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For Security and For Peace: States and Societies of the Baltic Sea Basin and the Russian-Ukrainian War book cover

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For Security and For Peace States and Societies of the Baltic Sea Basin and the Russian-Ukrainian War

Edited By Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek, Marzena Cichosz, Danuta Plecka, Anna Jach Copyright 2025
224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book formulates a conceptual framework to analyse the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. It examines the strategies of the Baltic states and the attitudes of the societies of the Baltic Sea basin, directed not only towards limiting the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war but also towards restoring peace and ensuring future security in the region. It assesses the Baltic states during and after... Read more

List of tables

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Introduction

JOLANTA ITRICH-DRABAREK AND ANNA JACH

PART I

States and their initiatives 

1 Values and ‘anti-values’ in times of war and peace

JOLANTA ITRICH-DRABAREK AND DANUTA PLECKA

2 The Baltic Sea states in the face of war and peace

JOANNA KOZIERSKA, JOANNA MARSZAŁEK-KAWA, BEATA SŁOBODZIAN AND AGATA WŁODKOWSKA

3 Impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the Baltic area’s economy

KATARZYNA KOSOWSKA AND AGATA NIEWIADOMSKA

4 Sweden, Finland and the Russian-Ukrainian war and prospects for its end

MONIKA BANAŚ

5 The vision of peace à la Putin: Russia’s strategic objectives towards the Baltic Sea states in the context of the war in Ukraine

MAGDALENA LACHOWICZ AND AGNIESZKA LEGUCKA

6 The role of states and international organisations in bringing war crimes to account in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war: from documenting crimes to trying war criminals

AGNIESZKA FLORCZAK, ANNA JACH AND JOANNA ROSŁON-ŻMUDA

PART II

Social activism in Baltic Sea states

7 Societies of the Baltic Sea states in the face of security issues

PIOTR SULA, KAMIL BŁASZCZYŃSKI AND MICHAŁ KUŚ

8 Social activism for peace models in the Nordic and Baltic Sea states

MAGDALENA LACHOWICZ

9 ‘When peace comes’: activities undertaken in the Baltic region states to preserve Ukraine’s cultural capital

MAŁGORZATA MADEJ, MAŁGORZATA MYŚLIWIEC AND KAROLINA TYBUCHOWSKA-HARTLIŃSKA

10 ‘It’s not our war’: social movements against state involvement in aid to Ukraine

MARZENA CICHOSZ, ELŻBIETA SZYSZLAK AND RENATA PODGÓRZAŃSKA

11 Between just and unjust war: social movements in Germany and their attitude to the Russian-Ukrainian war

KATARZYNA KAMIŃSKA-KOROLCZUK AND MARLENA PIOTROWSKA

12 Between fear and courage: Russians vis-à-vis the oppressive state

ANNA JACH AND MAGDALENA LACHOWICZ

13 Conclusion

DANUTA PLECKA AND MARZENA CICHOSZ

Index of persons

Biography

Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek is a political scientist and professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Marzena Cichosz is a political scientist, researcher and professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Wrocław, Poland.

Danuta Plecka is a professor at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, and is editor of the series Demokracja w Polsce po . . . [Democracy in Poland after . . .] (2005, 2007 and 2015).

Anna Jach is a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She works at the Department of Eurasian Area Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

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