• The Impact of Citizen Participation on Public Sentiments during Crises: Comparative Study of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 

  Giedraitytė, Vidmantė; Smaliukienė, Rasa; Vedlūga, Tomas (MDPI, 2022-12-18)

  Citizen participation is identified as one of the essential tools of modern public governance in developing sustainable cities and communities. This is especially important during crises. This analysis revisits the debate ...
• Personal Growth under Stress: Mediating Effects of Unit Cohesion and Leadership during Mandatory Military Training 

  Bekešienė, Svajonė; Smaliukienė, Rasa (MDPI, 2022-08-20)

  This study explores the phenomena of personal growth under stress and investigates the mediating effect of leadership and four elements of group cohesion (social, task, norm, and psychological). Data were collected at the ...
• Three-Faceted Approach to Perceived Stress: A Longitudinal Study of Stress Hormones, Personality, and Group Cohesion in the Real-Life Setting of Compulsory Basic Military Training 

  Bekešienė, Svajonė; Smaliukienė, Rasa; Vaičaitienė, Ramutė; Mažeikienė, Asta; Larsson, Gerry; Karčiauskaitė, Dovilė; Mazgelytė, Eglė (MDPI, 2022-01-18)

  Compulsory basic military training is characterized not only by being challenging but also by being stressful. Assuming a high frequency of perceived stress events as a negative outcome of training, this article provides ...
• The Role of Military Leadership in Shaping Innovative Personnel Behaviour: The Case of the Lithuanian Armed Forces 

  Šimanauskienė, Viktorija; Giedraitytė, Vidmantė; Navickienė, Olga (MDPI, 2021-08-18)

  Innovation is important for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including those related to peace and justice, as well as strengthening defence and security institutions. In view of innovation and the ...
• Issues of state and national security: Religiously inspired terrorism in the Baltic States: internal and external factors 

  Kriviņš, Anatolijs; Teivāns-Treinovskis, Jānis; Tumalavičius, Vladas (2021)

  Global terrorism has become one of the most serious threats to the security in the world today. The number of suspects arrested for religiously inspired terrorism in the EU Member States increased approximately five-fold ...

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