BULGARIAN EUROPEAN COMMUNITY STUDIES ASSOCIATION

SECURITY THROUGH PARTNERSHIP AND INTEGRATION

Bulgaria, NATO and the European Security Architecture

(edited by Valeri Ratchev)

Sofia, 1996

Contents

Introduction

VALERI RATCHEV, colonel, Deputy Director of the National Security Research Centre at the Ministry for Defence

Tendencies in the geopolitical restructuring of Europe and the foreign-policy choice of Bulgaria

DINKO DINKOV, lecturer in the International Relations Department at the University for National and World Economy, counselor at the Council of Ministers and secretary of the Governmental committee on UN sanctions

Factors and requirements for the development of the armed forces

KIRIL VASILEV, colonel, officer from the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army

STANISLAV SERAFIMOV, lieutenant-colonel, PhD in military science, officer from the General Staff of the Bulgarian Army

Psychological aspects of security

ILIA PEEV, captain, PhD in psychology, senior lecturer in the Humanities Departments at the Naval Academy “Nikola Vaptsarov”, associate professor at the Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”

Democratic governance of defence – the new formula in civil-military relations

NIKOLAI SLATINSKI, PhD in mathematics, Member of Parliament in the 7^th Grand National Assembly and in the 36^th Ordinary National Assembly and Chairman of the National Security Committee in the latter, Executive Director of the “Democracy and Security” Foundation

Regional integration: obstacle or prerequisite for full membership?

ANDREI IVANOV, PhD in economics, Programme Director in the Centre for the Study of Democracy

Realism and pragmatism in Bulgaria’s integration policy vis-à-vis the European Union

DIMITAR GANTCHEV, Deputy Head of the European Integration Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

NATO’s enlargement – possible scenarios

ATANAS GOTCHEV, PhD in economics, lecturer in the International Relations Department at the University for National and World Economy

LORA GOTCHEVA, student in Political Science at the Holywook College, Massachussets, USA

Partnership with NATO – a necessary precondition for Bulgaria’s integration in European structures

SVETOZAR TSONKOV, PhD in history and senior research fellow, senior expert at the Ministry for Defence

Motivation aspects of Bulgaria’s policy for accession to NATO

VALERI RATCHEV

Conclusion

VALERI RATCHEV

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