Josh Rogin, The Cable. Foreign Policy Estonia sits at the intersection of Europe and Russia while also providing a connection back across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States. Led by Toomas Hendrik Ilves, often called the "Dean of the Balts," the country is fiercely transatlanticist and hugely skeptical of Russian actions and intentions.
As the country most severely attacked by Russian cyber hackers, who brought the country's internet to a halt in 2007, and one of the newest members of both NATO and the European Union, Estonia is poised to play a role in the evolving security architecture on the continent. Ilves, whose family lived in exile during the Soviet occupation and who grew up largely in New Jersey, is calling for more direct cooperation across the Atlantic on meeting emerging threats.
Visiting Washington in late March, he sat down for an exclusive interview with The Cable.
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