Pauli Järvenpää: Can Estonia be defended?
A recent report by the RAND think tank concluded that Russian forces could reach the outskirts of Tallinn in just 60 hours. Pauli Järvenpää, a …
Pauli Järvenpää
Dr Pauli Järvenpää, a former Finnish diplomat and a senior government official, joined the International Centre for Defence and Security on 1 May 2013. As a senior research fellow at the ICDS, he focuses on the security of the Baltic Sea and Nordic region and on issues related to NATO, the EU and transatlantic cooperation, as well as on the security and development of Afghanistan. Järvenpää most recently served as the Finnish ambassador to Afghanistan (2010-2013). Before that he was the director general of the Defence Policy Department at the Finnish Ministry of Defence (2002-2010) and the defence advisor at the Mission of Finland to NATO in Brussels (1999-2002).
