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Kadri Liik

Kadri Liik

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Kadri Liik is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Her research focuses on Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region. Before joining ECFR in October 2012, Liik was the director of the International Centre for Defence Studies in Estonia (2006-11), where she also worked as a senior researcher and director of the Centre’s Lennart Meri Conference. Throughout the 1990s, Ms Liik worked as a Moscow correspondent for several Estonian daily papers, including Postimees, Eesti Päevaleht, and the Baltic News Service. In 2002, she was promoted to the foreign news editor at Postimees. In 2004, Ms Liik became an editor-in-chief at the monthly foreign affairs magazine, Diplomaatia. She was also the host of “Välismääraja”, a current affairs talkshow at Raadio Kuku in Tallinn. Ms an MA in international relations specialising in diplomacy from Lancaster University.
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Belarus, Conservatism, Defence, Democracy, Economy, Europe, European Union, Future, Germany, History, Identity, Liberalism, Russia, Ukraine, United States, West
Updated: April 25, 2022

Agenda

The EU’s Russia Policy: All Quiet on the Western Front?
LMC 2023
Authoritarianism, Economy, Future, Russia
Recent Poll of Levada Centre: Dance of Little Swans Back on State TV?
LMC 2022
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Russia
Russian Civil Society and Media. Inter Malleum et Incudem – Between a Rock and a Hard Place
LMC 2021
Russia
One’s Own Place in the World? Russia’s Rising Generation
LMC 2019
Russia, West
Russia and the West: Crossroads or Dead End?
LMC 2018
Belarus
What Colour Revolution in Belarus?
LMC 2017
4 more

Side events

European Union, Russia
Post-Crimea Shift in EU-Russia Relations: From Fostering Interdependence to Managing Vulnerabilities

The book explores mutual dependencies between the EU and Russia in a number of fields, including energy, trade, financial sector, defence industry, cross-border cooperation, and perhaps most importantly, security, and analyzes the perceptions, vulnerabilities, and ways to manage the ties on both sides.

LMC 2019

Articles

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 28, 2017.
Conservatism, Democracy, Identity, Liberalism, Russia, United States, West
The Nature of Our Russia-Challenge and How to Address It

If the West manages to rejuvenate its own democracy, then it can have another conversation with Russia about world order – and have it Western terms.

Kadri Liik
LMC 2017

Talks

Kadri Liik and Thomas Bagger
Europe, Germany, History, Russia
Time for International Sobriety

The world of yesterday is gone or rapidly eroding, and it makes it hard to establish foreign policy directions. In the great power competition, Europe seems to be confused because Russia today is not the Russia that the West imagined it to become after 1989.…

Thomas Bagger ,  Kadri Liik
January 25, 2021

In the news

Kadri Liik. Me peame rääkima Saksamaast

Edasi.org, June 7, 2022

Kadri Liik: loosungitega probleemide tapetseerimine on mõttetu ja ka igav

ERR (Estonian Public Broadcasting), September 10, 2021