On May 1, the International Centre for Defence Studies (ICDS) in Tallinn welcomed a new staff member, Ambassador Pauli Järvenpää – a former Finnish diplomat and senior government official.
Today, May 2, 2013, William Echikson, Head of Free Expression Policy and PR for Europe, Middle East, & Africa at Google, visited ICDS for a private discussion on the need to protect information infrastructure without jeopardizing...
On 27 March, International Centre for Defence Studies held a seminar to present a recently published paper on how to facilitate emergence of a free-market trading system for natural gas in the Baltic Sea region, which will deepen...
Piret Karus joined the International Centre for Defence Studies in February 2013 as a project assistant tasked with providing technical support to the Estonian National Defence Course.
Europe has realized the necessity to diversify its energy supply “beyond Gazprom’s monopoly” emphasized Ambassador Matthew Bryza, Director of the International Centre for Defence Studies, during a discussion with students of the...
On February 21, the International Centre for Defence Studies, in partnership with the Estonian Ministry of Defence and the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, held a half-day workshop on dual-use research and technology (R&T)....
On 4 October, the Embassy of Austria in Tallinn, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, International Centre for Defence Studies, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs co-organized a seminar on Regional and European Perspectives of the...
The influential Annual Baltic Conference on Defence (ABCD) was held in Tallinn, Estonia, on September 19–20, bringing together international high-level military officials, policymakers and experts for intense discussions on...
On September 5-6, ICDS Director Bryza joined Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, the first High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, as the keynote speakers for a conference at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany, on...
Today, Anne Applebaum, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist of international renown, held an informal round table discussion at ICDS with Estonian foreign and security policy experts.
