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Russias European Agenda and the Baltic States

Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in the twenty-first century, together with Russias relations with its former Soviet neighbours but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russias increasingly fractious relations with those institutions. This book discusses the development of Russias approach to the new security architecture in Europe and assesses the prospects for a more active engagement of Russia in the Baltic Sea Region and Europe as a whole. It considers the full range of issues affecting security, including energy and economic relations; the special position of Russias Kaliningrad exclave; and Russias special interest in the Russian minorities in the former Soviet Baltic States.

The evolution of Russian-Baltic relations from 19902008 is set in the more general context of Russias European agenda, looking into the role and place of the Baltic States in this agenda. It provides a comparative analysis of the European agenda of Russias foreign policy under Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and concludes that, despite the replacement of the former Cold War stand-off with a more positive climate and a complicated array of bilateral and multilateral contacts, much more still needs to be done to engage Russia fully with the new Europe.

Janina Sleivyte is Senior Advisor to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence. She was formerly a member of the Defence Policy and Planning Division of the NATO International Staff. She holds a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy from Cranfield University (UK), and doctorate on astrophysics from Vilnius University.

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Janina Sleivyte

Russias European Agenda and the Baltic States

Janina Sleivyte

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2010
by Routledge
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2010 Janina Sleivyte

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Sleivyte, Janina.
Russias European agenda and the Baltic States / Janina Sleivyte.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Russia (Federation)Foreign relationsEurope. 2. EuropeForeign
relationsRussia (Federation) 3. Russia (Federation)Foreign relations
Baltic States. 4. Baltic StatesForeign relationsRussia (Federation)
5. Baltic StatesStrategic aspects. 6. National securityRussia (Federation)
7. National securityBaltic States. 8. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Russia (Federation) I. Title.
JZ1616.A54L45 2010
355.033547dc22 2009027137

ISBN 0-203-86183-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-55400-4 (hbk)

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ISBN13: 978-0-415-55400-8 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-86183-7 (ebk)

Contents

Illustrations

Maps

2.1	The former Soviet space: the CIS countries and the Baltic States
2.2	The GUUAM interregional grouping
4.1	The Kaliningrad oblast and its neighbourhood
6.1	The Kaliningrad exclave within the European Union
6.2	Russian military transit (primary transport line) via Lithuania
6.3	The railway route and air corridor of Russian military transit to and from the Kaliningrad oblast via Lithuania
7.1	The Baltic Sea Region

Tables

3.1	The resources of Russian foreign policy
3.2	Schools of thought in Russian foreign policy

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