Recent publications Policy Brief on the EU’s Eastern Partnership and Estonia Words and Steel War of Nerves in the Caucasus The Gap between Ambitions and Realities in Russia The Russian Bear on the Warpath Against Georgia
Kaarel Kaas Junior Researcher Kaarel[@]icds.ee		Projects | Publications

Kaarel Kaas works as a junior researcher for the Defence and Force Planning Project of the International Centre for Defence Studies. He also co-edits the Centre’s magazine, Diplomaatia.

From 1998-2003, Kaarel worked as a reporter at Estonia’s leading daily newspaper, Postimees, covering mainly politics and defence and security related issues.
From 2003-2006 he was Postimees’s foreign news editor, in which position he also filed reports from various global hot spots.

Since joining ICDS he has continued to publish columns on defence and security policy in the Estonian media.

Kaarel was born on the 8th of March 1978 in Tallinn, Estonia.