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Turning towards the inland sea? Swedish ’soft diplomacy‘ towards the Baltic Soviet republics before independence

Thomas LundénCentre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Huddinge, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 347-368 | Received 02 Jul 2020, Accepted 24 Feb 2021, Published online: 10 Mar 2021

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