FINNISH SECURITY DILEMMA, NATO AND THE FACTOR OF EASTERN EUROPE
Journal: World Economy and International Relations
Year: 2019

The article considers security dilemma as a tool to assess domestic discussion on possible NATO accession that has been taking place in Finland since intensification of the conflict between Russia and the West after 2014. The authors reveal that the ongoing Finland&rsquo;s domestic discussion on NATO seriously differs from the discussion that took place in Finland after the fall of the Iron Curtain in late 1980s &ndash; early 1990s. On one hand, some participants of the ongoing discussion fear t