Bulgarian National Security and the Fight against Corruption

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Bulgaria’s integration into Euro-Atlantic structures has incentivized Bulgarian judicial authority and national security institutions to reorient their enforcement aims and tasks. This difficulties in this collective reorientation are evident, for example, in Bulgaria have the hight Covid-19 mortality rate in Europe and the second highest in the world. Bulgaria occupies a position on the Black Sea EU-NATO frontier amidst the escalating Moscow vs. Euro-Atlantic conflict. It has increased pressures on the capacities of the governing institutions of the sovereign Bulgarian state to implement its obligations in the so-called rules-based international order.

Sub Unit

• Politics/Law

Chair

• Laura Olson Osterman, U of Colorado at Boulder

Papers

• Informal Sector and Corruption in Bulgaria - Didar Erdinç, American U Bulgaria (Bulgaria)

• Building Hegemony in Ukraine and Bulgaria: Alliance Integration and Fighting Corruption in Europe - Benedict Edward DeDominicis, Catholic U of Korea (South Korea)

• US Public Diplomacy Efforts in Bulgaria around the End of the Cold War, 1970s-1980s - Kristian Kafozoff

Discussant

• Yana Hashamova, Ohio State U

Session Manager

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