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Read more at: Talking Baltics: Interview with Ross Allen
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Talking Baltics: Interview with Ross Allen

Brendan Simms, Director of the Centre for Geopolitics, spoke with Mr Ross Allen, the new British Ambassador to Estonia 1. How far did Estonia react to the Belarussian crisis? Estonia has reacted strongly to the crisis, supporting significant sanctions on the Lukashenko regime. The fact that sanctions are coordinated...

Read more at: Britain and the Eastern Baltic region: the past, the present and the future
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Britain and the Eastern Baltic region: the past, the present and the future

21 September 2021 By Donatas Kupciunas, Baltic Research Associate In 1919, the somewhat miraculous appearance on the map of Europe of the three eastern Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania drew much interest from London. From the outset, Britain played a significant role in this Baltic state building. Together...

Read more at: 9/11 becomes history
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9/11 becomes history

17 September 2021 By Suzanne Raine , Affiliated Lecturer The unhappy coincidence of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 and the humiliating withdrawal of the US and its NATO allies from Afghanistan is of course not a coincidence: the date was chosen by President Biden and intended to be symbolic. The symbolism hasn’t worked...

Read more at: From Sea to Space – Chinese “astropolitical” ambitions in the 21st Century
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From Sea to Space – Chinese “astropolitical” ambitions in the 21st Century

17 September 2021 Dr Kun-Chin Lin , Deputy Director, Centre for Geopolitics The head of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, Ye Peijian , remarked in 2019 that: “… the universe is an ocean, the moon is the Diaoyu Islands, Mars is Huangyan Island. If we don’t go there now even though we’re capable of doing so, then we...

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