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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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