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.

摘要

在不确定时期或关键时刻，可能需要大量科学建议来为政治决策者提供合法性。本文概述了专家知识形式的演变以及它们塑造波罗的海地区建设的方式，包括其议程设置的协商和协作框架。选定的案例包括 HELCOM、哥本哈根国际关系学院和波罗的海科学网络。本文解释了这些认知集体如何在国家、跨国和宏观区域环境中产生共识性知识、产生合法性并产生科学研究结果和基于知识的决策的代理。