Baltic Sea Cooperation after the Cold War: How Sub-Regional Organisations Deal with Critical Junctures
Journal: Hart Publishing eBooks
Year: 2023

How international organisations adapt to external challenges is one of the core questions posed by scholars of both International Relations and public administration.Historical institutionalism, for example, seeks to grasp the dynamics unleashed by fundamental ruptures and during 'windows of opportunity'.External challenges in the guise of 'critical junctures' 2 often create the starting point for new path-dependent processes.Junctures are precisely ''critical' because they place institutional a