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Концепциите за българската геополитическа преориентация на Запад след 1989 г.
The concepts of the Bulgarian Geopolitical reorientation to the West after 1989

Author(s): Irina Yakimova
Subject(s): History, Diplomatic history, Economic history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Институт за исторически изследвания - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Bulgaria; USSR; COMECON; WTO; EU; NATO; Eastern bloc; velvet revolutions; foreign policy reorientation; geopolitics; new world order;

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the ideological preconditions and traces the development of the process of Bulgarian “opening” to the West in the 1990s. The emphasis on the “western” spatial dimension in the country’s foreign policy after the change of power on November 10, 1989 is purposeful and provoked by the natural logic of historical analysis. In her attempt to outline the ideological parameters of this process, the author places the problem in a broader international context. This has allowed her to look from an unusual angle at known but still poorly studied facts and events of political life in post-socialist Bulgaria, as the country sought its new worthy place in the dynamically changing world order after the end of the inter-bloc confrontation.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 87-141
  • Page Count: 55
  • Language: Bulgarian