This book is the first systematic and comparative effort to capture political culture in the Baltic countries, including political orientation and regime support. Revolving around public opinion data from the 1990s and onwards, the authors analyse the cultural environment prevailing in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania a quarter of a century after reclaiming independence and fifteen years after becoming members of NATO and the EU. These three countries share the same geopolitical fate and many contemporary challenges, and yet each has been marked by their own transitions and struggles between nation building and European integration, Western and post-Soviet orientations, and past experience and future aspirations. weiterlesen