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Sven Sakkov

Sven Sakkov

Director of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

Before joining ICDS Sven Sakkov served for two years as the director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOOE), an international knowledge hub specialising in research, training and exercises in the areas of technology, strategy, operations and law. From 2008-15 Sakkov served as undersecretary for defence policy (policy director) of the Ministry of Defence of Estonia. He was responsible for policy planning, threat assessments, NATO and EU policy, international cooperation and arms control. He was also Estonia’s representative to the NATO’s Senior Offi cials’ Group and High-Level Group. Previously he had served at the Estonian Embassy in Washington and Estonian Mission to NATO, as national security and defence advisor to the President of Estonia and as the director of Policy Planning of MOD. He is a member of NATO CCDCOE Advisory Board.
Subjects:
Baltic states, China, Defence, Defence capabilities, Europe, History, Multilateralism, Nordic countries, Nordic-Baltic region, Russia, Security, soft power, United States
Updated: May 15, 2019

Agenda

Welcome and Introduction to the Rein Pakk-Rainer Sarnet Exhibition of Caricatures of Lennart Meri
LMC 2019
Baltic states, Defence capabilities
Sea-Blind and Air-Blind?: Does Baltic Defence Need Re-calibration?
LMC 2018
Welcome note
LMC 2018
Defence capabilities, Nordic countries, Nordic-Baltic region, Security, soft power
NORDEFCO: Soft Power in Action
LMC 2014

Side events

Defence, Nordic-Baltic region, Security
Nordic-Baltic Security Architecture

The significance of the Baltic Sea Region to European security has increased. The military-strategic situation in the region has deteriorated and the region has become less secure. The complexity and scale of the challenges at hand means that no European state can face them alone.…

LMC 2019

Articles

Ukrainian protesters hold a banner reading "no blockade of the Azov Sea!" During a rally in Mariupol, south coast of Azov sea, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. The Cold War may have restarted from the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea in 2014.
China, Europe, History, Multilateralism, Russia, United States
Winter is Coming

Without Hegemon’s support the values-based international order will collapse.

Sven Sakkov
LMC 2019

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