Bulgaria and Europe
Subtitle: shifting identities
By: edited by Stefanos Katsikas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781843318460; 9781843318286
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Intellectual life; Bulgarian National characteristics; Social policy; Relations; Social change; Bulgarian Foreign public opinion; Nationalism; History
Description: '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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Europeanization of Bulgarian society : a long-lasting political project / Stefanos Katsikas and Peter Siani-Davies; title: Institution-building, political culture, and identity in Bulgaria : the challenge of "Europeanization" / Wolfgang Höpken; title: Appropriations of Bulgarian literature in the West : from Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Ionkov / Galin Tihanov; title: Communism and Cold War in Bulgaria : the absence of Europe? / Marietta Stankova; title: Bulgarian Turks during the transition period / Iskra Baeva and Evgenia Kalinova; title: Women's identity and social policy in Bulgaria before and after 1989 / Tatyana Kotzeva; title: Legal status and migrant economic performance : the case of Bulgarians in Spain and Greece / Eugenia Markova; title: Bulgaria's path to EU membership; title: and beyond / Dimitar Bechev; title: Accession to the Euro-Atlantic institutions : effects on Bulgaria's Balkan policy(-ies) / Stefanos Katsikas; title: Mirroring gazes : Europe, nationalism, and change in the field of Bulgarian art and culture / Elitza Ranova; title: The emergence of regional policy in Bulgaria and the role of the EU / Vassilis Monastiriotis; title: Epilogue / Stefanos Katsikas.