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Russia as key to the Baltic Sea region
21/09/2009
Author : Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS - Denmark)
By Hans Mouritzen
 
The opportunities for the Baltic Sea region are essentially determined by factors of high politics, and these mainly have to do with Russia, directly or indirectly.

Tightly connected to these are alleged geopolitical ‘lessons of the past’, which – likewise – pertain to Russia.

Russian action at other arenas like the Caucasus inadvertently affects the Baltic Sea region. Even more, Russia is actually the key to developments in this region – not in detail, of course, but in rough outline.

Combined with controversial Russian internal developments and security policy, this implies that prospects for the Baltic Sea region are less than bright. Simultaneously, however, classic Norden is forcefully re-emerging.

This brief is a revised version of a speech held in Hamina (Finland) 28 August 2009, at the conference on ’The future of the Baltic Sea region’ (arranged by the Prime Minister’s Office and Centrum Balticum in celebration of the 1809 peace treaty of Hamina/Fredrikshamn).

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