What can Lithuania offer for its Security?: Foreign Policy Dilemmas in Lithuania’s Relations with the United States

• Authors: Diana Jurgelevičiūtė
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Strategic partnership between states is a reciprocal exchange built on mutual commitment. The significance of the United States to Lithuania is unquestionable. However, why should the U.S. care about Lithuania? The emphasis on the U.S. interests and policies allows ignoring the question about Lithuania’s engagement and input into the partnership. Therefore, this article asks how does Lithuania contribute to the strategic partnership with the U.S.? To be precise, does Lithuania support and pledge its allegiance to the U.S. when this support goes beyond the limits of direct responsibilities of strategic partner, or even enters into a conflict with other important responsibilities or interests of the state?

Keywords

EN

Lithuanian foreign policy; United States interests; strategic partnership; UN General Assembly; voting

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-33

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-04-22

Contributors

author

Diana Jurgelevičiūtė

• holds PhD in Political Science from Vilnius University and is a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lfpr-2016-0001