Baltic Cooperation - Embodying Trust
Baltic Cooperation - Embodying Trust

Summary/Abstract: Cooperation among the Baltic States is often described with vivid epithets about unity, historical heritage, competitiveness, and mutual loyalty. These descriptions are true because cooperation among Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is a stellar example of a multitude of intertwined elements: cooperation, competitiveness, jealousy, struggle for leadership, and so on. Throughout its existence, the dynamics of Baltic cooperation can be described as fluctuating and heterogeneous; this was a consequence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania developing domestic and foreign policy and needs, participating in international politics and perceiving external threats, pursuing national interests and goals. This was also a consequence of perceiving the three Baltic States as a unified region. Moreover, these distinct features of Baltic cooperation are characteristic of various time periods and various spheres.

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