08.02.10
Autor: Merle Maigre
Viktor Janukovitš on ilmselt Ukraina järgmine president. Lõplikke hääli veel loetakse. Ja siis loetakse veel üle. Aga nimetada Janukovitši 2%-list võitu Julia Timošenko ees „napiks“ oleks kentsakas, sest jutt käib mitmesajast tuhandest häälest.
Mis saab edasi? Janukovitši enda sõnul on nüüd „oranž košmaar läbi“. Ukrainat ootab helesinine homne. Algab stagnatsiooniajastu, nendivad pessimistid nukralt. Visandan kiire ülevaate sellest, mida Viktor Janukovitšilt lõppenud valimiskampaania ja 2006-2007 peaministri töö põhjal oodata võib.
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postitas: ICDS
05.02.10
Autor: Kaarel Kaas
Tänavu veebruaris 90. aastat tagasi sülmiti Eesti ja Nõukogude Venemaa vahel Eesti vabadussõja lõpetanud Tartu rahuleping. Sellele tähtpäevale pühendet kuukirja Diplomaatia veebruarinumbri avaloos kirjutab õigusteadlane Peeter Järvelaid nii Tartu rahu kohast Euroopa õigusajaloos, tähendusest Eesti kaasaegseile kui ka rahulepingu sepistajatest.
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28.01.10
Autor: Tomas Jermalavicius
In the eyes of the outside observer, Estonia’s intelligence and security services maintain a rather low-key profile in country’s public affairs, as befits their secretive and subtle mission. They have had their share of bad publicity and embarrassment – Herman Simm’s treason as well as scandalous allegations of illicit wiretapping activities by military intelligence spring into mind. But all this is nothing compared to the storms that battered Lithuania’s main intelligence and security organisation, the State Security Department, or VSD, over the last few years. (Not to mention past scandals of varying degree that hit other Lithuanian security and intelligence services such as the anti-corruption agency STT or military intelligence and counterintelligence service AOTD).
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21.01.10
Autor: Anthony Lawrence
There will be a general election in the UK this year, after which whoever wins will carry out a defence review. This will be the first since the 1997 Strategic Defence Review, which re-focused the UK’s armed forces from their Cold War role towards being a “force for good in the world”. The preliminary work is already underway and, not least because of substantial pressure on the UK defence budget, it seems that even key acquisition projects will be up for debate. These include, notably, the future carrier programme, the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) programme, the Typhoon (Eurofighter) programme and even the independent nuclear deterrent.
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19.01.10
Ukraina presidendivalimiste esimene voor lõppes tulemusega, mida oodati: enim hääli sai Viktor Janukovitsh, teiseks tuli Julia Tõmoshenko. 7. veebruaril toimuvas teises voorus on aga võiduvõimalused mõlemal; mitmed analüütikud prognoosivad Tõmoshenko edu. RKK ekspertide arvamusi Ukraina sise- ja välispoliitika ning valimiste kohta saab leida allolevatelt linkidelt:
Välisilm, 18.01.2010
Välismääraja, 17.01.2010
Vabariigi kodanikud, 12.01.2010
Uudis+, 12.01.2010
Ukraina tupikus – jõulud jõulurahuta, Merle Maigre, 22.12.2009
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14.01.10
Autor: Kaarel Kaas
Tänavuse aasta esimene ajakirja Diplomaatia number ilmub trükist selle nädala reedel ning võtab vaatluse alla meie põhjapoolsed üleaedsed: juttu tuleb nii Soome ajaloost võrdluses Eestiga, soomlaste rääkimis- ja vaikimiskultuurist kui ka Soome riigikaitsest.
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15.10.09
Autor: Tomas Jermalavicius
October 15th is a Blog Action Day’09 on Climate Change, whereby thousands of bloggers from around the world – concerned individuals as well as NGOs and corporations – join to discuss this issue and underline its importance to their readers in the bloggospace (www.blogactionday.org). Security and defence community is notably absent from this action, but it does not mean it is not preoccupied with the matter: climate change and its security implications are a prominent subject in academic papers, policy reviews, foresight exercises and various gatherings.
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02.10.09
Author: Julian Tupay
Having sketched out the security challenges facing Germany and the upcoming decisions that have to be made by the new administration in Part I of this analysis, I will now set out to discuss how Germany’s policy stance will develop under the new leadership.
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30.09.09
Author: Julian Tupay
With parliamentary election past and a new coalition of the willing, composed of Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Guido Westerwelle’s Free Democratic Party (FDP), in the starting blocks to replace the little liked marriage of convenience between the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD), it is time to take a look at the portents this new leadership casts over the future of German foreign and security policy.
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26.08.09
Autor: Tomas Jermalavicius
Confronted with formidable challenges of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States military realised that their old ways of conducting warfare were irrelevant and that they had to relearn the forgotten tricks of “small wars” anew. In this quest, the U.S. military leadership became fascinated with a rather old managerial concept of learning organisation: the counterinsurgency manual of 2006 explicitly refers to the imperative for the U.S. military to turn itself into a smart learning organisation as a precondition for long-term success in current and future military campaigns.
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