The Nordic Way: Path to Baltic Equilibrium - Softcover

This analysis of the delicate Nordic Balance and the role it has played in recent history is an excellent introduction to the study of Soviet policy in Scandinavia. It focuses on the history of mutual entanglement among the Slavs, Germans, and Nordic peoples in peace as well as in war. The Nordic Balance meant that the NATO membership of Norway, Denmark, and Iceland was balanced by Finland's security relationship with Russia, while Sweden's armed neutrality acted as a buffer between the Eastern and Western spheres of influence. The concept embodied a tacit recognition by all parties that this balance was stable & that any attempt to tilt it would meet a corresponding reaction from the other side.

Edward L. Killham, a career Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister-Counselor, has had nemerous diplomatic assignments in Eastern and Western Europe, in NATO Headquarters, and in arms control negotiations, including SALT, MBFR, and CSCE, where he served as Deputy Chairman of the U.S. Deligation in Madris in 1982-83. A former jazz musician, he holds degrees from Northwestern, Harvard, and Columbia Universities and studied at the London School of Economics; he speaks French, Russian, and Danish. He is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and is a Councillor of The Atlantic Council. Since his retirement from the Foreign Service in 1987, he has served as an advisor to the United States Information Service, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Naval War College, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has published numerous articles in professional and news journals.