FPRI Baltic Initiative
FPRI Eurasia Program, Indra Ekmanis, Lukas MilevskiFPRI's Baltic Initiative was founded in 2016 to serve as a hub for analysis on defense and geopolitical issues of the Baltic Sea region, as well as the region’s role in European security, and implications for the US.
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Slow Memory, Slow Conflict
In this episode of Baltic Ways, Dr. Indra Ekmanis speaks with Professors Violeta Davoliūtė and Ene Kõresaar about their contributions to a special issue of Slovak Ethnology. Co-edited by Davoliūtė, the issue focuses on slow memory. Kõresa...
Monthly Roundup | April 2026
Still from the animation “Yozhik v tumane,” or “Hedgehog in the Fog.” (Filmaffinity)
Dear readers,
In the 1975 “Hedgehog in the Fog,” a Soviet animation by Yuri Norstein, a small hedgehog on its way to visit its friend, the bear cub, for...
Baltic Roundup | March 2026
The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) member countries convened in Helsinki for a March 26 summit. (Flickr | TPKanslia)
Dear readers,
The rippling impacts of the US-Israeli war on Iran have quickly spanned the globe, and the Baltic countri...
The Motivation of Memory in Estonian Politics
On June 14, 1941, the Soviet Union deported more than 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia. Eight years later, Soviet authorities deported 20,000 more. These deportations have left a lasting legacy on Estonian society, though the majority...
Targeting the Russian Rear Zone in a Hypothetical Baltic War
A 2025 demonstration of an M3 amphibious system allowing for heavy machinery to cross rivers without a bridge (Facebook | Aizsardzības ministrija)
If Russia were ever to bring war to the Baltic, certainly the Baltic States themselves would...
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The Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute was founded in 2015 with the aim of examining the political, security, economic, and social trends shaping Europe and Eurasia.
Dr. Indra Ekmanis is a Baltic Sea Fellow and the Editor of the Baltic Bulletin at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. She is the host of the Baltic Ways podcast from FPRI and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
Tenured assistant professor at Leiden University teaching strategic studies to BA and MA students. Latvian-American.
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