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The object of the study is: strategy formation in Kaunas tourism organizations. The aim of the study: to ascertain specific peculiarities of strategy formation in Kaunas tourism organizations. The tasks of the study: 1. To determine strategy conception and significance for the efficiency of the enterprise activity. 2. To except characteristic strategy creation and realization processes for strategy schools. 3. To except factors determining enterprises strategy formation and except the most important for the tourism enterprises. 4. To prepare tourism enterprise strategy model. 5. To sort out what determines strategy formation specific features in travel agencies. Results: 1. Strategy is deliberate and long lasting development direction of the organization, which creates possibilities for the organization to realize its aims and is based referring to its activity spheres and forms, internal resources and position in external environment. Tourism strategy must be formed taking into consideration state and regional tourism strategy. Furthermore it is very important to choose suitable strategy for the concrete enterprise. 2. The choice of strategy schools and strategy formation depends on the environmental changes, competition, individual experience of the leader, potential of the organization, organization culture and size, government and political power. Creation of strategy and realization processes can be various, strictly structurized or chosen from a lot of alternatives. 3. Creating tourism enterprise strategy and realizing it, the biggest attention must be paid to the consumer's service quality assurance, consumer, innovations and the strategic position strengthening. 4. Prepared tourism enterprise strategy model shows mutual relations between state, regional and enterprise strategies, also determines the most important strategy formation factors for the tourism organizations. 5. The research showed that in investigated travel agencies dominate configuration school, which doesn't outline strictly rules for the ...

The object of the study is: strategy formation in Kaunas tourism organizations. The aim of the study: to ascertain specific peculiarities of strategy formation in Kaunas tourism organizations. The tasks of the study: 1. To determine strategy conception and significance for the efficiency of the enterprise activity. 2. To except characteristic strategy creation and realization processes for strategy schools. 3. To except factors determining enterprises strategy formation and except the most important for the tourism enterprises. 4. To prepare tourism enterprise strategy model. 5. To sort out what determines strategy formation specific features in travel agencies. Results: 1. Strategy is deliberate and long lasting development direction of the organization, which creates possibilities for the organization to realize its aims and is based referring to its activity spheres and forms, internal resources and position in external environment. Tourism strategy must be formed taking into consideration state and regional tourism strategy. Furthermore it is very important to choose suitable strategy for the concrete enterprise. 2. The choice of strategy schools and strategy formation depends on the environmental changes, competition, individual experience of the leader, potential of the organization, organization culture and size, government and political power. Creation of strategy and realization processes can be various, strictly structurized or chosen from a lot of alternatives. 3. Creating tourism enterprise strategy and realizing it, the biggest attention must be paid to the consumer's service quality assurance, consumer, innovations and the strategic position strengthening. 4. Prepared tourism enterprise strategy model shows mutual relations between state, regional and enterprise strategies, also determines the most important strategy formation factors for the tourism organizations. 5. The research showed that in investigated travel agencies dominate configuration school, which doesn't outline strictly rules for the agency strategy formation and realization. This allows the heads of the travel agencies to create and realize strategies, not to keep to the strict rules, but to act according to tourism business specific, paying the biggest attention to the maximization of the consumers needs requirements.

The object of the study is: strategy formation in Kaunas tourism organizations. The aim of the study: to ascertain specific peculiarities of strategy formation in Kaunas tourism organizations. The tasks of the study: 1. To determine strategy conception and significance for the efficiency of the enterprise activity. 2. To except characteristic strategy creation and realization processes for strategy schools. 3. To except factors determining enterprises strategy formation and except the most important for the tourism enterprises. 4. To prepare tourism enterprise strategy model. 5. To sort out what determines strategy formation specific features in travel agencies. Results: 1. Strategy is deliberate and long lasting development direction of the organization, which creates possibilities for the organization to realize its aims and is based referring to its activity spheres and forms, internal resources and position in external environment. Tourism strategy must be formed taking into consideration state and regional tourism strategy. Furthermore it is very important to choose suitable strategy for the concrete enterprise. 2. The choice of strategy schools and strategy formation depends on the environmental changes, competition, individual experience of the leader, potential of the organization, organization culture and size, government and political power. Creation of strategy and realization processes can be various, strictly structurized or chosen from a lot of alternatives. 3. Creating tourism enterprise strategy and realizing it, the biggest attention must be paid to the consumer's service quality assurance, consumer, innovations and the strategic position strengthening. 4. Prepared tourism enterprise strategy model shows mutual relations between state, regional and enterprise strategies, also determines the most important strategy formation factors for the tourism organizations. 5. The research showed that in investigated travel agencies dominate configuration school, which doesn't outline strictly rules for the agency strategy formation and realization. This allows the heads of the travel agencies to create and realize strategies, not to keep to the strict rules, but to act according to tourism business specific, paying the biggest attention to the maximization of the consumers needs requirements.

Global challenges have been affecting the world constantly. Thus there are pressures to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. State in this context is not an exception. It can be argued that the states have been experiencing far greater pressures to find the best solutions to amortize global pressure. One of the most favorable way to do that, turn to regional organizations. To date, the most successful regional organization is considered to be the European Union, followed by ASEAN. However, the research comparing these two organizations is not much on the fact that there are well-established opinions, that EU n=1 case and a large part of the regional classic theories originate from the EU intellectual heritage. The new regionalism approach throw a challenge to claim that the EU can be compared and should be compared, because it is the only one way to understand the processes of regional mechanisms.The analysis of these two regional organizations regionalization processes shift have shoved that. EU and ASEAN regionalization processes change is almost the same at their start, dominates security issues. They are totally different in their functioning, the EU followed hard institutionalization and promotion of supranational institutions. ASEAN have avoided of any form of institutionalization and promoted the informality. Only partially comparable influence to Member States and third countries where EU has acquired a more solid experience. It was also discovered that non-state actors have had different roles. The EU institutions have provided basis for non-state actors to thrive on contrary in ASEAN non-state actors produced such platform that later has been supported by officials.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the role of Šiauliai City Municipality in the regional governance. The regional governance is a relatively new concept that is also significant due to the fact that the population of municipalities have easier access to a local government and, thus, a greater chance to be heard. Problems related to a region are better solved when a person is able to contact the interested parties and receive direct aid. The regional governance and institutions related to the regional governance are indisputably regulated by legislation. It is especially important to identify fundamental problems in the regional governance and possible solutions to them. On the regional level, the interested parties that play the more prominent role are the local and the central government with business and other organizations, including various non-governmental ones, also playing important role. The analysis in this thesis is divided into two parts, in order to achieve the results. The first part contains the analysis of decisions made by Šiauliai Regional Development Council and their connection to the regional governance and Šiauliai region. The analysis shows that the Municipality is actively engaged in the decision-making process by Regional Development Council by offering solutions, in order to ensure that important issues related to the region are discussed. The second part concerns the research whose results confirm the conclusions made from the analysis of Regional Development Council documents that Šiauliai City Municipality is actively involved in the regional governance and plays a significant role in both the issue-raising and the decision-making process. In addition, attention is paid to the cooperation between the interested parties and Šiauliai City Municipality with the results of the interview showing the lack of purposeful cooperation and communication between both sides, the lack of willingness on the part of the Municipality to cooperate and the lack of involvement of the interested parties in the activities of the Municipality.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the role of Šiauliai City Municipality in the regional governance. The regional governance is a relatively new concept that is also significant due to the fact that the population of municipalities have easier access to a local government and, thus, a greater chance to be heard. Problems related to a region are better solved when a person is able to contact the interested parties and receive direct aid. The regional governance and institutions related to the regional governance are indisputably regulated by legislation. It is especially important to identify fundamental problems in the regional governance and possible solutions to them. On the regional level, the interested parties that play the more prominent role are the local and the central government with business and other organizations, including various non-governmental ones, also playing important role. The analysis in this thesis is divided into two parts, in order to achieve the results. The first part contains the analysis of decisions made by Šiauliai Regional Development Council and their connection to the regional governance and Šiauliai region. The analysis shows that the Municipality is actively engaged in the decision-making process by Regional Development Council by offering solutions, in order to ensure that important issues related to the region are discussed. The second part concerns the research whose results confirm the conclusions made from the analysis of Regional Development Council documents that Šiauliai City Municipality is actively involved in the regional governance and plays a significant role in both the issue-raising and the decision-making process. In addition, attention is paid to the cooperation between the interested parties and Šiauliai City Municipality with the results of the interview showing the lack of purposeful cooperation and communication between both sides, the lack of willingness on the part of the Municipality to cooperate and the lack of involvement of the interested parties in the activities of the Municipality.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the role of Šiauliai City Municipality in the regional governance. The regional governance is a relatively new concept that is also significant due to the fact that the population of municipalities have easier access to a local government and, thus, a greater chance to be heard. Problems related to a region are better solved when a person is able to contact the interested parties and receive direct aid. The regional governance and institutions related to the regional governance are indisputably regulated by legislation. It is especially important to identify fundamental problems in the regional governance and possible solutions to them. On the regional level, the interested parties that play the more prominent role are the local and the central government with business and other organizations, including various non-governmental ones, also playing important role. The analysis in this thesis is divided into two parts, in order to achieve the results. The first part contains the analysis of decisions made by Šiauliai Regional Development Council and their connection to the regional governance and Šiauliai region. The analysis shows that the Municipality is actively engaged in the decision-making process by Regional Development Council by offering solutions, in order to ensure that important issues related to the region are discussed. The second part concerns the research whose results confirm the conclusions made from the analysis of Regional Development Council documents that Šiauliai City Municipality is actively involved in the regional governance and plays a significant role in both the issue-raising and the decision-making process. In addition, attention is paid to the cooperation between the interested parties and Šiauliai City Municipality with the results of the interview showing the lack of purposeful cooperation and communication between both sides, the lack of willingness on the part of the Municipality to cooperate and the lack of involvement of the interested parties in the activities of the Municipality.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the role of Šiauliai City Municipality in the regional governance. The regional governance is a relatively new concept that is also significant due to the fact that the population of municipalities have easier access to a local government and, thus, a greater chance to be heard. Problems related to a region are better solved when a person is able to contact the interested parties and receive direct aid. The regional governance and institutions related to the regional governance are indisputably regulated by legislation. It is especially important to identify fundamental problems in the regional governance and possible solutions to them. On the regional level, the interested parties that play the more prominent role are the local and the central government with business and other organizations, including various non-governmental ones, also playing important role. The analysis in this thesis is divided into two parts, in order to achieve the results. The first part contains the analysis of decisions made by Šiauliai Regional Development Council and their connection to the regional governance and Šiauliai region. The analysis shows that the Municipality is actively engaged in the decision-making process by Regional Development Council by offering solutions, in order to ensure that important issues related to the region are discussed. The second part concerns the research whose results confirm the conclusions made from the analysis of Regional Development Council documents that Šiauliai City Municipality is actively involved in the regional governance and plays a significant role in both the issue-raising and the decision-making process. In addition, attention is paid to the cooperation between the interested parties and Šiauliai City Municipality with the results of the interview showing the lack of purposeful cooperation and communication between both sides, the lack of willingness on the part of the Municipality to cooperate and the lack of involvement of the interested parties in the activities of the Municipality.

Ramūnas Keršys (Master's paper advisor Doc. Jolita Kašalynienė). Youth participation in bringing out youth's politics. Master paper. V.: VU Department of Social Work, 2009, 87 p. SUMMARY YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN BRINGING OUT REGIONAL YOUTH'S POLITICS Regional youth politics' formation and accomplishing is attached to institutions of local administration. Local administration's youth politics' efficiency and quality depends on dialogue's assurance between institutions of local administration and young people, when discussing general questions that are related to youth. The quality of youth politics' bringing out process is based in youth politics foundation's statutes which strengthen in parity, subsidiary, interdepartmental coordination, participation, information, self-government, voluntariness, communication and collaboration principles. Investigation problem - non effective youth politics' formation and bringing out system's adaptation in local administrations, when ensuring youth's participation in the process of making decisions in today's problems. The main purpose in this master: find out local administration politic's formation and bringing out system's functionation when drawing in young people into the process of making decisions in today's problems. Investigation object - youth's participation while bringing out regional youth's politics. The investigation included 32 local administration's systems, which form and bring out youth's politics. During the investigation youth politics' principles were analyzed in local administrations, youth local administrations' council activity matter's productivity, youth matter coordination and youth's local administration council matter member opinions about youth's participation in settled things. The main investigation's method - completing a questionnaire. Data was organized in descriptive statistic's method. While trying to attain a bigger objectivity, data was analyzed in distributing local administration by their size, primary sources were checked. When investigation was finished, it was clear, that hypothesis is right, that local administration's youth's politic's system doesn't ensure active youth's participation in making decisions about general problems, that involve the young ones. As established, that that predetermines many factors: too narrow legal local administration's youth's matters' council's formation reglamentation, youth's participation's restriction in legal bases, weak youth's organization potential in local administrations and also their representational power, lack of youth's politics' system information, youth's migration, lack of motivation and competition to participate, regional youth's organization council's absence or in activance and other. As established, that youth's participation's activity is based on young man's self motivation. It is orientated more into recognition, self competition acquisition, becoming stronger in social surroundings than youth's interest's representation. As shown by investigation, local administration's institutions don't evaluate these aspects as much as needed. These insights let evaluate more effective and plan jobs to make youth's politics' system better, so youth could participate even more.

Ramūnas Keršys (Master's paper advisor Doc. Jolita Kašalynienė). Youth participation in bringing out youth's politics. Master paper. V.: VU Department of Social Work, 2009, 87 p. SUMMARY YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN BRINGING OUT REGIONAL YOUTH'S POLITICS Regional youth politics' formation and accomplishing is attached to institutions of local administration. Local administration's youth politics' efficiency and quality depends on dialogue's assurance between institutions of local administration and young people, when discussing general questions that are related to youth. The quality of youth politics' bringing out process is based in youth politics foundation's statutes which strengthen in parity, subsidiary, interdepartmental coordination, participation, information, self-government, voluntariness, communication and collaboration principles. Investigation problem - non effective youth politics' formation and bringing out system's adaptation in local administrations, when ensuring youth's participation in the process of making decisions in today's problems. The main purpose in this master: find out local administration politic's formation and bringing out system's functionation when drawing in young people into the process of making decisions in today's problems. Investigation object - youth's participation while bringing out regional youth's politics. The investigation included 32 local administration's systems, which form and bring out youth's politics. During the investigation youth politics' principles were analyzed in local administrations, youth local administrations' council activity matter's productivity, youth matter coordination and youth's local administration council matter member opinions about youth's participation in settled things. The main investigation's method - completing a questionnaire. Data was organized in descriptive statistic's method. While trying to attain a bigger objectivity, data was analyzed in distributing local administration by their size, primary sources were checked. When investigation was finished, it was clear, that hypothesis is right, that local administration's youth's politic's system doesn't ensure active youth's participation in making decisions about general problems, that involve the young ones. As established, that that predetermines many factors: too narrow legal local administration's youth's matters' council's formation reglamentation, youth's participation's restriction in legal bases, weak youth's organization potential in local administrations and also their representational power, lack of youth's politics' system information, youth's migration, lack of motivation and competition to participate, regional youth's organization council's absence or in activance and other. As established, that youth's participation's activity is based on young man's self motivation. It is orientated more into recognition, self competition acquisition, becoming stronger in social surroundings than youth's interest's representation. As shown by investigation, local administration's institutions don't evaluate these aspects as much as needed. These insights let evaluate more effective and plan jobs to make youth's politics' system better, so youth could participate even more.

Summary Induced by information technologies, innovations and developing new social structures- globalization process increase every day. Information flows connects the world, starts to develop new mutual interests between countries. Many relevant national questions in one or another country become global. Today those problems slip from national power and so environmental, security, education, poverty questions becomes important for everyone. Actually countries start to collaborate by trying to stop or find certain decisions, how growing global problems could be controlled. That kind of collaboration illustrates not only development of foreign countries or increase of international relations, but also formation of international organizations. Although the authority institutions of all the highest international organizations plans the work politics, accepts certain international standards and member countries have to follow them and still every country that belongs to any international organization, can pursue national and global interest accomplishment. Even small politically and economically week countries can greatly contribute to solutions of global problems. Actually Lithuania is also that kind of country. Member of international organizations, this country pursue national and global goals. These goals can be accomplished by accurately planning actions, researching constantly changing environment and creating effective communication strategies. By applying actions and communication strategies of international organizations in Lithuania can be accomplished global goals of organization which is the object of this work. Selected and analyzed UNESCO and UNDP organizations, which are related with similar goals and mission. Active in Lithuania UNESCO and UNDP various ways reach for set tasks. In this work methods and communicative behavior of the organization will be analyzed. The goal of this work is to analyze in what ways global problems are solved in local context, what communication strategies are applied to accomplish international regional and local projects. Research revealed particular communicative strategies of organizations, that is to say information about the organization increase, society informative development also news and information exchange. Used analysis of secondary sources and qualitative interview methods gave the opportunity to analyze organizations more widely and closely. Activity reports showed specific communicative strategies accomplishment stages, steps, by which national and global goals of all international organizations are achieved. Interview method reveled, in what communication actions those steps are taken. After the research the presumption was proved, that important decisions are taken by using two – way flow of the information, when information spreads from member countries to headquarters of the organization, where structured information gets back to member countries in the form of various regulations, recommendations and conventions.

Summary Induced by information technologies, innovations and developing new social structures- globalization process increase every day. Information flows connects the world, starts to develop new mutual interests between countries. Many relevant national questions in one or another country become global. Today those problems slip from national power and so environmental, security, education, poverty questions becomes important for everyone. Actually countries start to collaborate by trying to stop or find certain decisions, how growing global problems could be controlled. That kind of collaboration illustrates not only development of foreign countries or increase of international relations, but also formation of international organizations. Although the authority institutions of all the highest international organizations plans the work politics, accepts certain international standards and member countries have to follow them and still every country that belongs to any international organization, can pursue national and global interest accomplishment. Even small politically and economically week countries can greatly contribute to solutions of global problems. Actually Lithuania is also that kind of country. Member of international organizations, this country pursue national and global goals. These goals can be accomplished by accurately planning actions, researching constantly changing environment and creating effective communication strategies. By applying actions and communication strategies of international organizations in Lithuania can be accomplished global goals of organization which is the object of this work. Selected and analyzed UNESCO and UNDP organizations, which are related with similar goals and mission. Active in Lithuania UNESCO and UNDP various ways reach for set tasks. In this work methods and communicative behavior of the organization will be analyzed. The goal of this work is to analyze in what ways global problems are solved in local context, what communication strategies are applied to accomplish international regional and local projects. Research revealed particular communicative strategies of organizations, that is to say information about the organization increase, society informative development also news and information exchange. Used analysis of secondary sources and qualitative interview methods gave the opportunity to analyze organizations more widely and closely. Activity reports showed specific communicative strategies accomplishment stages, steps, by which national and global goals of all international organizations are achieved. Interview method reveled, in what communication actions those steps are taken. After the research the presumption was proved, that important decisions are taken by using two – way flow of the information, when information spreads from member countries to headquarters of the organization, where structured information gets back to member countries in the form of various regulations, recommendations and conventions.

Summary Induced by information technologies, innovations and developing new social structures- globalization process increase every day. Information flows connects the world, starts to develop new mutual interests between countries. Many relevant national questions in one or another country become global. Today those problems slip from national power and so environmental, security, education, poverty questions becomes important for everyone. Actually countries start to collaborate by trying to stop or find certain decisions, how growing global problems could be controlled. That kind of collaboration illustrates not only development of foreign countries or increase of international relations, but also formation of international organizations. Although the authority institutions of all the highest international organizations plans the work politics, accepts certain international standards and member countries have to follow them and still every country that belongs to any international organization, can pursue national and global interest accomplishment. Even small politically and economically week countries can greatly contribute to solutions of global problems. Actually Lithuania is also that kind of country. Member of international organizations, this country pursue national and global goals. These goals can be accomplished by accurately planning actions, researching constantly changing environment and creating effective communication strategies. By applying actions and communication strategies of international organizations in Lithuania can be accomplished global goals of organization which is the object of this work. Selected and analyzed UNESCO and UNDP organizations, which are related with similar goals and mission. Active in Lithuania UNESCO and UNDP various ways reach for set tasks. In this work methods and communicative behavior of the organization will be analyzed. The goal of this work is to analyze in what ways global problems are solved in local context, what communication strategies are applied to accomplish international regional and local projects. Research revealed particular communicative strategies of organizations, that is to say information about the organization increase, society informative development also news and information exchange. Used analysis of secondary sources and qualitative interview methods gave the opportunity to analyze organizations more widely and closely. Activity reports showed specific communicative strategies accomplishment stages, steps, by which national and global goals of all international organizations are achieved. Interview method reveled, in what communication actions those steps are taken. After the research the presumption was proved, that important decisions are taken by using two – way flow of the information, when information spreads from member countries to headquarters of the organization, where structured information gets back to member countries in the form of various regulations, recommendations and conventions.

In the thesis transformation of the international organizations will be analyzed. Nation-state foreign policy approach will be applied to the analysis, because international organizations are a peculiar kind of political systems. This leads to the general key research question: how and why do international organizations change? The methodological purpose of the thesis is too show the limits of existing scholarship on international organizations, because they neglect the external factors behind actual change within international organizations. The organizations NATO and the UN were chosen as cases. The UN from an international law point of view is undeniably the most important IO and the only truly system-wide IO; whereas NATO is seen by many as simply the strongest IO due to its combined military strength. In the thesis it will be argued that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 served as an external shock and had an empirical effect on NATO and the UN. The main empirical aim of the analysis is to explore 9/11 effect upon two cases of IOs, namely the UN and NATO, in an attempt to gain better understanding of their transformation processes. The intention is also to explore the further effect of this change upon the security policy situation of small states. The research question of the thesis: how and why were the United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization affected by the events of 9/11? Therefore the following tasks are set in the analysis: 1. to construct an approach to the study of change within international organizations applying nation-state foreign policy approach; 2. to analyse the effect of the end of the Cold War upon NATO and the UN; 3. to elaborate on the UN and NATO policy change following to 9/11 terrorist attacks upon the United States and evaluate the strength of NATO and the UN in terms of their commonality, specificity and autonomy; 4. to explore the further effect of the change in the UN and NATO upon the security policy situation of small states. Analysis confirmed that paradigmatic and radical changes in IOs are due to the external dynamics: external shocks, that is. The analysis showed that the influence of the external shocks significantly depends on how it challenges the original purpose and activities of the organizations. Applying Charles Hermann's (1990) external shock framework showed that the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 had bigger impact on NATO than the UN. However, the UN experienced minor adjustment as it had to deal with slight program (after the Cold War) and goal (after 9/11) changes. As predicted, the shift from regional issues to global area is not effects small countries negatively. The de-regionalization of both IOs cases makes small member states feel left behind and less solidarity. Although Denmark and Lithuania declare full support to the NATO and UN activities and understand that changes are necessary for the organizations, they are deeply concerned about the global shift of the organizations as the change effects their security policy. In the analysis the comparative and descriptive analytical method is being used.

In the thesis transformation of the international organizations will be analyzed. Nation-state foreign policy approach will be applied to the analysis, because international organizations are a peculiar kind of political systems. This leads to the general key research question: how and why do international organizations change? The methodological purpose of the thesis is too show the limits of existing scholarship on international organizations, because they neglect the external factors behind actual change within international organizations. The organizations NATO and the UN were chosen as cases. The UN from an international law point of view is undeniably the most important IO and the only truly system-wide IO; whereas NATO is seen by many as simply the strongest IO due to its combined military strength. In the thesis it will be argued that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 served as an external shock and had an empirical effect on NATO and the UN. The main empirical aim of the analysis is to explore 9/11 effect upon two cases of IOs, namely the UN and NATO, in an attempt to gain better understanding of their transformation processes. The intention is also to explore the further effect of this change upon the security policy situation of small states. The research question of the thesis: how and why were the United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization affected by the events of 9/11? Therefore the following tasks are set in the analysis: 1. to construct an approach to the study of change within international organizations applying nation-state foreign policy approach; 2. to analyse the effect of the end of the Cold War upon NATO and the UN; 3. to elaborate on the UN and NATO policy change following to 9/11 terrorist attacks upon the United States and evaluate the strength of NATO and the UN in terms of their commonality, specificity and autonomy; 4. to explore the further effect of the change in the UN and NATO upon the security policy situation of small states. Analysis confirmed that paradigmatic and radical changes in IOs are due to the external dynamics: external shocks, that is. The analysis showed that the influence of the external shocks significantly depends on how it challenges the original purpose and activities of the organizations. Applying Charles Hermann's (1990) external shock framework showed that the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 had bigger impact on NATO than the UN. However, the UN experienced minor adjustment as it had to deal with slight program (after the Cold War) and goal (after 9/11) changes. As predicted, the shift from regional issues to global area is not effects small countries negatively. The de-regionalization of both IOs cases makes small member states feel left behind and less solidarity. Although Denmark and Lithuania declare full support to the NATO and UN activities and understand that changes are necessary for the organizations, they are deeply concerned about the global shift of the organizations as the change effects their security policy. In the analysis the comparative and descriptive analytical method is being used.