The aim of the present study is to investigate a multilateral law enforcement cooperation, the Baltic Sea Task Force, and explain some of the factors that may be the reasons for its successful implementation. Choosing to see the Baltic Sea Task Force framework similar to an attempt to create a cooperation forming one international epistemic community from several national ones, I investigate how and to what extent knowledge has been transferred between the communities, and how this was planned for in the original mission mandate. I investigate problems of knowledge transfer across the network of communities (national law enforcement agencies). Since knowledge is context based, the specific context encodes the knowledge, reflecting the nature of the subject area and the community’s norms and values. Explicit knowledge needs embedded tacit understanding to fully work. In turn, embeddedness needs trust, common processes, joint norms and values. Consequently, there must also be a transfer of these norms and values in order for the embeddedness to take place. I investigate how this context-dependent knowledge is received, and how such decoding is assisted by the framework. Where decoding seems to have been slow, I examine possible reasons for this, and study how the framework has dynamically altered its modi operandi to achieve its purpose. I conclude that the Baltic Sea Task Force framework’s enterprise policy contains a broad and holistic perspective, conforming to definitions of a holistic epistemic community.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-112885 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Green, Elisabet |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för euroasiatiska studier |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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