ABSTRACT

This article analyses the transformation of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the nature of changes in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). By applying Brian Hocking’s analysis of ‘gatekeeper image’ and ‘boundary-spanner image’, the answers to the question of how the MFA in the three Baltic countries adapt to the transformation of the international system in the twenty-first century have been sought. Foreign policy yearbooks, reports, and 48 in-depth interviews with high rank diplomats form the basis of the empirical material of this research.

中文翻译：

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波罗的海国家外交部的转型

摘要

本文分析了外交部（MFA）的转型以及波罗的海国家（爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和立陶宛）变化的性质。运用布赖恩·霍金对“守门人形象”和“跨界者形象”的分析，寻找波罗的海三国外交部如何适应21世纪国际体系转型的答案。外交政策年鉴、报告和对高级外交官的 48 次深入采访构成了本研究的实证材料的基础。