Geopoliticus March 28, 2018 Collective Defense or Unilateral Action: Poland’s Strategic Dilemma in the Baltics In 1999, Poland joined the NATO Alliance. Ever since, collective defense has been at the heart of Poland’s national... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 2, 2017 Sweden’s Foreign Policy: Nonaligned, But Not Entirely Neutral In late 2014, Swedish authorities spotted what many suspected was a Russian submarine lurking off Stockholm. The incident set... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 28, 2017 Sweden’s Importance to NATO’s Defense of the Baltics Sweden is not a member of NATO. But Sweden is very important to the defense of NATO’s Baltic member... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 15, 2017 Russia’s Existential Threat to NATO in the Baltics NATO seems more united today than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War.... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 7, 2017 NATO’s Baltic Defense Challenge As NATO expanded eastwards after the Cold War, the geography that the Alliance needed to defend changed significantly (See... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 29, 2016 “The Rail Baltica” Project: True European Interconnectedness? Russia possesses a tremendous amount of control over the Baltic states’ rail infrastructure—including the ability to cut off all... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 4, 2016 Baltic Nations and the Continuing EU Refugee Crisis More than a million migrants and refugees escaped to Europe in 2015, creating divisions between the European Union member... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 19, 2015 Bundeswehr 2.0: A German Military for a New Normal A visit to Germany’s military history museum in Dresden reveals just how deeply ambivalent modern Germany is about its... Read more »