The Crisis in Ukraine and the Baltic Sea Region: A Spillover of the Conflict?

This memo discusses the implications of the current crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations for the Baltic Sea region (BSR), for many years considered one of the greatest success stories of regional…

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Eastern Partnerships: Is Germany Driving or Riding?

The more German experts discuss the recent Bundestag election, the more paradoxes they unveil. For example, many note that Germany has become more Euro-sceptic even though they predict that the…

Estonia and Russia Through a Three-Way Mirror: Views of the Post-Soviet Generation

Co-authors: Heather Conley, Lucy Moore Twenty years after independence, Estonia has joined the European Union, NATO, and, most recently, the Eurozone. Yet the country continues to struggle in its relationship…

Caught in Between: Citizenship, Identity, and Young Ethnic Russians in Estonia

Days after U.S. President Barack Obama’s Moscow summit and just before Vice President Joe Biden’s departure for Ukraine, nearly two dozen former leaders and foreign policy experts from Eastern Europe…

May 9th and Russia: Past, Present and Future

History is complicated, and important. One of my dearest friends was born in a refugee camp in Germany after the war: her family was one of the lucky ones that…

The Baltic-Black Sea Connection: A Region in the Making or a Political Project?

Russia’s border with its immediate European neighbors is shaped through a variety of transborder initiatives, each of which has its own regionbuilding potential. These initiatives lack a single source. Transborder…

Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, and Baltic Security

As a small Russian exclave some 300 kilometers away from the bulk of the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Oblast is rarely mentioned in discussions of NATO expansion. (Kaliningrad is the Russian…

Urmas Paet, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs: Why the European Union Still Matters

(Event) Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet joined IERES at the Elliott School of International Affairs on Tuesday, March 27, for an interesting discussion about the status and future of the…

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