How to build the legitimacy of regional integration on rational foundations: a case of epistemic communities in the Baltic Sea area

Musiał, Kazimierz; Šime, Zane

doi:10.1080/01629778.2021.1964995

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“…22-23). It thereby represents a development over and beyond the earlier model of environmentalism as a dominant paradigm (Biermann, 2020;Musiał & Šime, 2021).…”

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Earth system governance and science diplomacy: commonalities of emerging shapers of institutions

Šime

2022

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Earth System Governance (ESG) is a broadly formulated network of research agencies and governance bodies which aims to integrate science with policy and governance as a means of managing environmental change. Taking into consideration the broader context of ongoing attempts to define optimal solutions for major contemporary challenges, a comparison of ESG and science diplomacy focuses on four commonalities. The purpose of this comparison is to explore mutual learning opportunities because both strands of enquiry aim at addressing the global challenges in a comprehensive manner through tailored relations between science or research and policy or diplomacy. ESG and science diplomacy share an interest in exploring the top-down and bottom-up dynamics of multi-level governance, circulation of ideas, terms, including the expansion of their meanings, experimentation outside the existing institutional structures, as well as anticipation of future developments. A primary focus on Europe articulates areas where ESG and science diplomacy may find thematic intersections for mutual learning.

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“…22-23). It thereby represents a development over and beyond the earlier model of environmentalism as a dominant paradigm (Biermann, 2020;Musiał & Šime, 2021).…”

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Earth system governance and science diplomacy: commonalities of emerging shapers of institutions

Šime

2022

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“…Examples of the integration processes of the countries that are geographically close, e.g. the Benelux countries (Korauš et al, 2018), the Nordic countries (Stie & Trondal, 2020), the Baltic countries (Musiał & Šime, 2021), the Visegrad countries (Kajánek, 2022), which are in line with European values and the Schengen Agreement (Felbermayr et al, 2018) could be a good guide for successful regional cooperation in the Western Balkans. Regional initiatives could contribute to the socio-economic development of the Western Balkans.…”

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The Open Balkan as a Development Determinant of the Western Balkan Countries

Rikalović

Molnar

Josipović

2022

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The paper starts from the concept of the Open Balkan as a community of countries in the Western Balkans, aimed at strengthening their economic cooperation and development for faster integration in the European Union. Significant attention is paid to the analysis of the interdependence of (in)stability of the state and the economic development of small countries. The position of the Open Balkan and its members is also analysed on the basis of the selected global composite indices. An important subject of the analysis is also the condition of institutional capacities of the members of the Open Balkan and their institutional cooperation from the perspective of faster progress towards the European integration. Two main hypotheses have been tested in the paper: (H1) CEEs countries are not a homogeneous group of countries; and (H2) The Western Balkans is a relatively homogeneous regional integration. To test the convergence hypothesis between 16 Central and Eastern European countries (CEEs), annual data from World Bank’s database on the value of real gross domestic product per capita (in constant dollars 2017, PPP) in the period 2000-2026 were used (projected values for the period until 2026). We employed the method developed by Phillips & Sul (2007) that allows identification of clusters of convergence on the basis of an algorithm that is data-driven and thereby avoids a priori classification of the data into subgroups. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that Serbia is the “locomotive” of the Western Balkans and that all countries in this area should join the regional initiative for cooperation, the Open Balkan.

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Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor

Wood

2024

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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How to build the legitimacy of regional integration on rational foundations: a case of epistemic communities in the Baltic Sea area

Cited by 3 publications

References 66 publications

Earth system governance and science diplomacy: commonalities of emerging shapers of institutions

Earth system governance and science diplomacy: commonalities of emerging shapers of institutions

The Open Balkan as a Development Determinant of the Western Balkan Countries

Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor

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