/View.info/ On March 9, 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sofia, Bulgaria, House of Europe, 124 G.S. Rakovski Street, a collection of the Institute of Balkan Studies “The Ukrainian Crisis and The Balkans”.
The collection is the first attempt in modern Bulgarian historiography for a comparative historical-political analysis of the specific features of the positions of the Balkan states towards the most serious European military-political crisis in the 21st century.
The Ukrainian crisis is examined in several consecutive and parallel dimensions through the prism of the geostrategic confrontation between Russia and the West – global and regional frameworks, historical-cultural relationships, energy-economic dependencies, foreign policy priorities and internal political confrontations.
The specific features of individual Balkan countries determine different emphases in each of the articles: the reflection of the Kosovo precedent as an argument for the annexation of Crimea on Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia; Romania’s new role for security in the Black Sea region; Russia’s influence on political life in Bulgaria; the internal division in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the effect of Russian counter-sanctions on the economies of Albania, Greece, Croatia and Montenegro; Turkey’s concern for the fate of the Crimean Tatars; the participation of Serbian volunteers in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine.
The information war between Russia and Ukraine on the territory of the Balkan countries is also analyzed, as well as the role of Brussels as a factor that places within certain frameworks the foreign policy behavior of the Balkan members of the EU.
Content
The Ukrainian crisis – the regional view, p. 7
Anatomy of the Ukrainian crisis, Mihail Stanchev, p. 19
The Ukrainian crisis in the geopolitical triangle Ankara-Kiev-Moscow, Boyko Marinkov, p. 42
Romania and the Ukrainian crisis: in search of a new strategic role, Aneta Mihailova, p.65
Keep up with Brussels. The Bulgarian reaction to the Ukrainian crisis, Plamen Dimitrov, p. 94
Croatia and the crisis in Ukraine, Irina Ognyanova, p.119
“Andonis Samaras may end up like Yanukovych, but Greece will not end up like Ukraine”, Yura Konstantinova, p. 149
The European idea in the shadow of Kosovo and “South Stream” (Serbia and the Ukrainian crisis), Biser Banchev, p. 165
The Ukrainian crisis and the Republic of Macedonia, Marijana Stamova, p.184
The similar positions of Albania and Kosovo on the Ukrainian crisis, Bobi Bobev, p. 209
Montenegro and the Ukrainian crisis, Biser Banchev, p. 230
APPLICATIONS
Selected Chronology of the Ukrainian Crisis, p. 246
Positions of the Balkan countries on specific cases related to the Ukrainian crisis, p. 250
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