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... Page 144 The Social Origins of Balkan Politics: Nationalism, Underdevelopment, and the Nation-State in Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, 1880–1920 Victor...

...Ivan Kostov Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 Ivan Kostov is prime minister of Bulgaria. MQ 12.2-01 Kostov 5/8/01 10:33 AM Page 1 Bulgaria on the Threshold of the New Millennium: Realized Ambitions...

...Georgi Parvanov Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Georgi Parvanov is president of the Republic of Bulgaria. MQ 13.4-01 Parvanov 10/7/02 2:45 PM Page 1 Bulgaria in a Changing World Georgi Parvanov...

...Elena Poptodorova Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Elena Poptodorova is the ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States. Bulgaria’s Migration Policy Elena Poptodorova The democratic changes in Bulgaria and the processes...

...Emilian Kavalski This essay examines the domestic logic informing the creation of Bulgaria's foreign policy. It contextualizes inferences made from Bulgaria's diplomatic attempt to “play the EU” during the visit by the Bulgarian minister of foreign affairs to Central Asia in September 2007...

... community of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria. Even before the nineteenth century, Turkey (or rather its prede- cessor state, the Ottoman Empire) and Bulgaria shared a long history. Fol- lowing the Battle of Nicopolis (now Nikopol) in 1396, Bulgaria was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire and ethnic Turks began...

..., and minority expansionism. In the post–Cold War era, European Union enlargement in the area assisted the establishment of a core of systemic stabilizers that could, under certain conditions, absorb inherent instability. Greece and Bulgaria constitute an axis providing eufunctional input to the regional...

... ten to twelve years, a close look at the small country and its immediate neighborhood reveals that the situation remains fragile. Its internal economic and demo- graphic problems are compounded by the problems FYROM has with its five neighbors: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, and Serbia...

... that Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, and Turkey belong to southeastern Europe. During the Cold War, the majority of these countries were considered part of the Eastern bloc, or simply...

... with the announcement that Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia would sign the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline deal, some thirteen years after the plan’s initial conception. Although this effort involves a host of private compa- nies, the concurrence of the three states was absolutely necessary. The pipeline will cost...

... and irrevocable. Croatia and Slovenia accepted Catholicism and in the latter part of the fourteenth century passed under the control of the Habsburg Empire. Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and adjacent lands accepted Orthodoxy and for the most part...

... stabilizing influ- ence in adjacent areas, particularly in southeastern Europe, the Black Sea region (in concert, of course, with the regional powers, primarily Rus- sia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey), and in the Arabian/Persian Gulf...

... War has been the emergence of new regions in the former communist bloc. While there is no evidence of a “Black Sea identity,” it is clear that the Black Sea is a distinct region.1 It includes the six littoral states (Bulgaria, Geor- gia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine) as well as Armenia...

... Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2  Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2008 Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), and ranks second in Bulgaria and third in Romania. With direct and indirect investments of more than $22 billion, it has generated 200,000 new jobs in thirty-five-hundred enterprises...

... 2007. 18. Legvold, 1 – 36. 19. Quoted in Stefano Bianchini, “Conclusions,” From the Adriatic to the Caucasus, 239. 20. Legvold, 1 – 36, focuses on Georgia and the Caucasus, but we also see these phenomena in Ukraine and Moldova and to some degree in Turkey and in Kosovo. While Romania and Bulgaria...

... shall respect the national identities of its Member States.” See Treaty of Amsterdam, 8. 10. Treaty of Nice and related documents are available at eur-lex.europa.eu/en/treaties/dat/12001C/ htm/12001C.html, accessed 28 January 2009. 11. Participating countries were Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada...

... and Alexander as a region that one day would become part of an enlarged Greece or Bulgaria, respectively. Like- wise, the southern Serbs demanded more territory, but they had no particular interest in claiming a Macedonian identity. Macedonianism as an indepen- dent and exclusive ethnic concept had...

... dent and constructive regional foreign policy; Turkey’s development as a functioning democracy, with an increasingly stable and Western-oriented economy and legal and social environments; Bulgaria’s and Romania’s successful transi- tions from communist to Western-oriented political and economic...

... rebuilt and revitalized, the interdependent economies of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania will be able to offer their citizens a better future. It is hoped...

... of Europe: A Transatlantic Problem (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011), 40. The lack of inte- gration is shown in recent political crises in Romania, Hungary’s turn away from democracy, and the ongoing large-­scale corruption in Bulgaria. Moises Naim characterized the latter country...