The Baltic States And The Great Powers

Author : David Crowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000314809

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The Baltic States And The Great Powers by David Crowe Pdf

This is the first complete account of the diplomatic relations and military steps leading to Estonia's, Latvia's, and Lithuania's forcible absorption into the USSR in 1940. David Crowe—making use of recently opened archival sources—traces the Baltic states' relations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Great Britian, France and with one another from 1917-1940. He starts with an overview of 1917-1936 and then offers a detailed description of the diplomatic maneuvering that marked Europe's collective slide toward war. Crowe covers the Sudeten and Memel crises involving German communities in 1938, the German-Soviet Pact in August 1939, the mutual assistance pacts between the Baltic States and the USSR, the Baltic German migration, Soviet use of Estonia's military installations during their assault on Finland, and the subsequent Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. The story ends with the election of new, Soviet-sponsored legislatures that sought admission into the USSR as Soviet republics in 1940—a step that most Western countries never recognized, and one that the Baltic states finally reversed when they regained their independence fifty-one years later in August 1991.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : 9781428913424

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NATO Enlargement and the Baltic States by Stephen Blank Pdf

NATO's enlargement has brought it to the borders of the Baltic states who covet membership in NATO. However, admitting them into NATO is one of the most difficult problems for the Alliance because of Russia's unconditional opposition to such action and because of NATO's own internal divisions on this issue. Nonetheless, a new regime or system of security for the entire Baltic region must now be on the U.S. and European agenda. The key players in such a process are Russia, Germany, and the United States. Their actions will determine the limits of the possible in constructing Baltic security for the foreseeable future. Dr. Stephen Blank presents a detailed and extensive analysis of these three governments' views on Baltic and European security. Their views on regional security are materially shaped by and influence their larger views on their mutual relations and policy towards Europe. Their views also demonstrate the complexity of the issues involved in constructing Baltic, not to mention European, security. But because NATO enlargement is the most serious foreign policy and defense issue before Congress now, such an analysis can illuminate much of what is happening in the NATO enlargement process and why it has taken its current shape.

Author : David Crowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : 0429309031

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Author : David Crowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367290286

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The Baltic States And The Great Powers by David Crowe Pdf

This is the first complete account of the diplomatic relations and military steps leading to Estonia's, Latvia's, and Lithuania's forcible absorption into the USSR in 1940. David Crowe--making use of recently opened archival sources--traces the Baltic states' relations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Great Britian, France and with one another from 1917-1940. He starts with an overview of 1917-1936 and then offers a detailed description of the diplomatic maneuvering that marked Europe's collective slide toward war. Crowe covers the Sudeten and Memel crises involving German communities in 1938, the German-Soviet Pact in August 1939, the mutual assistance pacts between the Baltic States and the USSR, the Baltic German migration, Soviet use of Estonia's military installations during their assault on Finland, and the subsequent Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. The story ends with the election of new, Soviet-sponsored legislatures that sought admission into the USSR as Soviet republics in 1940--a step that most Western countries never recognized, and one that the Baltic states finally reversed when they regained their independence fifty-one years later in August 1991.

Author : Stephen Blank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : 1463724918

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NATO Enlargement and the Baltic States by Stephen Blank Pdf

NATO's enlargement has brought it to the borders of the Baltic states who covet membership in NATO. However, admitting them into NATO is one of the most difficult problems for the Alliance because of Russia's unconditional opposition to such action and because of NATO's own internal divisions on this issue. Nonetheless, a new regime or system of security for the entire Baltic region must now be on the U.S. and European agenda. The key players in such a process are Russia, Germany, and the United States. Their actions will determine the limits of the possible in constructing Baltic security for the foreseeable future. In this study, Dr. Stephen Blank presents a detailed and extensive analysis of these three governments' views on Baltic and European security. Their views on regional security are materially shaped by and influence their larger views on their mutual relations and policy towards Europe. Their views also demonstrate the complexity of the issues involved in constructing Baltic, not to mention European, security. But because NATO enlargement is the most serious foreign policy and defense issue before Congress now, such an analysis can illuminate much of what is happening in the NATO enlargement process and why it has taken its current shape. Therefore the Strategic Studies Institute presents this monograph in order to contribute to this emerging great debate over NATO's enlargement.

Author : Stephen J. Blank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1379677558

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NATO ENLARGEMENT AND THE BALTIC STATES: WHAT CAN THE GREAT POWERS DO?. by Stephen J. Blank Pdf

Author : James S. Corum
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : 3631653034

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The Second World War and the Baltic States by James S. Corum Pdf

This volume focuses on the history of the Baltic states in the Second World War. It discusses the nature of diplomacy, strategy, military operations, intelligence, occupation policies and propaganda, expanding and strengthening understanding of the Second World War as a pivotal event in the history of Europe in the 20th century.

Author : Alfred Erich Senn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Great powers
ISBN : UCSD:31822005917570

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The Great Powers, Lithuania and the Vilna Question 1920-1928 by Alfred Erich Senn Pdf

Author : John Hiden,Patrick Salmon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890577

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The Baltic Nations and Europe by John Hiden,Patrick Salmon Pdf

Of all the Soviet Union's subject nationalities, the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were the most determined and best organised in seizing the opportunities created by glasnost and perestroika to win freedom from Moscow's grip. At the time of first publication, in 1991, the final section of the book was speculative. Now for this revised edition, the authors have provided a new final chapter which brings the story up to date -- and the three republics to political independence again.

Author : Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863367

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Wars and Betweenness by Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau Pdf

The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.

Author : Patrick Salmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521891027

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Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940 by Patrick Salmon Pdf

Survey of the changing position of all four Nordic states in twentieth-century international relations.

Author : Jan Karski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010471046

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The Great Powers & Poland, 1919-1945 by Jan Karski Pdf

A comprehensive diplomatic history of a crucial period in the life of Poland when her destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland had been not much more than an object of the Great Powers' politics and changing interrelationships.

Author : Janina Šleivyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135181109

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Russia's European Agenda and the Baltic States by Janina Šleivyte Pdf

Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in 21st century, together with Russia’s relations with its former Soviet neighbours - but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia’s increasingly fractious relations with those institutions. This book discusses the development of Russia’s approach to the new security architecture in Europe and assesses the prospects for a more active engagement of Russia in the Baltic Sea region and Europe as a whole. The book considers the full range of issues affecting security, including energy, economic relations; the special position of Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave; and Russia’s special interest in the Russian minorities in the former Soviet Baltic states. The evolution of Russian-Baltic relations from 1990-2008 is set in the more general context of Russia’s European agenda, looking into the role and place of the Baltic States in this agenda. It provides a comparative analysis of the European agenda in of Russia’s foreign policy under Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and concludes that, despite the replacement of the former Cold War stand-off with a more positive climate and a complicated array of bilateral and multilateral contacts much more still needs to be done to engage Russia fully with the new Europe

Author : Richard Shirreff
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781681441375

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War with Russia by Richard Shirreff Pdf

The rapid rise in Russia's power over the course of the last ten years has been matched by a stunning lack of international diplomacy on the part of its president, Vladimir Putin. One consequence of this, when combined with Europe's rapidly shifting geopolitics, is that the West is on a possible path toward nuclear war. Former deputy commander of NATO General Sir Richard Shirreff speaks out about this very real peril in this call to arms, a novel that is a barely disguised version of the truth. In chilling prose, it warns allied powers and the world at large that we risk catastrophic nuclear conflict if we fail to contain Russia's increasingly hostile actions. In a detailed plotline that draws upon Shirreff's years of experience in tactical military strategy, Shirreff lays out the most probable course of action Russia will take to expand its influence, predicting that it will begin with an invasion of the Baltic states. And with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump recently declaring that he might not come to the aid of these NATO member nations were he to become president, the threat of an all-consuming global conflict is clearer than ever. This critical, chilling fictional look at our current geopolitical landscape, written by a top NATO commander, is both timely and necessary-a must-read for any fan of realistic military thrillers as well as all concerned citizens.

Author : Andres Kasekamp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307285

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A History of the Baltic States by Andres Kasekamp Pdf

In this key textbook, Andres Kasekamp masterfully traces the development of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, from the northern crusades against Europe's last pagans and Lithuania's rise to become one of medieval Europe's largest states, to their incorporation into the Russian Empire and the creation of their modern national identities. Employing a comparative approach, a particular emphasis is placed upon the last one hundred years, during which the Baltic states achieved independence, endured occupation by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and transformed themselves into members of the European Union. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking modules on Eastern or Central European History, Communism and Post-Communism, the Soviet Union, or Baltic Culture and Politics. Engaging and accessible, this is also an ideal introduction to the Baltic States for general readers.