Viljar Veebel

Viljar Veebel (born January 7, 1977 in Estonia) is an Estonian political scientist, a political economist and a consultant.

Viljar Veebel is a researcher and consultant who has been researching in the University of Tartu, The Estonian School of Diplomacy and The Tallinn Technological University. He defended his Ph.D. in 2012 in University of Tartu, focusing on the European Union pre-accession policy and European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). Since 2013 he is working in Estonian National Defense Academy as Associate Professor of Social Sciences. He is currently also conducting his post-doctoral research in University of Coimbra focusing on use of positive conditionality model in reforming Eurozone financial institutions and rules. Viljar Veebel is also actively participating as a consultant in European Union related projects in Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine  and Balkan area in a development cooperation projects in cooperation with the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonian School of Diplomacy and Swedish International Development Agency. He is also participating in active media debate on European Union enlargement and relations of Baltic States with Russia and European Union.

Academic Publications

 * Eurotsooni majandus- ja finantskriisi lahendusmeetmed ja valikud mõjugruppide seisukohast, 2013
 * Europäische Verschuldung- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008-2012: Die Analyse der Krisenmassnahmen aus der Sicht von den Bteiligten. Discussions on Estonian Economic Policy, XXI(1), 187 - 205.
 * “Are European integration and federalization simultaneously achievable?" Riigikogu Toimetised, 27
 * Eurotsooni majandus- ja finantskriisi lahendusmeetmed ja valikud mõjugruppide seisukohast. Eesti majanduspoliitilised väitlused: Aktuaalsed Euroopa Liidu riikide probleemid, XXI(1), 247 - 253.
 * “The EU Enlargement Conditionality: Goals, Efficiency, Shortcomings and Trends" European Studies Institute, Alfapress, Tallinn, 2012
 * “The role and impact of positive conditionality in the EU pre-accession policy" Dissertationes Rerum Politicarum Universitatis Tartuensis n5, Tartu University Press, 2012
 * “Estonia: Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe after EU Membership" Autorid Viljar Veebel ja Ramon Loik. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
 * “Relevance of Copenhagen Criteria in Actual Accession: Principles, Methods and Shortcomings of EU Pre-Accession Evaluation”, Journal STSS, 2012/1
 * „The EU neighbourhood policy, positive conditionality and reforms in the former Soviet space“, chapter In book European Neighbourhood after August 2008. Edited by Vahur Made and Alexei Sekarev. Republic of Letters. Dordrecht, 2011
 * “European Union’s positive conditionality model in pre-accession process”, Trames, Estonian Academy of Sciences 2009,
 * “The Positive Conditionality of the EU: Methods, Dynamics, Principles” in RSR Yearbook, Tartu University Publishing 2008
 * „Conditionality and Dependence as Key Elements in Simultaneous Democratization and Crises Prevention, in “The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook” 2004, Varrak
 * “Is Europe integrated? Spill-over barriers and spill-over effects in practice”, 2003, EuroFaculty publication series, Tartu University Publishing
 * “Estonia's Involvement in EU Policy-making, in Preference Formation in the New EU Member States" edited by Zuzana Lisopová, 2010; Bratislava
 * “The EU New Member States as Agenda Settles in Enlarged European Union: Estonia”, Open Society Institute Sofia, 2009,
 * “Estonia. The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union. Country report“ EuPI – European Policies Initiative, Open Society Institute – Sofia, 2009.
 * “Not Your Grandfather’s Eastern Block. The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union.”, edited by Marin Lessinski, EuPI – European Policies Initiative, Open Society Institute – Sofia, 2009.
 * “Estonian civil servants attitudes towards EU members states’ interests and basics of coalition-forming”, Riigikogu Toimetised (Estonian National Parliament Publications), Hurt, Veebel, Malev, RiTO 20, 2009
 * “Focuses and Challenges of European Union Studies”, University of Tartu EuroCollege publications, vol 7, editor, University of Tartu 2008
 * “Overcoming Doubts: The Baltic States and European Security and Defence Policy” in “The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook” 2007, Varrak, Andres Kasekamp and Viljar Veebel
 * “The Baltic States and ESDP”, Andres Kasekamp and Viljar Veebel in “The North and ESDP” Bertelsmann Stiftung 2007, ed Klaus Brummer
 * “Navigating Between Policy and Populace: Estonia, its Accession Referendum and the EU Convention,” Politique Europeenne elargie, numero 15 2005, Vello Pettai and Viljar Veebel, 2005, L´ Harmattan
 * "Teaching in Open University”, editor Tiia Ristolainen, Tartu University Publishing 2004
 * "Positions of 10 Central and Eastern European Countries on EU Institutional Reforms: Analytical Survey in the framework of the CEEC-DEBATE project", Université catholique de Louvain, Editors: Christian Franck and Dorota Pyszna-Nigge, Louvain-la-Neuve/Brussels, June 2003, Veebel Viljar Ehin, Piret
 * CEEC-Debate – Positions of the candidate countries in the European Convention, UCL 2003. Veebel Viljar, Ehin, Piret;
 * “Spillover Barrier in The Process of European Integration”, EuroFaculty publication series, Tartu University Publishing, 2003
 * “Estonian choices influencing the Debate on the Future of Europe”, in “The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook” 2003, Varrak
 * “Transformation of Economic and Political Systems in Central and Eastern Europe”, Tartu University Publishing, 2002, University of Tartu, EuroCollege publication series, workbook nr 6
 * “Prospects of European Political Integration and its influence on Estonia”, Tartu University publishing, 2001
 * Eesti Entsüklopeedia 15. köide "Maailma Maad" (Benin, Burundi, Roheneemesaared, Madagaskar) ISBN 978-9985-70-255-0