The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s (FPRI) 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 United States.

The Baltic Initiative publishes monthly Baltic Bulletins by analysts from the Baltic States, Central Europe, and the US. The monthly Baltic Roundup newsletter, by Dr. Indra Ekmanis, features an overview of major political, cultural, and economic events in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

FPRI also produces the Baltic Ways podcast in partnership with the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. The podcast features monthly conversation with experts from the region on the past, present and future of the Baltic States — and the many ways these three countries impact the politics, history, and culture of the region and beyond.  

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FPRI'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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Communications Director, Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
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.
Director, FPRI's Eurasia Program.
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.
Assistant Director of Communications, FPRI