ABSTRACT
This chapter provides insight into the importance of the maritime domain to the Baltic states, what importance they place on maritime security as reflected in their capabilities, policies, strategic documents and cooperative agreements, and how they could build on and preserve this unique element of national power into the future. It describes the importance and value of the access to the Baltic Sea for the Baltic states, alluded to challenges posed to future access for the some very small nations and recommended policies to promote the continued security and prosperity of their maritime element. All maritime security stakeholders in Estonia participated in an investigation led by the Estonian National Defence College into future options for the organisation of their maritime security apparatus. In one article in the Estonian press following the 2017 Warsaw Security Forum, one maritime analyst’s solution to deter Russian aggression in the Baltic Sea was to spend more money.
