The Common Base and Northern Cooperation Already during the Cold War the Nordic states formed a security community, but high politics was avoided on the common agenda and crystallized in the concept ‘Nordic balance’. It softened the East-West confrontation in Europe, but together with the sense of community gave also…
Read MoreIn March 2010, Daphne Park died at the age of 88. As The Times noted in an obituary, she was ‘one of MI6’s most treasured intelligence officers’ whose ‘final job at MI6 was as Controller of the Western Hemisphere which included North America, South America and Canada’. (The Times, 26…
Read MoreThe Baltic States’ troubled history with their giant neighbour to the East and nearest nuclear power is well known. Since their admission to NATO, their relations with Russia have been colder than at any other time since the end of the Cold War. Some of the reasons for this is…
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