The analysis of a public administration crisis situation

Abstract

This paper fits into the ex-post migration crisis of 2015-16 dialogue and offers added value through its complex transboundary perspective while bringing in the national perspective of a transboundary crisis. After the largest migration flow, lacking supranational coordination and governance, Slovenia’s coping strategy was oriented towards logistical mechanisms to keep up the pressure and move the flow forward. Given the scale of the crisis, such a setting lacked a rapid response at the local level, and the high dimensionality and nonlinear interactions caused pink noise. Using a case study method, the paper argues that crisis management moved backwards and had a decoupled structure. It also calls for a more inclusive multi-level crisis management structure and investment in existing international organizations. Indeed, if the crisis interactions had taken place globally, the crisis would be less dimensional and more linear, thus avoiding pink noise.

Higher Education Challenges: Developing Skills to Address Contemporary Economic and Sustainability Issues

“…The most significant feature of the obtained results is multi-disciplinarity, which resonates with the often discussed role of higher education in addressing the wicked problems of the 21st century, including the sustainable development, innovation, and production of human capital for the contemporary economy and society [37][38][39]. A multidisciplinary approach to research and transboundary education is required to deal with these challenges to the modern society [40], which is especially valuable when dealing with crises, such as those encountered in the last five years in the EU-more specifically, with the massive inflow of migrants [41], COVID-related economic challenges [42], and other relevant issues. The multi-disciplinarity of the analyzed research topics is illustrated by Table 2.…”