Baltic Sea Security: Regional and Sectoral Perspectives
Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns, editors | | ISBN: 978-1-7352752-0-8 $24.95 |
| 2021/121 pages Distributed for The Jamestown Foundation |
DESCRIPTION
Baltic Sea Security offers a multifaceted discussion of the complex security issues affecting the Baltic region—with important implications for the cohesion of the wider transatlantic alliance.
Regional and international experts provide in-depth analysis of the current levels of defense and security cooperation among the Western countries in the Baltic basin, focusing on military cooperation in maritime and air defense, societal resilience in resisting information warfare and other hybrid threats, and the need for a joint approach to dealing with economic, financial, and critical infrastructure threats.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Olevs Nikers is president of the Baltic Security Foundation and senior analyst with The Jamestown Foundation. Otto Tabuns, founding director of the Baltic Security Foundation, is lecturer in international security and policy debate at the Riga Graduate School of Law.
CONTENTS
- Introduction—the Editors.
- REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES.
- Institutional Frameworks—J. Elfving.
- NATO and Baltic Security—Z. Śliwa.
- Germany's Emergence as a Baltic Sea Security Provider—A.M. Friede and G.S. Schaal.
- The Swedish Variable in the Regional Security Equation—E. Johansson.
- Looking at Baltic Security From Beyond the BSR and NATO—B. Flynn.
- SECTORAL PERSPECTIVES.
- Overcoming Different Threat Perceptions—A.M. Friede.
- Tools for Enhanced Energy Security—S. Kavaliūnaite.
- Holistic Societal Resilience—V. Rusinaitė.
- Cross-Regional Information Security—A. Kuczyńska-Zonik.
- The Maritime Responsibilities of Involved Stakeholders—W. Combes.
- From Political to Military Deterrence—G. Grant.
- CONCLUSIONS—the Editors.
