SECURITY COOPERATION IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION: TODAY AND FUTURE IN THE WORLD CONTEXT

Antanas Makštutis

doi:10.3846/16111699.2005.9636090

Abstract

The paper analyzes the global economic factors of security cooperation in the Baltic Sea region that have an effect on the present and future development of national markets in separate states of this region within the development of the common market of the European Union (EU). It is noted that the EU principal market factors of today: the free movement of people, goods and capital destabilizes the development of a separate state market in the Baltic Sea region, and the tasks of a national state in the future will become still more complicated. The work provides the research results of the factors of a specific geopolitical environment in the Baltic Sea region; the ways and methods are foreseen for solving the future political, economic and social problems in this region under the conditions of globalization.

Highlights

The Baltic Sea region has been and will be of special importance owing to its unique geopolitical environment, since the following states: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia (Kaliningrad region the subject of the Russian Federation), Poland, and Germany (10 national countries) are situated within this space and they are linked together geographically by the Baltic Sea, historical past, the reality of today and future forecasts of the complex development of national countries
Since the population of the European Union (EU) constitutes about 460 million people, and the Baltic Sea region has the population of 153 million, share of this region in the EU accounts for 33.3 %, the Baltic Sea region is of special importance for WestEast and EastWest political, economic and social relations in the world [7, 11, 14, 16, 17]
Ensuring of the future complex unity of political, economic, and social environmental factors of national states and societies in the WestEast and in the world under the conditions of global economy, which accelerate the accumulation of big capital and development at an intercontinental level or the monopolistic activities of the big corporations of the world on the markets of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America

Summary

Introduction

The Baltic Sea region has been and will be of special importance owing to its unique geopolitical environment, since the following states: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia (Kaliningrad region the subject of the Russian Federation), Poland, and Germany (10 national countries) are situated within this space and they are linked together geographically by the Baltic Sea, historical past, the reality of today and future forecasts of the complex development of national countries. Ensuring of the future complex unity of political, economic, and social environmental factors of national states and societies in the WestEast and in the world under the conditions of global economy, which accelerate the accumulation of big capital and development at an intercontinental level or the monopolistic activities of the big corporations of the world on the markets of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America. The result of those activities is positive and negative [27, 29, 30, 31]. At the end of the work the generalization of research results, conclusions and recommendations for strengthening of security cooperation in the Baltic Sea region are provided

Strategic survey of political environment for security cooperation

Strategic survey of economic environment for security cooperation

Strategic survey of social environment for security cooperation

Conclusions

Findings

Future Lithuanian the World Context