The Norwegian government recently applied for full membership of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. Stefan Gänzle and Marco Pietro D’Attoma write that the threat posed by Russia has shown Norway can no longer manage security in Northern Europe from the sidelines. For much of the post-Cold War era, the Baltic Sea area drifted quietly out of Europe’s strategic imagination. That calm is gone. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s diplomatic pressure on Greenland have thrust the “Wider North” globally, and the Baltic Sea area regionally, back into the geopolitical spotlight. What was once a largely cooperative...

There is a major sticking point often overlooked in the ceasefire negotiations between Ukraine and Russia currently being held in Abu Dhabi. This relates to the fact that, as part of any agreement, Kyiv is being asked to give up the entire Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. If it does so, it will also be giving up the strategic positions that have prevented major advances by the Russian military for many months now. This is the significant line of defensive fortifications across the Donbas, known as the “Donbas line”. It’s Ukraine’s equivalent to the Maginot line of forts which were France’s...

The Norwegian government recently applied for full membership of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region....

There is a major sticking point often overlooked in the ceasefire negotiations between Ukraine and Russia currently being held...