Relations between NATO and Russia from the perspective of the Baltic states

ENPerhaps there is no better way to try to understand Russia's narrative, but - most importantly - its real perceptions and intentions vis-à-vis NATO, and especially the Baltic states, than to take a fresh look at the events that unfolded after the premature declaration of the end of the Cold War. Then, Francis Fukuyama believed that history had come to its end, in the sense of the decisive and irreversible victory of western liberal democracy over eastern communist oppression. However, Samuel Huntington's theory of the continuing and exacerbating clash of civilisations (albeit on the background of globalisation) proved to be largely the correct assumption. In this article, relations between NATO and Russia are considered mainly in the context of the Baltic states and the Baltic Sea theatre. [...].