Democratic Resilience in the Baltics, Vol. 1: Resilient Governance and Democratic Stability
暫譯: 波羅的海的民主韌性，第1卷：韌性治理與民主穩定

David Schultz is Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Environmental Studies, and Legal Studies at Hamline University, USA. He is also a professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas, USA, and at the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. A four-time Fulbright scholar who has taught extensively in Europe and Asia, and the winner of the Leslie A. Whittington national award for excellence in public affairs teaching, Schultz is former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education and the author of more than 45 books and 200+ articles on various aspects of American politics, election law, and the media and politics. His most recent books are Constitutional Precedent in US Supreme Court Reasoning (2022), Handbook of Election Law (2022), Presidential Swing States (2022), and Generational Politics in the United States (2024).

Rasa Smaliukiene is a Professor of Management and Public Administration at the Lithuanian Military Academy, where she teaches disaster management. She is an expert at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in a group on security and resilience; national representative at NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) in a group for Human Factors and Medicine; participant in national and international research projects. Her research interests focus on human factors in security and disaster management.

Vidmante Giedraityte is an Associate Professor and Head of the Research Group for Security Institutions Management at the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. She holds a Master of Law (2006) and a PhD in Social Sciences (Management, 2016) from Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. With over 20 years of university lecturing experience, she also coordinates the MA+ Law Competence program at Kaunas University of Technology and participates in national legislative working groups. Her main research areas include state and society resilience to national security threats, cross-sectoral cooperation in crisis management, management of security institutions, the defense innovation ecosystem, public sector change and innovation management, and the legal regulation of public administration. She contributes to a range of national and EU-funded projects on national security and defense, has authored or co-authored dozens of scientific publications, and co-edited the book Europe Alone: Small State Security without the United States (2022, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).

大衛·舒爾茨是美國哈姆萊大學政治學、環境研究和法律研究系的傑出大學教授。他同時也是美國聖托馬斯大學的法律教授，以及立陶宛喬納斯·澤馬伊提斯軍事學院的教授。作為四次富布萊特學者，他在歐洲和亞洲廣泛授課，並且是萊斯利·A·惠廷頓公共事務教學卓越國家獎的得主。舒爾茨曾擔任《公共事務教育期刊》的主編，並著有超過45本書籍和200多篇有關美國政治、選舉法以及媒體與政治各方面的文章。他最近的著作包括《美國最高法院推理中的憲法先例》（2022）、《選舉法手冊》（2022）、《總統搖擺州》（2022）和《美國的世代政治》（2024）。

拉薩·斯馬柳基耶內是立陶宛軍事學院的管理與公共行政教授，教授災害管理。她是國際標準化組織（ISO）安全與韌性小組的專家；在北約科學與技術組織（STO）擔任人因與醫學小組的國家代表；並參與國內和國際研究項目。她的研究興趣集中在人因因素在安全和災害管理中的應用。

維德曼特·吉德賴提特是立陶宛喬納斯·澤馬伊提斯軍事學院的副教授及安全機構管理研究小組的負責人。她擁有立陶宛米科拉斯·羅梅里斯大學的法律碩士學位（2006）和社會科學博士學位（管理，2016）。擁有超過20年的大學教學經驗，她還協調考那斯科技大學的MA+法律能力計劃，並參與國家立法工作小組。她的主要研究領域包括國家和社會對國家安全威脅的韌性、危機管理中的跨部門合作、安全機構的管理、防禦創新生態系統、公共部門變革與創新管理，以及公共行政的法律規範。她參與多個國家和歐盟資助的國家安全與防禦項目，著作或合著了數十篇科學出版物，並共同編輯了《歐洲孤獨：沒有美國的小國安全》（2022，Rowman & Littlefield Publishers）。