Lustration, Finnish Security & The Pitfalls of Foreign Policy Analysis
byBy Pekka Virkki and Jukka Mallinen The public debate on foreign and security policy in Finland has often been characterized as vague, cautious, repetitive,…
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Baltic Security: An Interivew with Latvian General Raimonds Graube (ret)
byRetired Latvian Chief of Defence, Lieutenant General Raimons Graube talks about the current Baltic Sea security environment and the importance of NATO and Canada’s…
Americans in The Baltics: Two Centuries of Diplomacy, Intrigue and Friendship Part II
byThe second part of a two part series looking at the history of US-Baltic diplomatic relations over two centuries. The first part is available…
Americans in The Baltics: Two Centuries of Diplomacy, Intrigue and Friendship Part I
byThe first part of a two part series looking at the history of US-Baltic diplomatic relations over two centuries. Part two is available here….
The Task of Securing Freedom in The Baltics Is Not Over: Ambassador Daniel Fried
byKeynote remarks given by Ambassador Dan Fried at the May 2017 JBANC conference in Washington DC. I first met with JBANC in 1993, introduced…
Estonian Center Party Minister: “I am not in favor of NATO membership”
byUPDATE 1:45 EST: Postimees reports that Mihhail Korb has resigned his cabinet post. Korb apologized for his comments outside the Prime Minister’s office at…
Lithuania Grants Asylum to Two Russians Fleeing LGBT Persecution
byLithuanian authorities have granted asylum to two gay Russian men fleeing persecution in Chechnya, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. The violent and systematic…
Joint Baltic American National Committee 2017 Conference Live Stream From Washington D.C.
byWatch UpNorth/The Northern European’s Live Streams of the Joint Baltic American National Committee 2017 Conference:New Realities: The Baltic Region in a Changing World here….
Rejecting The Kremlin’s Falsification of History & Cult of Victory
byThis week, veterans groups and individuals gathered in cities around the world to participate in ceremonies marking the Allied liberation of Europe from Nazi…