Andres Ilmar Kasekamp (born 7 December 1966 in

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) is the director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute ( :et) (since 2000) and Professor of Baltic Politics at the

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(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

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. In 1996 he earned a PhD in history from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in

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, which today forms part of

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. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and

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. In 2002-2005 he was the editor of the ''

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''.Kasekamp's profile
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 The Vaps Movement ( et, Eesti Vabadussõjalaste Keskliit, later ''Eesti Vabadussõjalaste Liit'', ''vabadussõjalased'', or colloquially ''vapsid'', a single member of this movement was called ''vaps'') was an Estonian political organization. Fou ...

. In 2010, he published ''A History of the Baltic States'' for

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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kasekamp, Andres 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