European and Estonian security
Secretary general of the Estonian Defence Ministry Mikk Marran and UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous signed a memorandum of intent in New York regarding Estonia’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations. According to the agreement signed at UN headquarters, Estonia will regularly inform the organisation of military observers and staff officers …
Estonia to increase contribution to UN peacekeeping operations Read More »
President Ilves today addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security in the UK House of Commons, upon the invitation of its treasurer, James Morris MP. The key theme of the President’s remarks was identity and, more specifically, who should be responsible for securing and guaranteeing it in society. He …
Every few years, the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) publishes studies of how the world might evolve over the next two decades. Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, released in December 2012, is the latest such iteration. Its four scenarios include one in which the United States turns inward and economic globalisation …
Forecasting the Baltics’ future security environment Read More »
Russia is poised to gain technical superiority over NATO in areas that are crucial to the defence of the Baltic states. Scandinavian defence pundits are a sober bunch. But the latest report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency is a gripping read. Its 115 pages offer the first comprehensive and …
Edward Lucas: The Baltic states – defending the least defensible? Read More »
Iivi Anna Masso interviewed Carl Bildt for the Estonian magazine Diplomaatia when Bildt took part of Lennart Meri Conference this spring. Full version of the article can be found here. You wrote beautifully in your blog when President Ilves visited Sweden at the beginning of 2011 of how his parents had …
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt: “The future of democratic capitalism is bright” Read More »
The British minister in charge of cyber-security, Mr Francis Maude, thinks that the cyber-attack against Estonia in 2007 was a big wake-up call for the world, adding that a balance should be struck between cyber-security and personal freedoms. This article was first published by the Estonian foreign policy magazine Diplomaatia. Interview by …
Francis Maude: The cyber-attack against Estonia was a big wake-up call for the world Read More »