Baltic Sea Security, with Kristi Raik

Why is the Baltic sea region such a hotspot, despite having ninety percent of its coastline part of the EU? How to approach the dilemma of European strategic autonomy and how does it resonate for Baltic security? What to answer to those who claim that having NATO troops stationed in the Baltic states is inviting the Russians to escalate their engagement in the region? What to do with the growing presence of China and what does it mean for the transatlantic relationship? On this episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues and his guest Kristi Raik discuss all these questions - and more. Kristi Raik is the Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at ICDS and Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku. She has previously served inter alia as a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Programme Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki; an official at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels; and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and the International Centre for Policy Studies in Kyiv. She is also an author of numerous articles and publications on the European foreign and security policy. Find Kristi on Twitter at @KristiRaik Find Thibault on Twitter at @tmuzergues Visit ICDS’s website at https://icds.ee/en/ Visit IRI’s website at www.iri.org