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Book "The Russia's European Agenda and the Baltic States” published in Great Britain

Danuta Pavilnenene, BC, Vilnius, 06.01.2010.Print version
At the end of the year 2009, the book, entitled Russia's European Agenda and the Baltic States by Janina Sleivyte, Senior Advisor to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence, was published in Great Britain. "Russian Foreign policy has become an increasing concern in the 21st century, together with Russia's relations with its former Soviet neighbours – but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia's increasingly fractious relations with those institutions.

The book discusses the development of Russia's approach to the new security architecture in Europe and assesses the prospects for a more active engagement of Russia in the Baltic Sea region and Europe as a whole. The book considers the full range of issues affecting security, including energy, economic relations; the special position of Russia's Kaliningrad enclave; and Russia's special interest in the Russian minorities in the former Soviet Baltic States. The evolution of Russian-Baltic relations from 1990-2008 is set in the more general context of Russia's European agenda, looking into the role and place of the Baltic Sates in this agenda," reads the introductory part of the publication.

 

Sleivyte is currently a Senior Advisor to the Lithuanian MOD. She was formerly a member of the MOD Defence Policy and Planning Division of the NATO International Staff. She is a Doctor of Philosophy of Cranfield University (Great Britain) and a Doctor of Natural Sciences of Vilnius University (Lithuania), reports ELTA/LETA.

 

The book was published by Routledge, a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the humanities and social sciences.






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