Over the past five years, EU Member States have increasingly invoked the concept of strategic autonomy in their political discourse. Initially, the content of this concept was mainly composed of a commitment to participate in international security issues as a united actor without NATO and the US. Most countries
On December 2nd the Rīga Conference Lecture Series began with a "Lecture on Belarus" by Dr. Aliaksei Kazharski, Researcher at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations of the Comenius University, Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies of Charles University in Prague. In the
The Rīga Conference 2020 will take place on the 12th and 13th of November online. The conference will gather high level experts and decision-makers. This year, parallel to the conference, four side events will be taking place online as well. One of them is “Women,
The Rīga Conference 2020 will take place on the 12th and 13th of November online. The conference will gather high level experts and decision-makers. Its participants will have the opportunity to hear from the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, the President of the European
On September 29, the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, Vice-President of the Estonian Atlantic Association (EATA) Krista Mulenok, in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Latvia, invited Baltic Sea region Atlantic Treaty Organizations to a discussion on topical security issues. During the discussion, participants presented profiles
On September 18, 2020 the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, in cooperation with Estonian Atlantic Treaty Association (EATA) organised an online expert discussion on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Comprehensive Defence. NATO Defense Institution and Capacity Building Director Mark DiPaolo, Undersecretary for Defense Policy of
On September 4, in the framework of the Conversation Festival LAMPA, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia organised a discussion entitled “Comprehensive State Protection – Covid-19 analysis and training”, in which Dr Artis Pabriks, Defence Minister of Latvia, Mārtiņš Baltmanis, Deputy Head
This book analyzes the small Baltic States and their integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures from the perspective of the foreign policies of major powers - the United States, Russia, and major European powers and institutions - towards the region, or each of the Baltic States.
On 30th July, Secretary General of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation Sigita Struberga participated in the broadcast “Two Hemispheres” (“Divas puslodes”). She discussed issues of interest, such as the British-Chinese relations, the new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Asia, as well as the relentless protests
On June 29, Chairwoman of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, Professor Žaneta Ozoliņa, gave an interview on the Global Peace Index in the radio broadcast “Afternoon” (“Pēcpusdiena”). Global peace has deteriorated over the last year, and this is the fourth time in the last
Latvian Transatlantic Organisation with Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) and the Latvian Association of Political Scientists (LPb) had assembled the attendees for the Global Peace Index presentation on June 29. The presentation took place in a Zoom conference call, and it was the only
"Although currently in the political and media agenda Covid-19 has taken the main place, it is unacceptable that in this emergency situation individual politicians in the fight against Covid-19 are prepared to “throw” Latvia's defence budget, forgetting that the armed forces are the backbone of public security in both military