The Baltic States: Picking Regions, Shedding Myths, Decoding Acronyms
The Baltic States: Picking Regions, Shedding Myths, Decoding Acronyms

Summary/Abstract: Although the Baltic authorities saw membership in the EU and NATO as the only possible long-term solution to all their security concerns, they also pursued an active regional cooperation agenda as an “interim” remedy. The “interim” solution consisted of two essential components: 1) close trilateral cooperation among Baltic states; 2) embedding the Baltic states into the wide network of regional organisations and cooperation frameworks. The Baltic governments saw this cooperation primarily as a tool to achieve their ultimate goals. For their partners, it was a means to keep the Baltics happy without extending clear EU or NATO membership guarantees.

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