Working Paper No.76 / 2023
Working Paper No.76 / 2023
The following working paper examines the current state of security in the Baltic region. It has become clear that there is no going back to the pre-Ukraine crisis balance of power structure. NATO’s expansion into Sweden and Finland can radically transform the political and security landscape in the Baltic region and destroy the established forms of cooperation these states have with Russia. This paper covers: risks and opportunities states face...
Russia was represented by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Boris Kuznetsov, Director at the Centre of International and Regional Policy (Saint Petersburg).
On February 26, 2018,
Danish Institute for International Studies
(DIIS) hosted a roundtable discussion «Security Policy in the Baltic Region: Current State of Affairs and Future Opportunities».
The roundtable was attended by Danish and foreign experts on traditional and new dimensions of security in the region, including the balance...
... causes emanating from the Cold War outcomes. At that, their activities would be legitimate only if their parties manage to evade losses, save face and bring results to both sides, a most complicated and non-trivial task.
First published in "
The Baltic Sea Region: Hard and Soft Security Reconsidered
" (LIIA)
... the two aforementioned countries.
The most urgent goal at the moment is to mitigate the risks of military confrontation in the region to avoid various possible accidents and errors potentially fraught with unpredictable consequences. As part of the Baltic Sea Region, Russia has prior experience of constructive cooperation with NATO in the form of providing the Baltic Transit Train in support of non-military deliveries and reverse transit for the International Security Assistance Force with the use of the transportation and logistics infrastructure owned by Russia and the Baltic States, as well as in the form of mutual overflights on the basis of the Treaty on Open Skies, even during the Ukrainian ...
