Workshop “Seizing the crisis moment? Germany’s changing security role in the Baltic states”
November 10th, 10:00 AM, IIRPS VU, room 402
The Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University (IIRPS VU) along with Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research at the University of Greifswald are inviting you to the Workshop “Seizing the crisis moment? Germany’s changing security role in the Baltic states” which will take place on the 10th of November at IIRPS VU.
Over the past few years, Germany has significantly expanded its military presence in the Baltic states, most prominently by assuming NATO’s lead-framework nation status in Lithuania. Equally though, for a long time, Berlin pursued a Russia policy that was sharply at odds with the views of the three Baltic states. From the Baltic vantage point, German lawmakers have been too receptive to Russian influence and ideas about how European security should be organized. In light of Russia’s 2022 war of aggression against Ukraine, are German-Baltic geopolitical worldviews aligning at last? How has Germany’s defence policy orientation and discourses changed? Is the current Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) model, which Germany is an essential part of, sufficient to deter Russia? By gathering lead academics and policy practitioners in Vilnius, this workshop aims to evaluate key inflection points and controversies nestled within German-Baltic security relations.
You can find the programme here: https://bit.ly/Programme1110
