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   COLLEGE OF EUROPE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN BULGARIA







 

“ARMY AND CIVIL SOCIETY” FOUNDATION


COLLEGE OF EUROPE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN BULGARIA
(ABSKEB)


THE EUROPEAN SECURITY
AND DEFENCE POLICY
AND THE BULGARIAN ARMY

edited by
PLAMEN DIMITROV and KRASSIMIR NIKOLOV

Sofia, 2005

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE EUROPEAN UNION – IDEA AND SYSTEM, MARKET AND NEGOTIATING TABLE
The European Union as an idea
The European Union as a system
The European Union as a market
The European Union as a negotiating table
Krassimir Nikolov

FOREIGN POLICY, SECURITY AND DEFENCE AS EUROPEAN UNION PRIORITIES
The long road to the common security policy of the European Union
The European Security and Defence Policy
Will the European Union become a global military power?
Marin Lessenski

THE BALKAN DEBUT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A MILITARY POWER
Yordan Baev, Plamen Dimitrov

SECURITY STRATEGIES AND CONCEPTS IN THE EURO-ATLANTIC AREA
NATO’s strategic concept
The security strategy of the USA
The European security strategy
Angel Bandjov

BULGARIA’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY
Ivan Milanov

About the Foundation “Army and Civil Society”

About the College of Europe Alumni Association in Bulgaria (ABSKEB)

Abbreviations

Main dates
². Creation of the European Communities
²². Reforms in the founding treaties
²²². Geographic expansion of the European Union
²V. Foreign policy, security and defence

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Yordan BAEV

doctor in history, associate professor in modern history, senior research fellow in military and political aspects of security, “National Security and Defence” Faculty at the “Georgi Rakovski” Military Academy – Sofia

Angel BANDJOV

graduate in “International Relations” from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and master in European integration at the College of Europe – Bruges, Belgium; member of the College of Europe Alumni Association in Bulgaria (ABSKEB)

Plamen DIMITROV

master in contemporary history from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, journalist at the international department of the “Balgarska armia” newspaper, president of the “Army and Civil society” Foundation

Marin LESSENSKI

master in history from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, master in South East European studies from the Central European University – Budapest, programme director at the Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS) – Sofia

Ivan MILANOV

colonel, director of the “Defence Policy” Directorate at the Ministry of Defence

Krassimir NIKOLOV

Jean Monnet lecturer in European integration at the New Bulgarian University – Sofia and the Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”; secretary general of the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA) and president of the College of Europe Alumni Association in Bulgaria (ABSKEB)

 

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This volume is published within a project with the same name financed under the

“EUROPE 2003” PROGRAMME
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION DELEGATION
IN BULGARIA

 


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