Estonia’s role in the world is not only related to our geographical location, instead, our future is increasingly shaped by global developments. Who will become a global superpower? What will be the position of Europe in the new world order – and Estonia’s place in that Europe? How should we face the new threats surrounding us? Is NATO the only answer?
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Donald Trump should realise that giving a military strike on Iran will not bring Tehran to the negotiating table and creates risk for outbreak of a major regional conflict, writes Kalev Stoicescu, a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security and columnist in daily Postimees on July 19.
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“If there were a military outbreak in [Iran], the consequences would be catastrophic, studies show,” Kalev Stoicescu, a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security, said on July 9 on Vikerraadio, Estonian Public Broadcasing, commenting on Iran’s uranium enrichment and mounting tensions around the Persian Gulf.
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The Baltic region is making a significant progress in developing functioning regional natural gas market, expanding and integrating the related infrastructure, and ensuring the security of supply.
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Washington’s recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory reveals once again a problematic tendency in contemporary international law: its fragmentation along regional or national lines.
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Since the Munich Security Conference, the headlines have been full of doom and gloom and an open rift between the US and Europe.
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In the last days before the State of the Union Address (SOTU) by President Donald Trump a state of near-panic descended upon the defence and foreign affairs chattering classes in Europe.
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“Naming and shaming does not work on Russia’s leaders because they don’t feel shame,” Sven Sakkov, Director of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), told Finnish daily Turun Sanomat after debunking three myths about cyber security at the Salo Cyber Talks event on 29 January.
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To fight a cyber-attack or cyber terrorist you must have John McClane in the ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ movie at hand. Luckily this is not the case in real life.
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In early April 2018, President Donald Trump made the sensational announcement that US troops would be withdrawn from Syria “very soon”.
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