SustainSecure – Forum on Sustainable Security
In explaining what a grand strategy in his 2009 „Next 100 years“ book, George Friedman offered Lithuania as an iliustration: “All nations have grand strategies, though this does not mean all nation can achieve their strategic goals. Lithuania’s goal is to be free of foreign occupation. But its economy, demography, and geography make it unlikely that Lithuania will ever achieve its goal more than occasionally and temporarily.” Indeed, the membership of the Baltic States in NATO and EU is a historically unlikely achievement. Small and open economies in an exposed geography are a litmus test for the ability of EU to maintain the economic, welfare and security achievements of the long peace in Europe. In the age of rising great power rivalry Friedman’s argument is as relevant as ever, and this forum is committed to bringing researchers that think hard on what actions could allow EU and democracies in its periphery to work together to maintain and enhance European security.
The forum has emerged from academic events organized annually since 2003. It is co-organized by Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Public Security Academy and General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy on behalf of Sustainable security network which unites researchers from across Europe.
SustainSecure 2026
Scientific Committee:
- Co-chair: Prof. Dr Rūta Adamonienė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
- Co-chair: Assoc. prof. Dr Gitana Dudzevičiūtė, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
- Prof. Dr José Luis Vázquez Burguete, University of Leon, Spain
- Prof. Dr Alla Cherep, Zaporizhzhia National University, Ukraine
- Prof. Dr Olena Khadzhynova, Priazovskyi State Technical University, Mariupol, Ukraine
- Prof. Ing. CSc. Josef Koubek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
- Prof. Dr Aušra Pažėraitė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
- Prof. Dr Aurelija Pūraitė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
- Prof. Dr Aušra Rūtelionė, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
- Prof. Dr Borys Samorodov, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
- Prof. Dr Živilė Stankevičiūtė, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
- Prof. Dr Maria Isabel Sánchez-Hernández, University Extremadura, Spain
- Assoc. prof. Dr Irena Figurska, Pomeranian University in Slupsk, Poland
- Assoc. prof. Dr Lienite Litavniece, Rezekne Academy of Technologies, Latvia
- Assoc. prof. Dr Ewa Matuska, Pomeranian University in Slupsk, Poland
- Dr Justyna Majchrzak-Lepczyk, Hipolit Cegielski State University of Applied Sciences in Gniezno, Poland
- Dr Aneta Sokół, University of Szczecin, Poland
