Andres Kasekamp
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Andres Ilmar Kasekamp is the director of Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (since 2000) and Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu
University of Tartu
The University of Tartu is a classical university in the city of Tartu, Estonia. University of Tartu is the national university of Estonia; it is the biggest and highest-ranked university in Estonia...

, Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

 (since 2004).

Andres Kasekamp served as Chairman of the Board of Open Estonia Foundation from 2004-2008. His main research interests are the extreme right movements and contemporary Baltic history.

He graduated from the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
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. In 1996 he earned a PhD in history from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
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 at the University of London
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. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and Humboldt University, Berlin
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. In 2002-2005 he was editor of the Journal of Baltic Studies
Journal of Baltic Studies
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.

His book The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia is the first comprehensive book on the Estonian politics of 1930s. It mainly focuses on the history of the Estonian War of Independence Veterans' League.

In 2010, he published A History of the Baltic States for Palgrave Macmillan
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Publications

  • The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia (2000) ISBN 978-0-312-22598-8
  • With Sæter, M. (2003). Estonian Membership in the EU: Security and Foreign Policy Aspects. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
  • Kasekamp, A. (2004). Political Change in Estonia during the 1990s. Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi; Lahtinen, Anu (eds.) History and Change. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
  • Kasekamp, A. (2006). Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania. In Blamires, Cyprian (ed.). World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO
  • A History of the Baltic States. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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