Lithuania in the U. S. foreign and security policy: a version of the WikiLeaks "CableGate" archive
ENWithout any doubt, the publicizing of the WikiLeaks “CableGate” archive is not an ordinary event for researchers of international relations and foreign policy. It is common that documents of diplomatic correspondence become accessible to researchers and society considerably later, when persons mentioned in them have already resigned from active politics, when the facts mentioned have retained only historical but not actual political significance. Meanwhile, researchers of current politics have to content themselves with official statements, press releases and other open sources, since documents capable of revealing many interesting facts remain classified. Therefore it often remains both possible and fair to speculate and to attempt to model a possible reasoning logic and principles of the diplomats who have prepared decisions, and of the politicians who have taken decisions. Thus, despite all the controversy, fuelled by the publicizing of the documents, we can enjoy a unique opportunity to look around the backstage of foreign policy (or, to be more exact, look at a small part of it) of that great player of world politics, the USA. In this text we will survey those cables that are related to Lithuania. All in all, the name of Lithuania was mentioned in 2,377 cables. This makes up 0.95 % of the total of 251,287 cables. Among them are also 903 cables of the U. S. Embassy in Vilnius, which make up 0.36 % of all the cables held in the archive. There is nothing to be surprised at here – Lithuania is a small state; therefore its place in the policy of the super-state completely corresponds to its real political weight [p. 37].
