ABSTRACT
The case studies of Estonia, Sweden, and Finland offer some evidence that their Baltic security strategies of engagement with Russia and military non-alignment with the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), respectively. Power relationships, interests, and identities interact in game theory models to specify grand strategies of appeasement, competition, balancing, or bandwagoning, which appear to represent present and future strategies by these states in the Baltic Sea Region. The chapter draws on a couple of sources for analytical assistance: typology of grand strategic orientations and set of general theoretical orientations. The use of game theory to generalize about Baltic security strategies approaches the third use of game theory identified by Snidal in its formal specification of security games with different strategies and ranked outcomes attributed to players. Mutual cooperation outcome between strong powers with appeasement strategies and weak powers with balancing strategies no matter whether their interests are symmetrical or asymmetrical.
