[PDF] Hard Security Dynamics In The Baltic Sea Region eBook

Author : Matti Pesu
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Baltic Sea Region
ISBN : 9789517696289

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After a period of turbulence in 2014–2015 followed by Russia’s actions in Ukraine, tense stability has emerged in the Baltic Sea area. The current regional security landscape is shaped by three interconnected security dynamics: Russian assertive behaviour, NATO’s reassurance and deterrence measures, and Finland’s and Sweden’s closer integration into the Western deterrence network. The interplay between the dynamics will determine the nature of the regional security environment in the 2020s. Russia’s provocative measures in the region or elsewhere will likely strengthen the foothold of Western security structures in the Baltic Sea area. Moreover, NATO, Finland, and Sweden should continue to find ways to enhance stability without unnecessarily feeding Russian provocativeness. The sources of regional tensions lie elsewhere, and the Baltic Sea region will remain a contested area as long as the West and Russia are at loggerheads.

Author : Olav F. Knudsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351149504

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What is power and how is it effective? This volume responds to these questions in terms of regional international relations with a particular focus on the Baltic Sea region, an area still charged with a residue of Cold War conflict and power disparity, in a setting of new cooperative ventures. Each contributor examines the region from a different angle and discusses how its actors coped with the new situation facing them after 1991. The volume looks at how governments have defined their new circumstances, how they have dealt with the opportunity to shift to a new mode of coexistence and collaboration, and how they have tackled the challenge of peacefully converting their region to a security community. The book breaks with tradition by adopting a new, thematic approach based on regional issues and functions rather than a country-by-country discourse. It will be of critical value to readers interested in security studies and European politics.

Author : Olav Fagelund Knudsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 113523289X

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The book examines the security puzzles posed by the remaining legacies of dominance and conflict in the Baltic Sea region as governments seek to integrate the three Baltic sates in a more stable system of cooperative security.

Author : Graeme P. Herd
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415297325

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This book focuses on four former Soviet sub-regions - the Baltic Sea region, the Slavic republics, the Black Sea region, and Central Asia - to explore the degree to which "democratic security" has been established.

Author : Mary N. Hampton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 144224853X

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International experts assess the components of the Baltic security puzzle by placing the security and political interests of the states of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania within the historical, economic, and political narratives of the greater Baltic region. They first reevaluate Baltic history as a progression of conflict, partial integration, Cold War division, up to today’s efforts to build a security community. Next, they focus on economic and social relations by contrasting patterns of democratization, domestic politics, EU membership, and the economics of crime. Lastly, they analyze military security and evolving regional perceptions of threats as well as the dynamics of alliance behavior and the recent geostrategic clashes unearthed by Russia’s behavior in Ukraine.

Author : Ann-Sofie Dahl
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1626165718

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Ann-Sofie Dahl brings together an international group of experts to examine Baltic security issues on a state-by-state basis and to contemplate what is needed to deter Russia in the region. They analyze ways to strengthen regional cooperation and to ensure that Baltic security stays a top priority despite competing strategic perspectives.

Author : Andrey Makarychev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1352000148

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This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in Europe to a potential area of military confrontation between Russia and NATO. The authors closely examine the following issues: new security challenges for the region stemming from Russia’s staunch anti-EU and anti-NATO polices, institutions and practices of multi-level governance in the region, and different cultural strategies that regional actors employ. The common threads of this innovative volume are issues of changing borders and boundaries in the region, and logics of inclusion and exclusion that shape its political contours. From diverse disciplinary and methodological positions the authors explain policies of specific Baltic Sea states, as well as structural matters that make them a region.

Author : Ben Hodges
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Baltic Sea
ISBN :

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The Baltic Sea region is part of a wider landscape, ranging from the Arctic to the Black Sea, in which the United States and its allies are in an existential struggle against determined adversaries — a destructive Russian Federation and a rising China. Although it is hard to identify a period in recent history when national efforts and security ties were stronger in the Baltic Sea region, the West’s response to this reality has been fragmented and incomplete and remains inadequate given Russia’s military advantage in the region. At stake is not only the security of the countries concerned but also Europe’s peace and stability, and NATO’s credibility. This study aims to forge a focused, forward-looking transatlantic security agenda for the Baltic Sea region. This document offers an audit and assessment of security challenges, highlighting gaps in the alliance’s defense and deterrence in the Baltic Sea region.