Title: Bulgaria and Europe : shifting identities /
Authors: Katsikas, Stefanos
Year: 2010
Subjects: National characteristics, Bulgarian.; Political culture Bulgaria History.; Nationalism Bulgaria History.; Social change Bulgaria History.; Bulgaria Politics and government; Bulgaria Relations Europe.; Europe Relations Bulgaria.; Europe Foreign public opinion, Bulgarian.; Bulgaria Intellectual life.; Bulgaria Social policy.
Abstract: 'Bulgaria and Europe' offers an analysis of Bulgaria's relationship with the European continent. It examines how Bulgarian historiography and literature over the centuries have created differing conceptions of Europe and, in the process, shaped the country's own shifting identity.
Contents: The Europeanization of Bulgarian society : a long-lasting political project / Stefanos Katsikas and Peter Siani-Davies -- Institution-building, political culture, and identity in Bulgaria : the challenge of "Europeanization" / Wolfgang Höpken -- Appropriations of Bulgarian literature in the West : from Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Ionkov / Galin Tihanov -- Communism and Cold War in Bulgaria : the absence of Europe? / Marietta Stankova -- Bulgarian Turks during the transition period / Iskra Baeva and Evgenia Kalinova -- Women's identity and social policy in Bulgaria before and after 1989 / Tatyana Kotzeva -- Legal status and migrant economic performance : the case of Bulgarians in Spain and Greece / Eugenia Markova -- Bulgaria's path to EU membership--and beyond / Dimitar Bechev -- Accession to the Euro-Atlantic institutions : effects on Bulgaria's Balkan policy(-ies) / Stefanos Katsikas -- Mirroring gazes : Europe, nationalism, and change in the field of Bulgarian art and culture / Elitza Ranova -- The emergence of regional policy in Bulgaria and the role of the EU / Vassilis Monastiriotis -- Epilogue / Stefanos Katsikas.