Profile

Joonas Veerme is a PhD candidate in International History at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre on Conflict Development and Peacebuilding, where he works on the project Narrative Belonging: Memory Politics and NATO Enlargement in Europe. He holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the University of Tartu and has previously worked in a research project focusing on the history of Estonia’s diplomacy, foreign and security policy in the 1990s.

Spoken Languages: Estonian, English, German

Thematic Expertise

• Post-Cold War transformations in Eastern Europe
• NATO enlargement in Eastern Europe
• Cold War international politics

• Baltic émigré political activism during the Cold War

   

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE

• Baltic States
• Eastern Europe
• Northern Europe

Thesis: The Impact of Historical Narratives on the Conduct of Estonia’s Foreign Policy After Regaining Independence

Advisor: Jussi Hanhimäki