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The Dynamics of Cooperation in the Wider Baltic Region

Feb 23, 2012 | 13:27 GMT

From left: Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvian President Andris Berzins, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in Vihula, Estonia, on Dec. 2

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Summary

A shift in Europe is increasing pressure on the European Union and NATO. These pressures are contributing to a growing trend of regionalization, or the intensification of cooperation in smaller regional groupings, within these two blocs. One of the most important of these potential groupings is centered in the Baltic region. Though there are numerous challenges to the emergence of a more consolidated group in the region, several recent events indicate that regionalization is likely to intensify in the coming years.

Countries in the wider Baltic region are increasing economic and security cooperation to better satisfy their interests....

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