Baltoscandia

The Baltoscandian Confederation or Baltoscandia is a geopolitical concept created by a Swedish professor Sten de Geer (16 April 1886 – 2 June 1933) in a journal Geografiska Annaler in 1928, the concept was further developed by Professor Kazys Pakštas (29 June 1893 – 11 September 1960), a Lithuanian scientist in the field of geography and geopolitics.The purpose of this concept was "to promote the idea of a Baltic–Scandinavian union (consisting of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania)."

Pakštas states in his book The Baltoscandian Confederation that the term Baltoscandia was first used by Prof. Sten de Geer in an article in "Geografiska Annaler" in 1928. In this book Baltoscandia is described in several different dimensions: as a geographical and cultural, as an economic and as a political and military unit. Prof. Kazys Pakštas proposed that one of the ways for the small nations to withstand the influence coming from the large ones is to unite and to cooperate more closely among each other. As he mentions, unification is possible only among nations that are similar by their size, geographical environment, religion, also they have to respect and to tolerate each other.

As the foreign policy of Lithuania has shifted towards Northern Europe even more after Dalia Grybauskaitė came into post of the President of Lithuania, voices questioning the return of the Baltoscandian Confederation idea are on the rise in this country.

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