Kaarel Piirimäe

PhD University of Cambridge (2009); author: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Baltic Question: Allied Relations during the Second World War (Palgrave 2014)

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

Kennan is an example about the importance of emotions in international affairs. I would be curious to know what drives the many other "realists" who argue for some kind of a deal with Russia. I suppose in a lot of cases there is no realism but simply sympathy for Russia.

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

Time and again we hear that NATO enlargement was a mistake. That we should have listened to realists like George F. Kennan. I researched Kennan's views and found very little that one could consider as foreign-policy realism. https://t.co/RqxrBD03Cz

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

Kennan knew very little, and cared even less, about East-Central Europe, which was supposed to suffer by his "geopolitics of sympathy" prioritizing relations with Russia.

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

Estonia “has not time”: Existential Politics at the End of Empire - https://t.co/Rm7mrlRCYG

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

"Fifty years of hard times have brought us to the situation where we must admit: time is working against us. The destructive processes are intensifying and turning those processes around will take immense efforts."

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

65 years ago the Lockheed U-2 made its first flight. In 1956 it flew over the USSR for the 1st time. Intelligence historian Ivo Juurvee has pointed out during that first flight, it crossed over the occupied Baltic states also. #USBaltic100 https://t.co/vCXFo4GlPo

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

It is the 80th anniversary of the Welles Declaration. US, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania have issued joint statements. For history, see e.g. https://t.co/7XA9y5ibye

[sven sakkov @sakkov]

US Secretary of State and Baltic MoFAs issued a joint decleration on the 80th anniversary of Welles Declaration. Good stuff. Click here for the text: https://t.co/sFWL8Eu55J

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

28. mail kell 11.00-13.00 peab välisministeeriumi poliitika planeerimise osakonna peadirektor Eerik Marmei loengu „Eesti ja USA suhted pärast taasiseseisvumist“. Loeng on jälgitav:
https://t.co/OajTNBLlku

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

Kirjutasin sellest, kuidas Nõukogude propaganda pärast Teise maailmasõja lõppu kriisi sattus, ja mida sellest õppida.
https://t.co/5sovyYGv9t

[Kaarel Piirimäe @KaarelPiirimae]

Kuidas Euroopa Liit sündis ja kasvas kriisides, vt ja kuula:
https://t.co/9Lgtl1VmgH