Book review : Foreign policy analysis of a Baltic state : Lithuania and ‘Grybauskaitė Doctrine’

Abstract

Foreign policy analysis of a Baltic state. Lithuania and ‘Grybauskaitė Doctrine’ by Tomas Janeliūnas takes the reader on an academic-historic journey through a diverse selection of possible lenses, including “small state”, “Baltic state(s)”, “Lithuanian foreign policy” and “Grybauskaitė as an actor”. These not necessarily overlapping paths coalesce around eleven chapters that seek to familiarize the reader with the foreign policy doctrine of Dalia Grybauskaitė, who served as president of Lithuania between 2009 and 2019. In the introductory chapter of the book, the author does not reveal or introduce the reader to the core essence of Grybauskaitė’s doctrine. Instead, the author only introduces the sources of studying the doctrine; namely, the speeches of Grybauskaite and interviews conducted while undertaking the research.