BALTIC SECURITY STRATEGY REPORT WHAT THE BALTICS CAN OFFER FOR A STRONGER ALLIANCE (original) (raw)

The Baltic Security Strategy Project was launched to promote Baltic regional security and defense. To achieve this, the project aimed to promote a public discussion on Baltic security, foster synchronization of Baltic security and defense, maintain the issue of Baltic security on the agendas of Baltic allies and partners, as well as help Baltic security experts cooperate among themselves and with experts in the United States. We brought together experts, professionals and scholars to assess the current state of security cooperation between the Baltic countries and issues we are facing together. In discussing these issues, we generated a set of recommendations for policymakers and produced a kind of roadmap to our strategic partners, NATO and EU. Since February 2017, the project has held over a dozen public events on Baltic security, gathering 250 participants and 90 security experts, organizing panel discussions in Riga, Brussels, Stanford and Washington, DC, featuring a dozen Baltic and American security, involving five American interns and presenting the results to top decision and opinion makers across the Transatlantic sphere. The conclusions of this process, our findings and recommendations are included in this final report. This report addresses challenges to Defense and Deterrence, Societal Security and Resilience, Economic Security, and Cyber Security. It focuses on solutions through intra-regional Baltic cooperation that also matter to wider regional security and the broader Transatlantic relationship.