Geopoliticus April 5, 2018 Collective Security without an Alliance: Finland’s Defense Relationship with Sweden Recent concerns over Russian aggression have led countries all around the Baltic Sea to take their security more seriously.... Read more »
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 March 22, 2018 Preparing for the Worst: Poland’s Military Modernization No one needs to remind Poland of the strategic dangers arising from its geography. Often sandwiched between great European... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 12, 2018 What Another Six Years of Putin Spells for Russia’s Economy Most Russians would be forgiven for skipping this month’s presidential election. With less than two weeks until polls open,... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 7, 2018 Bear at the Door: Poland Ponders its Strategic Environment Russian behavior has long influenced how safe Poles feel. Centuries of fending off or being subjugated by Russia (or,... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 2, 2018 Compete and Cooperate to Make U.S. National Security Strategies Great Again Colleagues at the U.S. Army War College recently published a piece making important arguments that largely echo the competitive... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 22, 2018 History Begins (Again) for the Pentagon Thanks to a near-myopic obsession with eradicating transnational Islamic terrorism, costly invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and... 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 July 13, 2017 U.S. LNG In Central and Eastern Europe – Taking Diversification Seriously Last week President Trump met in Warsaw with Polish officials and Central and Eastern European (CEE) leaders at the... Read more »