Welcome to an FOI defence and security policy seminar "Baltic Security and Defensibility: New Threats in a New World" on October 30th
The Baltic states have been considered as the most geopolitically vulnerable of the EU and NATO countries. But are geopolitical issues the dominant ones in the threat perceptions of the Baltic states? Or have new threats, in the fields of cyber and energy security, become the crucial ones? Furthermore, the Baltic states work actively to shape the Nordic-Baltic community. What are the linkages, in terms of security policy, between the Baltic states and the Scandinavian states? Is it relevant to consider the whole Nordic-Baltic region as a security community, in which all countries share the same security setting and threat perceptions?These issues are discussed in a recent FOI report (The Security and Defensibility of the Baltic States: A Comprehensive Analysis), authored by Bo Ljung, Tomas Malmlöf, Karlis Neretnieks and Mike Winnerstig (ed.). In order to ventilate the results of the report, we hereby invite you to a seminar at the FOI premises in Kista. The report will be discussed by national experts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Venue: FOI (Room Jupiter), Gullfossgatan 6, Kista, Stockholm
Date: Tuesday, 30th October 2012
Time: 09.00-17.00
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Programme:
0900 Coffee and registration
0930 Presentation of the report "Baltic Security and Defensibility" by the authors
1030 Comments on aspects of the report by external analysts
1145 Lunch
1300 Estonian perspectives
1400 Latvian perspectives
1500 Coffee break
1530 Lithuanian perspectives
1630 Summing up the perspectives
1700 End of seminar
