Germany and the Baltic Sea Region: Proposals for the New Federal Government
Journal: ResearchWorks at the University of Washington (University of Washington)
Year: 2018

The Baltic Sea Region (BSR), consisting of Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, has increasingly become a theater for confrontation between Russia and the West. As the largest Western state in the BSR and a member of both NATO and the European Union, Germany should take the lead in developing regional approaches that more effectively address Russian threats while signaling an abiding interest in cooperation with all the region’s states. Tensions in t