Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS)
Abstract:
Unless we change and improve the quality of the international relations system (IRS) – the political toolbox for building a community with a shared future for mankind, for more effective global governance and for a more balanced global partnership for development, we shall miss the historic chance and still open window of opportunity to reach these lofty goals. How to shape such a better functioning IRS? What are its invariant characteristics in the second decade of the 21st century?
Topic:
International Relations, Governance, International Relations Theory, Strategic Competition, and Power
Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS)
Abstract:
The study includes three main interrelated issues, reflecting Bulgaria’s approaches and
interests in preserving and developing a particular set of partnerships in South East
Europe with the purpose of continuing the trend of the region’s modernisation in the
fields of economy, infrastructure, technology, society and politics: first, the balancing
between the special pragmatic relations of the United States with Bulgaria, and the EU
integration of the country and the region; second, reaching a higher quality of NATO and
EU memberships as a vehicle of pushing ahead the processes of regional emancipation,
and, third, the specific regional consequences of the country’s membership in NATO and
soon – in the EU