Contributors
Lukas Milevski is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University, where he teaches strategy on the MA International Relations and BA International Studies programs. He is a Baltic Sea Fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has published two books with Oxford University Press, The Evolution of Modern Grand Strategic Thought (2016) and The West’s East: Contemporary Baltic Defense in Strategic Perspective (2018).
Una Bergmane is an Academy Research Fellow with the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. She holds a PhD from Sciences Po Paris. In the past, she was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and a teaching fellow at the London School of Economics. Her first book, Politics of Uncertainty: the United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, (Oxford University Press, 2023), investigates the triangular relations between the US government, Baltic independence movements, and Moscow during the perestroika years.
Otto Tabuns is a founding director of the Baltic Security Foundation. He holds a master of laws in public international law and has worked for ten years on security and defense policy and research. Tabuns has co-edited five books and authored articles on Baltic security in the context of European and Transatlantic security. He is a visiting lecturer at the Riga Graduate School of Law and has given guest lectures on his research in European and American universities.
Linas Kojala is the Director of the Eastern Europe Studies Centre, a think tank in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. He is currently serving as an associate at the negotiation task force, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard university. He was a Baltic Sea Fellow in FPRI’s Eurasia Program in 2020.
Arta Snipe is an attorney at law from Latvia and a researcher at the Center for Geopolitical Studies Riga. She teaches transitional justice at Riga Stradiņš University.
Daniels Kauliņš is a research assistant at the Center for Geopolitical Studies in Riga. Daniels holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and his field of expertise includes defense studies of the Baltic region.
Samuel Kramer is a PhD candidate at the University of St. Andrews and a former Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tartu. He has a Bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and a Master of Arts from Georgetown University’s Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. He specializes in minority rights in the post-Soviet space and their intersection with the democratization process.
Thomas J. Shattuck is a Senior Program Manager at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. His research focuses on cross-Strait relations, Taiwanese and Chinese domestic and foreign affairs, Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, and the US role in the Indo-Pacific. Shattuck is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Global Taiwan Institute, Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, member of Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Foreign Policy Initiative, and the Pacific Forum’s Young Leaders Program. He received a BA from La Salle University in history and English writing and an MA in international studies from the National Chengchi University.
Māris Andžāns is the Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies Riga. Currently he is based in Bonn, Germany at the Academy of International Affairs NRW.