Empires, The World Order And Small States
Empires, The World Order And Small States

Summary/Abstract: “We must create a self-dependent empire and substantially expand our pivot. Former territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania constitute our natural borders and crossing them would present no challenge <…>. Europe and, I think, the United States too need our empire – both powers will soon realise it. After all, all their actions indicate they have already realised it, although not to the extent to which we are prepared to go. What good is having our own empire for us? We need it in case the U.S. and Russia collapse. Europe will then remain the power field and we must be one of those powers controlling Europe.” These are a few excerpts from Gintaras Beresnevičius’ book “Forging an Empire. Sketches of Lithuanian ideology”, which received somewhat ironic but generally positive appraisals a few years ago.1 The critics were apparently captivated not so much by the idea of the Lithuanian empire as such but by the idea as an intellectual provocation. However,

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