Regional security and cooperation in the Arctic and Baltic: destabilisation follows Ukraine crisis

• Main Authors: Etzold, Tobias, Steinicke, Stefan
• Other Authors: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: DEU 2015
• Subjects: Internationale Beziehungen; Politikwissenschaft; International relations; Political science; Peace and Conflict Research; International Conflicts; Security Policy; International Politics; Foreign Affairs; Development Policy; Friedens- und Konfliktforschung; Sicherheitspolitik; Entwicklungspolitik; EU; East-West relations; Russia; Baltic States; defense policy; Ukraine; NATO; threat; policy of détente; Arctic; Baltic region; conflict management; Verteidigungspolitik; Nordpolargebiet; Russland; Bedrohung; Ostseeraum; Ost-West-Beziehungen; Baltikum; Entspannungspolitik; Konfliktregelung; 10500; Nordpol*
• Online Access: http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/44700; http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-447007

The Ukraine conflict has created a deep and long-running crisis of confidence in relations between the West and Russia, as Moscow challenges the foundations of the European security order. Russia's behaviour in the Baltic and Arctic regions, which it shares with members of NATO and the European Union, has become increasingly confrontative and presents an impediment to regional cooperation and security. While growing instability looms over these two regions, all the states there should maintain at least low-level regional cooperation with Russia, in order to prevent any further escalation of security tensions and at least partially restore trust. (author's abstract)