"Extended Cooperative Security" in the Baltic Sea Region
Journal: The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs
Year: 2016

IntroductionOne of the pillars of the new NATO has been partnership building with countries in Europe and around the world. As a senior NATO official stated in 2014: NATO's partnerships are a largely unseen, but hugely important part of the Alliance today.1 In his introduction, Wojciech Lorenz briefly mentions the need to strengthen partnerships in the south and to come to terms with the schizophrenic treatment of Russia, still officially a partner but also a threat to the Alliance.2 This contri