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Security Through Integration: Bulgaria’s Long Road to Foreign Policy Consensus
Security Through Integration: Bulgaria’s Long Road to Foreign Policy Consensus

Author(s): Blagovest Tashev
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Bulgaria’s transition; Bulgaria: Seeking security after the end of communism; Change of course after 1997; The government of Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha: Staying the course;

Summary/Abstract: After the collapse of communism, new strategic thinking in Bulgaria has slowly emerged. The relatively sluggish pace of the process is reflected in the late beginnings of real security and defense reform. Only in the last four years have the Bulgarian political elite reached a basic consensus on the Euro-Atlantic direction of Bulgarian foreign policy. The article provides an overview of the slowly emerging political consensus on Bulgaria’s security policy and the evolution of national strategic thinking. It also highlights some of the future challenges to the country’s search for security in the context of integration in the Euro-Atlantic community.

  • Issue Year: V/2004
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 72-86
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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