Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, Author at Estonian World

Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson

Hannes H. Gissurarson is a professor of politics at the University of Iceland and director of research at RNH, the Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth. The author of several books in Icelandic, English and Swedish, he has been on the governing boards of the Central Bank of Iceland and the Mont Pelerin Society and a visiting scholar or professor at Stanford, UCLA, LUISS, George Mason and several other universities. His most recent work is Twenty-Four Conservative-Liberal Thinkers (2020) in 884 pages, first and second volume.

The foreign ministers of Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signed documents recognising the restoration of independence of the Baltic states and the establishment of diplomatic relations on 26 August 1991 at Höfði House in Reykjavik. Front row from the left: Algirdas Saudargas, Lithuania, Janis Jurkans, Latvia, Lennart Meri, Estonia, and Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson, Iceland; photo by the Icelandic foreign ministry.

A memorable dinner: the seven days in August that decided the fate of Estonia

Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson / August 19, 2024

The fate of the Baltic countries was decided during seven days in August 1991; Hannes H. Gissurarson, a professor of politics at the University of Iceland, recalls the events as they unfolded as Iceland became the first nation to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. The phone rang in my Reykjavik flat. It was […]

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