When it comes to intellectual discussions about foreign policy, as recently as 10 years ago the question about the future seemed simple: Fukuyama or Huntington, the end of history or the clash of civilisations?!
- György Schöpflin
Authoritarian capitalists, especially Russia, spotted a political vacuum - that there is no political control over economic actors to speak of - and decided to move into the vacant space.
- Edward Lucas
Just as NATO would not have arranged its defence spending solely to suit arms manufacturers during the old Cold War, the West now must make its banks' and energy companies' commercial interests take second place to the question...
- Anders Åslund
Why have Russia and some other post-Soviet countries experienced an authoritarian slide? And is this renewed authoritarian rule likely to be stable?
- Ivan Krastev
The real source of the confrontation between Russia and the European Union today is not rival interests or unshared values. It is political incompatibility: the clash between the post-modern state embodied by the EU and the...
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Engaging in a period of reflection in order to minimise unwanted and unwarranted disputes, we must adopt a policy toward Russia of benign neglect.
- Jüri Luik
Jüri Luik calls for the establishment of a commission for the investigation of Communist crimes in Europe.
- Kadri Liik
If memories of the Second World War were de-Stalinised, the different interpretations of history in Russia and Estonia could, to a large extent, be united and harmonised.
- Lars Freden
I would like to talk today about the mysterious power of Lennart Meri's personality. I thought about it a lot at the time and have thought about it often since.
