NATO Review: Hybrid influence – lessons from Finland

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Finland has a long history of being a small state living next to a huge and increasingly assertive neighbour, Russia. Trying to maintain constructive bilateral relations while being part of the West is tricky in the current security context.

From the Baltic region to the Black Sea and beyond, Russia is using both carrots and sticks, often unofficially and indirectly, to exert influence and to signal the potential for more negative policies. Read the NATO Review article, where Finnish experts share some of the lessons Finland has learned in recent years, at NATO Review website(Linkki toiselle web-sivustolle.).