National Perspectives on Russia: Bulgaria

Bozhilova, Diana (2013) National Perspectives on Russia: Bulgaria. In: National Perspectives on Russia Book National Perspectives on Russia European Foreign Policy in the Making? Routledge, London, pp. 187-197. ISBN 9780203495162

Abstract

We inhabit a space governed by over 1,700 international organizations, each seeking to stimulate and enhance co-operation and co-ordination amongst nation states to an ever greater extent (Union of International Associations 2001:2586). Arguably, the role of international organizations has never been more prominent in politics than it is today, as they have come to assume the role of principal over their once traditional embodiment of an agent (Finnemore 1993). Consequently, their impact on both international relations and domestic policy formation has profoundly increased since the end of the First World War. This is especially true of the European integration project. The unprecedented role the Commission played in the integration of states into the European Communities has had an important impact on the development of cognitive structures of domestic agents through the process of socialization amongst member countries (Finnemore 1993:50–51).This incidence further increased with the end of the Cold War. The ensuing power vacuum necessitated that the political geography of the European continent be redrawn once again. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the pull of both the European Union and NATO through the carrot-and-stick approach (Buller 2000) resulted in profound foreign policy reorientations in the COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) states of the former Soviet bloc.

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