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Baltic Security Strategy Report: What the Baltics Can Offer for a Stronger Alliance

Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns, editors
Baltic Security Strategy Report: What the Baltics Can Offer for a Stronger Alliance
ISBN: 978-0-9986660-5-1
$24.95
2019/206 pages
Distributed for The Jamestown Foundation

DESCRIPTION

This in-depth security review of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania assesses current challenges pertaining to defense and deterrence, societal security and resilience, economic security, and cybersecurity. The authors also explore potential avenues for subregional cooperation, offering detailed recommendations on how best to proceed with a more coherent, goal-oriented, and efficient cooperation strategy that would buttress not only the security of each of the Baltic States, but also the transatlantic community more broadly.

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.
  • Looking Strategically at Baltic Security Cooperation—the Editors.
  • DEFENSE AND DETERRENCE.
  • Expert Assessment—O. Nikers et al.
  • Defense and Deterrence In-Depth Analysis—G. Grant et al.
  • Interoperability as a Matter of Survival—V. Malinionis.
  • Legal Aspects of Defense Cooperation—I. Miļūna and E. Poga.
  • Expert Recommendations. 
  • SOCIETAL SECURITY AND RESILIENCE.
  • Expert Assessment—O. Nikers et al.
  • Taking a Hybrid Governance Approach Against Hybrid Warfare: Lessons From National Cybersecurity Incident Response Teams—Ė.K. Selga.
  • Defeating Disinformation Threats—D. Bankauskaitė and V. Keršankas.
  • Disaster Risk Reduction and Urban Resilience—E. Āķītis.
  • Expert Recommendations.
  • ECONOMIC SECURITY.
  • Expert Assessment—O. Nikers et al.
  • Energy Security—T. Jakštas.
  • Financial Security—D. Kļaviņš.
  • Transportation and Infrastructure Security—A. Jaeski.
  • Expert Recommendations.
  • CYBERSECURITY.
  • Expert Assessment—O. Nikers et al.
  • Addressing Cooperation Challenges—E. Poga.
  • Expert Recommendations.