BULGARIA’S GEOPOLITICAL EXPOSURE TO A CHANGED SECURITY ENVIRONMENT: THE STRENGTHS AND VULNERABILITIES OF A DIFFERENT “BORDER COUNTRY”
Journal: Knowledge International Journal
Year: 2019

Bulgaria is a country with unique geographical position as the only EU-member Black Sea country that shares a terrestrial border with the Muslim World. In the recent few years such a vicinity to two of the regional powers – Russia and Turkey, which normally is considered an advantage, turned into a challenge following Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea, on the one hand, and the Middle Eastern wars, that brought to Europe the twin dangers of Islamist terror and mass immigration, on the other. The art