october 2018 ISSUE no. 3 EITVYDAS BAJARŪNAS Saara-Sofia Hybrid threats: Sirén Lithuania‘s Futures approach response to saving the Baltic Sea arto räty The Baltic Rim countries can lead the change Maximo Q. Mejia jr. for a cleaner Developing a regulatory world framework for autonomous shipping To receive a free copy, register at www.utu.fi/pei The Pan-European Institute publishes the Baltic Rim Economies (BRE) review which deals with the development of the Baltic Sea region. In the BRE review, public and corporate decision makers, representatives of Academia, as well as several other experts contribute to the discussion. Pan-European Institute ISSN 1459-9759 Editor-in-Chief | Kari Liuhto (responsible for writer invitations) Technical Editor | Reetta Mansikkaviita University of Turku Turku School of Economics Pan-European Institute Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 FI-20500 TURKU, Finland Tel. +358 29 450 5000 www.utu.fi/pei
[email protected] Data protection description 31.10.2018 Baltic Rim Economies ISSUE # 3 expert articles Elsi Katainen 4 Galina Gribanova 22 Zaiga Krišjāne 42 The Baltic Sea Region - US Russia-NATO confrontation on Seeing potential of young return relationship in the current trade the Baltic Sea migrants to Latvia turbulence Ivan Kurilla 23 Evija Klave 43 Saara-Sofia Sirén 5 US – Russian relations as Third country nationals’ integration Futures approach to saving international manifestation of in Latvia the Baltic Sea domestic culture wars NICO GROENENDIJK 44 Jaakko Ossa 6 Marcin Kaczmarski 24 The Baltic States: Affluent societies? Corporate income tax in Finland Russia and China: fellow travellers Gediminas Vitkus 45 EITVYDAS BAJARŪNAS 7 Mark D.