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The Changing Security Configuration and Balance of Power in the Baltic Region: Implications for Russia

... 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 by engaging with Russia in the Baltic region; the changes in the region’s security configuration and their implications for Russia; the position of the Baltic states on the Ukraine crisis ...

05.10.2023

The Nordic Сountries: More Militarism and Confrontation Where Creativity, Security and Peace Were Eminently Possible

... leaders to Mikhail Gorbachev about not expanding NATO one inch eastwards if he accepted a re-unified Germany in NATO. The NATO-Russia deadlock that has led to the conflict in Ukraine served only a pretext to what has been going on the last roughly three ... ... tensions in the region (and the Arctic) and, as I predicted right after Russia’s military operation in Ukraine , Finland’s and Sweden’s panicking, rushed and fatal decision to join NATO. Why Sweden and Finland are joining NATO Andrey Kortunov: NATO’s ...

22.05.2023

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