Baltic security cooperation and its relevance for Central European security

Baltic security cooperation and its relevance for Central European security by Marcus Svedberg Download PDF EPUB FB2

Advancing U.S.-Nordic-Baltic Security Cooperation Adapting Partnership to a New Security Environment Edited by Daniel S. Hamilton, András Simonyi, and Debra Cagan October 9, Russian Actions Toward the Baltic Sea Region. Russia revealed its leadership intentions first in Georgia in and later in Ukraine in President Vladimir Putin has embarked on a strategy of imposing major changes on the European security architecture in order to enhance his sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space.

In anticipation of the NATO Chicago Summitbetween 10 - 11 May in Tallinn, Estonia, GMF and The International Centre for Defence Studies (ICDS) held an event titled: ‘Regional Security Cooperation in the Baltic: Risks, Challenges and Threats’.

The aim of the workshop was to strengthen cooperation and dialogue between the Central European, Nordic, and the Baltic. The United States fosters a robust and enduring security partnership with the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Sincewe convened the U.S.-Baltic Dialogue to broaden and deepen our range of security cooperation activities and address Baltic-wide security gaps.

Security assistance programs like Foreign Military Financing. In terms of security and defense cooperation, the biggest concern for many in the Baltic states is that the U.S.

might disengage from Europe due to the “pivot” to Asia and become disinterested. Security cooperation has long been a vital tool of U.S. foreign policy. The National Defense Strategy (NDS) elevates its importance.

“Strengthening alliances and attracting new partners” is one of the three pillars delineated in the NDS as a major line of effort against strategic competitors such as Russia and China.

As the United States evolves its. from the European and transatlantic security structures. Policies to deal with the situation have been adopted by actors both inside and outside the region. Russia has suggested the creation of 'a regional space of stability and security'.

Nordic and Nordic-Baltic cooperation in the last few years has flourished, but in a rather haphazard way. Poland’s recently adopted National Security Strategy (NSS) provides a new security policy framework for the most significant actor among the countries on NATO’s eastern flank.

There are, of course, divergent views among analysts on how far such documents deserve close attention or whether they merely amount to ‘political advertising and geopolitical signaling’. launched inthe United States has bolstered its military presence in Central and Eastern Europe.

As part of the associated Operation Atlantic Resolve, rotational U.S. forces have conducted various training activities and exercises in the Baltic states.

NATO has also helped to bolster the Baltic states’ security. From the Baltic states’ point of view, this should be a task that brings the whole of Europe together.

However, a recent interview by French president Emmanuel Macron with The Economist highlighted sharp disagreements over strategic goals in Europe. In many ways, the security of the Baltic states is better protected than ever before. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and fair employs around 3, people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its.

The European Commission organised a media seminar on the “security research”, with a view of a deeper understanding of the complex security issues. The theme is of vital importance at present tense time for both Europeans and the Baltics’ sub-region in line with EU’s priorities of making Europe a safe place and enhancing regional security.

(Stockholm 12 June ) More than policymakers, researchers and practitioners are gathering in Stockholm at Fotografiska on June 11–12 for the international conference addressing the complexity of societal security challenges in the Baltic Sea region.

Watch the livestream of the opening session here. Romanovs U., Andzans M. (), The Trilateral Military Cooperation of the Baltic States in the "New Normal" Security Landscape, in: Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Realities and Prospects The. The opinions articulated above represent the views of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the position of the European Leadership Network or any of its members.

The ELN’s aim is to encourage debates that will help develop Europe’s capacity to address the pressing foreign, defence, and security challenges of our time.

The Regionalisation of the European Security System The second rationale for studying NATO’s role in the Baltic Sea region is that with the end of cold war bipolarity, the European security system has increasingly fragmented along regional lines, often reflecting historical fault-lines and traditional patterns of cooperation and conflict.

Finnish security policy for the Baltic Sea region rests on several pillars. The first is connected to membership of the European Union. As a member of the EU, Finland could not stand aside when security was at stake in its vicinity or elsewhere in Europe, as was stated in the government’s security-policy report published in June.

It is of the utmost importance that the EU is prepared to counter these narratives – most likely geared towards domestic audiences – by the governments that engage in undermining the rule of law. The US should condition further progress of its security cooperation with Central Europeans on the maintenance of the rule of law.

NBC Security, Inc., a global defense applications firm, has announced its decision to commence operations in Lithuania under the name UAB “Baltic Defense Industries”.

The company has established a new office in Kaunas and plans to open a facility for the manufacturing of products for the global defense and law enforcement agencies.

In andwhen China’s multilateral platforms in the region, such as “Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe (16+1)” and Belt and Road Initiative, were first taking shape, China was primarily seen as an opportunity to diversify away from Russian transit, and parts of the business community believed that a good Sino-Russian.

Furthermore, the Poles have played a role in the rebirth of the Baltic or Hansa Group, with members from Scandinavia, Germany, the newly-independent Baltic countries, and re-emergent Russia.

See Phillip A. Petersen, “The Challenge to Soviet Strategic Deployment: An Emerging Vision of European Security,” in Jane’s NATO Handbook –  The United States’ Baltic and Adriatic Charters could become templates for embedding Ukraine and Georgia, as well as possibly Moldova and Azerbaijan, into a provisional multilateral security network.

Despite certain caveats, a US-GUAM Charter would be a small but symbolically significant step forward in making Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus .Sincesix new sub-regional cooperation groups have emerged as the states of northern, central and eastern Europe work towards forging relationships with one another and their neighbours to.