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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">lasr</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2335-870X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-8024</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">5_MALUZINAS_23</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47459/lasr.2025.23.5</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Gabrielius Landsbergis’ Foreign Policy Doctrine (2020–2024): Ideas, Strategic Priorities and Diplomatic Practice</article-title>
      </title-group>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2772-9534</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Malužinas</surname>
            <given-names>Martinas</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:martinasmaluzinas@gmail.com">martinasmaluzinas@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_lasr_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_lasr_aff_000">Koszalin University of Technology</aff>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>23</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>127</fpage>
      <lpage>154</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>02</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access">
          <license-p>Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY)</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>The aim of this article is to evaluate the tenure of Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis, through the lens of successes and failures on the international stage with selected countries. From a research perspective, Landsbergis’s term at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be analyzed in the context of continuity and change within Lithuanian foreign policy, framed by the neo-idealism approach. This analysis revealed that despite the lack of strategic guidelines for Lithuania’s foreign policy, it was perceived by external stakeholders as relatively predictable and values-driven, particularly with regard to specific actions taken by the Lithuanian government towards China, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Taiwan.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Landsbergis</kwd>
        <kwd>foreign policy</kwd>
        <kwd>neo-idealism</kwd>
        <kwd>Lithuania</kwd>
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