Soldiers of Peace: Estonia, Finland and Ireland in UNIFIL” at a seminar at ICDS on 13 December.
Read moreEstonian, Finnish and Irish troops serve under a combined battalion in the UNIFIL mission in south Lebanon. The size of the contribution these three states make to UN peacekeeping is perhaps not well known – they are respectively the fourth, second and first largest European contributors, per capita, to UN missions. For each of them, UNIFIL is their single largest contribution to peace support operations.
Read moreICDS non-resident research fellow Helga Kalm commented in Vikerraadio on Turkey`s latest progress and development with Klen Jäärats and Aarne Rannamäe.
Read moreThe writing of the new European Union Global Strategy comes at a difficult time. The world has become more and more volatile and there are crises on Europe’s eastern, southeastern and southern flanks. Although the conflicts in the south and the east are very different in nature, they both highlight the need for the EU to strengthen its foreign and security policy to better respond to a hybrid blend of challenges, which involve military and non-military, conventional and unconventional methods and tactics. The Global Strategy has the difficult task of setting the EU’s interests and objectives in respect of global security as well as the means to achieve them in the medium and long term.
Read moreICDS Research Fellow Helga Kalm together with Member of Parliament Mr Marko Mihkelson commented on the radio program Välismääraja on the crisis between Saudi Arabia and Iran. They discussed the implication of the current crisis on the wider region and whether the lifting of sanctions might escalate tensions even further.
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