Military Transit Of The Russian Federation Through The Territory Of The Republic Of Lithuania
Military Transit Of The Russian Federation Through The Territory Of The Republic Of Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: It is maintained that the military transit poses a threat to Lithuania’s security and may create an obstacle for Lithuania in its endeavour to join NATO. Supporters of such attitude believe that with Lithuania becoming a NATO member, the military transit would also turn into the Alliance’s problem in its relations with Russia. Thus, this gives rise to a seemingly logic questions why would the Alliance need one more problem in its relations with Russia? In the summer of 1996, the famous analysts of the RAND Corporation Ronald D. Asmus and Robert C. Nurick, explaining the guarded position assumed by NATO member states in regard of the Baltic states’ membership [...]

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