Crisis Management in a Transitional Society: The Latvian Experience

Dan Hansén & Eric Stern (2000)

This volume explores the crisis experience of the restored democratic republic of Latvia. Three chapters provide surveys of the Latvian crisis management context, focusing in turn on institutional history, the controversial citizenship issue, and emerging trends in the Latvian risk society. Five chapters consist of detailed studies of contemporary crisis cases. These are the Talsi platform tragedy of 1997; the Latvian response to Russia’s security guarantees (1997); the Latvian – Russian crisis of 1998; the Banka Baltija bankruptcy of 1995; and the management of the Daugava River Flooding of 1998. The conclusion to the volume focuses on identifying patterns of crisis development and management typical of transitional states, placing the Latvian experience in a broader comparative perspective.

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