- Toms Rostoks
When the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs returned late in 2007 to its newly renovated premises, which had been home to Latvia’s foreign service in the interwar period, one could hardly imagine that in three years Latvia’s...
- Pauls Raudseps
Since the beginning of the economic crisis in Latvia, foreigners have been amazed by the stoicism with which the Latvian population has taken the sharp cuts in government spending and the huge rise in unemployment.
- Indré Makaraityté
“Politicians and History”, Raimundas Lopata’s latest book on political leadership in Lithuania, gives the reader a rare opportunity to compare what two of the most influential Lithuanian politicians think about their country....
- Jeroen Bult
It must have come as a most unpleasant surprise to Estonia’s decision-makers. On November 5, 2009, both Sweden and Finland announced that they would grant permission to Nord Stream, a Russian-German-Dutch company, to construct a...
April's issue of Diplomaatia concerns Latvia and Lithuania. In the opening article, Latvian political scientist Toms Rostoks, discusses the influence of the economic downturn on Latvia's foreign policy. "Foreign policy has been...
- Mindaugas Jurkynas
Transatlantic integration has become one of the geopolitical hallmarks in the eastern part of northern Europe. The twin enlargement of the EU and NATO in 2004 opened new opportunities for Lithuanian foreign policy making which...
- Žygimantas VaiāiÅ«nas
Concerns about energy security are certainly at the top of the political agenda. These issues are even more sensitive in the Baltic states. The main energy security challenge for Lithuania, as well as for Latvia and Estonia, is...
- Aarne Ermus
The defence reforms in Latvia and Lithuania must be monitored carefully. There is no point in condemning or condoning them too rashly.
- JÅ«ratÄ— NovagrockienÄ—
The gradual reduction of the mass army and the need to change to a professional army, encouraged by radical changes in the international security environment and Lithuania’s membership of NATO, have become a considerable...
- Edward Lucas
He was a figure from another age. Weekend guests at Lech Kaczyński’s presidential retreat on Poland’s Baltic coast usually found the conversation turning to Gdansk opposition politics of the 1970s.
