title: THE BALTIC STATES – BETWEEN NATO’S PROTECTION AND RUSSIA’S THREAT –
abstract: The three Baltic countries carry with them the heavy burden of the Soviet past, alongside their positioning in an area of interest to both the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia. The main research directions and the hypothesis of the present paper are grounded on the premise of the realistic approach in the study of international relations, according to which states are rational actors and lead a permanent competition to increase their power towards hegemony, as well as on the theoretical ground
journal: Romanian Military Thinking