ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits methodological issues related to the interpretation of interview data and the wider questions. It discusses the interview data to interpretation, comparing interview statements with Rubin and Rubin's mediation forms. The 'dedicated medical worker' is a category into which we can place the vast majority of our interviewees. Combining the 'World Health Organization inspiration' with the general interest in international 'region building' - and the need to raise fresh issues at the upcoming Council of the Baltic Sea States summit - the Task Force on Communicable Disease Control in the Baltic Sea Region was conceived. The chapter argues that the region-building efforts under the Task Force have been quite successful. It also argues that what has taken place inside the eastern part of the region is actually as important as what has been achieved at the level of East-West relations. The Task Force's management arrangement is ambitious, and, to outside observers, may seem 'a bit virtual'.
