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Andres Ilmar Kasekamp (born 7 December 1966 in
Toronto) is the director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (
:et) (since 2000) and Professor of Baltic Politics at the
University of Tartu,
Estonia (since 2004).
Andres Kasekamp served as chairman of the Board of the
Open Estonia Foundation from 2004 to 2008. His main research interests are extreme-right movements and contemporary Baltic history.
He graduated from the
University of Toronto. In 1996 he earned a PhD in history from the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies in
London, which today forms part of
University College London
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. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and
Humboldt University
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Berlin
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. In 2002-2005 he was the editor of the ''
Journal of Baltic Studies
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''.
[Kasekamp's profile](_blank)
at the Aleksanteri Institute
His book ''The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia'' is the first comprehensive book on the Estonian politics of the 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)
* 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.
References
External links
Biography of Andres Kasekamp at Estonian Foreign Policy InstituteKasekamp's CV at Estonian Science Portal ETIS
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21st-century Estonian historians
Canadian people of Estonian descent
Living people
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
1966 births
Historians of Estonia
Writers from Toronto