منطقة البلطيق في الرؤية الاستراتيجية الروسية و الغربية

Abstract EN

The Baltic region has a strategic and geopolitical importance that has made it a focal point for regional and international ambitions and competition.

Even when its independence is achieved after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the beginning of a new phase in its history, the Baltic region remained a priority for the policies of the major international powers, especially between the Russian East and the Atlantic west Euro- American.

The Baltic region became a strategic magnet.

After the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states chose to integrate into the capitalist world, and the influence of NATO and the United States expanded, especially it represents The East-West Bridge, and the continued Eastern and Western competition around the region, this makes it the area of extension or vital area in both the Eastern vision and the Western Atlantic vision and according to the justifications, goals and interests of each.