By Mark F. Cancian , Sean Monaghan , and Daniel Fata
NATO will hold a leaders’ summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next month. In preparation for that summit, the CSIS International Security Program conducted a study on Baltic security. This commentary summarizes the results of that study. CSIS will publish the full report on July 6.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has radically changed NATO’s security environment, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies comments. The renewed sense of threat is perhaps most acute among the three Baltic members―Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia―which have long been vulnerable to Russian aggression.
