Milestones and undercurrents in the course of the evolution of bulgarian studies on international security after 1989

Abstract

This review follows three decades of the Bulgarian academic debate on international security. It analyzes the run-up to Bulgaria’s U-turn from bloc solidarity to Euro-Atlantic integration dynamics and studies the aftermath of the persistently inactive stance towards global commitments. It verifies three assumptions in conjunction with three structural and temporal units of the research: during the 1990s Bulgarian epistemic community has shifted the paradigm to inclusion and adaptation within the complex interdependence and has been making attempts to abstain from being stereotyped with its turbulent neighborhood; through-out the 2000s Bulgarian scholars have become more self-reflective and sensitive to the Europeanization perspective and more critical towards sporadic failures to be a loyal ally and an accountable member-state; the 2010s saw Bulgarian academia and practitioners becoming a little bit reticent as to the deepening perspectives in international security studies although they still actively contribute to broadening the debate with new issues.

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