Andres Ilmar Kasekamp (born 7 December 1966 in Toronto, Canada) 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.Biographies of the Open Estonia Foundation Andres Kasekamp curriculum vitae
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. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto and Humboldt University, Berlin. In 2002-2005, he was the editor of the Journal of Baltic Studies.Kasekamp's profile at the Aleksanteri Institute
His book The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia is the first comprehensive albeit amateurish book on the Estonian politics of the 1930s.The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia book summary by the publisher It mainly focuses on the history of the Estonian War of Independence Veterans' League.The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia book review by Andrew Ezergailis
In 2010, he published A History of the Baltic States for Palgrave Macmillan.
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 Institute Kasekamp's CV at Estonian Science Portal ETIS