Analysis February 5, 2025 Three Decades of Baltic Military Cooperation and the Way Ahead By: Māris Andžāns It is well known that the three Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, are distinct yet share many similarities. They are comparable in size and have similar social, political, and economic development. They are situated in similar geostrategic positions... Read more	Analysis February 4, 2025 Central Asian Migrants Face Harsh Treatment at Moscow’s Sakharovo Detention Center By: Bruce Pannier The lives of Central Asian migrant laborers in Russia have become much worse since the terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22, 2024, that left more than 140 people dead. Prior to that attack, these migrant... Read more	Podcasts January 31, 2025 Report in Short: Russian Strategic Culture and the War in Ukraine In this episode of Report in Short, Aaron Schwartzbaum speaks with Lieutenant Colonel Denys Yurchenko about his recent FPRI report, “Russian Strategic Culture and the War in Ukraine.“ In the report, Yurchenko observes Russia’s intentions through the lens of strategic culture theory... Read more
Podcasts January 29, 2025 Destigmatizing the Roma: The Most Forgotten Community in Lithuania Baltic Ways presents a bonus episode from our partners at the EUROPAST Podcast. The EUROPAST Podcast explores Europe’s most pressing challenges of public history, investigating the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for... Read more	Reports January 27, 2025 The Rise and Fall of Afghanistan’s Local Defense Forces By: Arturo Munoz This report was initially presented as a paper at the Post-9/11 Irregular Warfare Lessons Learned Conference in Annapolis, Maryland from September 17-18, 2024. The conference was sponsored by FPRI’s Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare and the... Read more	Analysis January 24, 2025 The Fight Against Disinformation: A Persistent Challenge for Democracy By: Kateryna Odarchenko Introduction Disinformation, the deliberate dissemination of false or misleading information to deceive or manipulate public opinion, represents a profound and ongoing threat to Western democracies. It erodes trust in institutions, fuels polarization, and undermines decision-making processes. Russian disinformation campaigns,... Read more
Podcasts January 16, 2025 Trump, Russia, and the Strategic Context Where does the US stand in the world as Trump (re)assumes office? How is his approach towards Ukraine shaping up? Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Aaron Schwartzbaum... Read more	Analysis January 13, 2025 Pacific Island Affairs and US Diplomatic Relations By: Michael Walsh Under the Biden administration, there have been a number of extraordinary events that have had a significant impact on US diplomatic relations with the Cook Islands, New Zealand, and Niue. Among other things, the Pacific Partnership Strategy changed the... Read more	Analysis January 10, 2025 Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2025? By: Colin P. Clarke Sitting down to write my annual assessment on trends in terrorism in early 2025, I am struggling more than usual, fresh off the horrors of an Islamic State (ISIS)-inspired terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed fourteen people and... Read more