The security dilemma in the Baltic Sea Region and its impact on the regional security and defense cooperation
By:  Holger Mölder
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Description: This thesis argues that the Baltic Sea region still faces significant security challenges in the post-Cold War era. In particular, nations in the region confront a "cooperative security dilemma." Baltic Sea countries are adopting a range of cooperative agreements to strengthen their security. By doing so, however, they may risk alienating other nations that are left out of those agreements, and thereby create an unstable security environment. This thesis examines the nature of the cooperative security dilemma in the Baltic Sea region, and analyzes how Baltic      Sea nations can cooperate in the future without posing a threat to other nations, including Russia. This thesis argues that the Baltic Security Assistance (BALTSEA) program offers a model of future security arrangements which could avoid the problems of the security dilemma.
Notes: "December 1998."

Thesis advisor(s): Rodney Kennedy-Minott, Paul N. Stockton.

Thesis (M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Relations) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-90).

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited.

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Republic of Estonia author (civilian).

dk/dk cc:9116 02/05/99.