Characteristics of the baltic states

Abstract

This chapter focuses on and highlights the main events and factors which form(ed) the political and party systems of the Baltic states. The author points to the clear pro-Western orientation of all three countries, with all of them being members of NATO, the European Union, and the Eurozone, and discusses and compares the main features and characteristics of their political system (i.e. electoral system, the stability of the party system, the size of Russian minorities, and so on).