Bulgaria and Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bulgaria and Europe write by Stefanos Katsikas. This book was released on 2010. Bulgaria and Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities' offers a comprehensive analysis of Bulgaria's relationship with the European continent, focusing particularly on its accession to the EU and the aftermath.
Bulgaria and Europe
Bulgaria and Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bulgaria and Europe write by Stefanos Katsikas. This book was released on 2011. Bulgaria and Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities' offers a comprehensive analysis of Bulgaria's relationship with the European continent, focusing particularly on its accession to the EU and the aftermath.
Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe
Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe write by Stefanos Katsikas. This book was released on 2011-10-30. Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bulgaria has faced previously unimaginable pressures over the last two decades, as it struggles to adapt to a post-Communist landscape and to reform both state and society in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union, while facing the challenge of increased efforts by NATO and the EU to expand into this region. In Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe, Stefanos Katsikas sheds new light on the mechanisms and factors which have influenced the making and shaping of Bulgarian foreign policy, examining the extent to which both domestic factors and the international environment have affected its trajectory. Following the promulgation of Gorbachev's now-famous policies of glasnost and perestroika, and the fall from power of the Bulgarian Communist Party - led at the time by Todor Zhivkov - many have directly attributed Bulgaria's changes in foreign policy to the processes of democratization witnessed throughout Eastern Europe. However, although this was to some extent the case, the commonalities shared with the country's foreign policy during the Cold War era leave in question the extent to which the effects of democratization alone suffice to explain Sofia's post-communist diplomatic and strategic policies. By analysing the influencing factors of Bulgaria's foreign policy since 1989, Katsikas considers factors such as domestic policies, as well as the effects of EU and NATO efforts to expand their influence and membership. Rich in primary sources, including personal interviews with key protagonists who have dominated foreign policy-making in both communist and post-communist Bulgaria, Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe examines the shift of foreign relations not only within the context of post-Cold War democratization, but also the country's integration into wider Euro-Atlantic frameworks. It thus holds invaluable analysis for researchers of Europe's post-communist international relations, as well as those interested in the processes of democratization and those of foreign policy formation.
Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience
Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience write by Sagan A.. This book was released on 2016-07-20. Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No two markets for voluntary health insurance (VHI) are identical. All differ in some way because they are heavily shaped by the nature and performance of publicly financed health systems and by the contexts in which they have evolved. This volume contains short structured profiles of markets for VHI in 34 countries in Europe. These are drawn from European Union member states plus Armenia Iceland Georgia Norway the Russian Federation Switzerland and Ukraine. The book is aimed at policy-makers and researchers interested in knowing more about how VHI works in practice in a wide range of contexts. Each profile written by one or more local experts identifies gaps in publicly-financed health coverage describes the role VHI plays outlines the way in which the market for VHI operates summarises public policy towards VHI including major developments over time and highlights national debates and challenges. The book is part of a study on VHI in Europe prepared jointly by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. A companion volume provides an analytical overview of VHI markets across the 34 countries.
Constructing the Limits of Europe
Constructing the Limits of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing the Limits of Europe write by Rumena Filipova. This book was released on 2022-04-30. Constructing the Limits of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comparative study harks back to the revolutionary year of 1989 and asks two critical questions about the resulting reconfiguration of Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of communism: Why did Central and East European states display such divergent outcomes of their socio-political transitions? Why did three of those states—Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia—differ so starkly in terms of the pace and extent of their integration into Europe? Rumena Filipova argues that Poland’s, Bulgaria’s, and Russia’s dominating conceptions of national identity have principally shaped these countries’ foreign policy behavior after 1989. Such an explanation of these three nations’ diverging degrees of Europeanization stands in contrast to institutionalist-rationalist, interest-based accounts of democratic transition and international integration in post-communist Europe. She thereby makes a case for the need to include ideational factors into the study of International Relations and demonstrates that identities are not easily malleable and may not be as fluid as often assumed. She proposes a theoretical “middle-ground” argument that calls for “qualified post-positivism” as an integrated perspective that combines positivist and post-positivist orientations in the study of IR.
