Building Hegemony in Ukraine and Bulgaria: Alliance Integration and Fighting Corruption in Europe

• In Event: Bulgarian National Security and the Fight against Corruption

Abstract

This study focuses on EU conditionality regarding rule of law institution as applied to Bulgaria and Ukraine as each state has sought integration into Euro-Atlantic structures. It focuses on the normative power of appeals to liberal nationalism in both cases. Liberal nationalism refers here to the association of national self-determination through institutionalization of liberal economic and political values in state administration.

Author

• Benedict Edward DeDominicis, Catholic U of Korea (South Korea)