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Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

Subject Areas: Political Science and International Relations
Publisher: Sciendo - de Gruyter
ISSN: 1648-8024
SJR: 3

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American Foreign Policy in the Age of Donald Trump

Schultz, David

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0001

AbstractOften the best predictor of a new US president’s foreign policy is to look at his predecessor. Yet each president does leave his impact on American foreign policy. Donald Trump came to office with no government or foreign policy experience and his presidential campaign rhetoric suggested...
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The Trump Administration’s Security Policy and its Significance for the Baltic States

Jakštaitė, Gerda

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0002

Abstract“Designed many years ago, NATO is obsolete”, said Donald Trump in January 2017. Yet in August 2017, he said the US would be very protective of the Baltic region. In the US. National Security Strategy published in December 2017, the Trump administration said it would abide by “Article 5 of...
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Donald Trump’s International Economic Policy from the World System’s Perspective

Beržiūnas, Valentinas

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0003

AbstractSince 2016, the Trump administration has announced a series of protectionist measures: it suspended or reviewed the US participation in free trade agreements, taxing some imports, restricting foreign access to high-tech sector, and so on. Trump’s international economic policy has provoked...
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Strategic Stability: It Takes Two to Tango?

Karpavičiūtė, Ieva

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0004

AbstractThis article focuses upon the most recent trends in nuclear deterrence and strategic stability. It addresses the contemporary developments in three interconnected domains: first-strike, crisis and arms race stability. It traces the evolution of strategic stability studies, highlights the...
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The Role of Nationalism in the 21st Century System of International Relations

Statkus, Nortautas

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0005

AbstractNationalism is one of the great ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries, whose demise was widely expected with certainty at the end of the 20th century. But Brexit, the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States and constant gaining force by the Radical Right...
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Alliance between Putin and European Far-Right: Where Does the Convergence of Interests Lead?

Arridu, Veronica; Molis, Arūnas

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0006

AbstractThe study traces the development occurred in the alliance between Putin’s Russia and the European far-right parties since the European Parliamentary election held in May 2019. The article briefly summarizes the populist upsurge in Europe, exploring the reasons behind it. Consequently, the...
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European Security Architecture after the United Kingdom’s Withdrawal from the European Union: Future Scenarios

Isoda, Vytautas

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0007

AbstractThe European security architecture inherited from the period of the Cold War encompasses a few most important international organisations – first of all, NATO, EU and OSCE, members of which are most European countries – and institutional rules as well as numerous informal patterns of...
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Scenarios for Baltic Defence: What to Prepare Against

Milevski, Lukas

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0008

AbstractThis article considers Baltic defence strategically, focusing on three scenarios of Russian aggression against the Baltic states: 1) an ambiguous invasion, what the West would call a hybrid war; 2) a hasty invasion by Russian formations already in and around the Baltic region; and 3) a...
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Analysis of Securitization of the Baltic States in the Rhetoric of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Kaukas, Erikas

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0009

AbstractThe article aims to reveal the themes, intensity and reasons for the securitization of the Baltic States building on the analysis of the public rhetoric of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in 2008-2017. The current bilateral relations between Russia and the Baltic States happen to...
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Military Cooperation between Russia and Belarus: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Pugačiauskas, Virgilijus

2019 Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

doi:10.2478/lasr-2019-0010

AbstractThe article analyses the dynamics of military cooperation between Russia and Belarus at the time when Russia’s aggression against Ukraine revealed president Vladimir Putin’s objective to consolidate control over his interest zone in the nearest post-soviet area at all hazards. This could...

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