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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging conversation with Daunis Auers on:\n\nD
 on't Panic\, Don't Panic! The Baltic States in the New World Order\n\nRuss
 ia's annexation of Crimea in early 2014 kick-started a process of reassess
 ing security threats to the Baltic region and profound political and socia
 l change in the three Baltic states of Estonia\, Latvia and Lithuania. Rus
 sia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 further raised the t
 emperature and saw sharp rises in defense spending\, a restructuring of th
 e party system and new nationalizing domestic policies aimed at increasing
  social cohesion and tackling intelligence and misinformation threats from
  the East.\n\nHowever\, the first few months of the new presidential admin
 istration in the U.S.A. have\, arguably\, accelerated even greater change 
 in the three Baltic states as they are forced to rapidly adjust to a new w
 orld order. \n\nThis talk will reflect on how swiftly shifting US-European
  relations have led the Baltic states to reconsider their security arrange
 ments\, realign diplomatic partnerships and refocus core domestic policies
 .\n\nDaunis Auers is Professor of European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair a
 t the University of Latvia\, Director of the Latvia’s Strategy and Econo
 mic Research (LaSER) think tank and a member of the Latvian president’s 
 National Competitiveness Council. His recent research interests are in the
  comparative politics\, economics and regional integration of the Baltic a
 nd Nordic states and has recently worked on bureaucratic reform and effici
 ency. He is a member of the Latvian prime minister's working group on "Cut
 ting Bureaucracy". Professor Auers defended his PhD at University College 
 London and previously studied at the London School of Economics. He has be
 en a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California-Berkeley (2005-2006
 )\, University of Washington in Seattle (2023-2024) and a Baltic-American 
 Freedom Foundation Scholar at Wayne State University in Detroit (2014).\n\
 nFree and open to the public. Registration is requested.\n\nThis event is 
 part of Global Conversations\, a series of talks\, lectures\, and seminars
  hosted by Stanford University Libraries and Vabamu with the goal of educa
 ting scholars\, students\, leaders\, and the public on the benefits of but
  also challenges related to sustaining freedom.
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LOCATION:Hohbach Hall\, 122
SUMMARY:Don't Panic\, Don't Panic! The Baltic States in the New World Order
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