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

Kazimierz Musiał and Zane Šime

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2021, vol. 52, issue 4, 483-501

Abstract: In periods of uncertainty or during critical junctures, scientific advice may be in high demand to provide legitimacy for political decision makers. This article outlines the evolution of expert forms of knowledge and the way those have shaped Baltic Sea region building, including its consultative and collaborative frameworks of agenda setting. The selected cases include HELCOM, the Copenhagen School of international relations and the Baltic Science Network. This article offers an explanation of how these epistemic collectives have produced consensual knowledge, generated legitimacy, and engendered agency of scientific research findings and knowledge-based decisions in national, transnational, and macro-regional settings.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2021.1964995

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