Mark Galeotti
Dr Mark Galeotti is director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence. He is also an honorary professor at UCL SSEES, a senior associate fellow at RUSI and a senior non-resident fellow at UMV, the Institute of International Relations Prague. A specialist on Russian security affairs, intelligence, organised crime and similar murky topics, he has also been a visiting professor at Charles University, Rutgers-Newark and MGIMO, a visiting fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a Jean Monnet Fellow at EUI, Florence. Previously, he has been Senior Lecturer in History and head of department at Keele University, UK, Professor of Global Affairs and departmental chair at New York University, attached to the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, as an adviser on post-Soviet security issues. He read history at Robinson College, Cambridge University and then took his doctorate in politics at the London School of Economics, after a brief time working in the City of London. A prolific writer, he has 20 authored and edited books to his name. He tweets as @MarkGaleotti and also blogs at In Moscow’s Shadows.
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This policy briefs outlines how one small Northern European state, Norway, and one Central European state, Czechia, assess and respond to a changing international political context. While located in different geopolitical settings, and with different histories, political systems and resources at their disposal, Norway and Czechia operate under many of the same international framework conditions.
How are Norwegian and Czech officials and policy makers evaluating contemporary developments? What do they identify as the key fears to which they must respond? Which partners and institutional structures have they traditionally relied on – and what indications of change (if any) can we now observe?
We find that Norway and Czechia face many common fears – from concerns about the international order and their global sense of place, to challenges to key institutions such as NATO and the EU, and concerning specific issues such as climate change, energy security, territorial security, and how to best respond to migration. We argue that these common fears could provide a springboard to greater cooperation that can diversify Czechia and Norway’s support networks and entrench a greater sense of international belonging for both countries.