Sharing the Baltic Experience with Eastern Partnership Countries

This paper proposes to study the case of exportation of norms (practices and know-how) by the Baltic States towards Eastern Europe. Following an interdisciplinary approach intersecting the mechanisms of Policy Transfert Studies (PTS) and the historical and comparative approach, it attempts to explain the reasons behind the Baltic States’ involvement in the East, the processes and the methods of implementation, the role of actors-donors as well as their interaction with their local partners. Through three study cases of expertise, we will draw some parallels with the Nordics’ assistance towards the Baltics (1990) to see how the Nordic model of assistance serves as an inspiration for the Baltic States’ action today.