In this study we constructed a scale that measures centrality, social, communal, and interdependent identifi cation, and investigated the distinction between these four different types of identifi cation with social ...

Focusing on recent discussions concerning conceptual issues of europeanization,the paper argues that there is a connection between the latter and the destabilization of the Bulgarian party system. In turn, such destabilization ...

The article focuses on the EU PHARE pre-accession programme for Civil Society Development in Bulgaria as a key precondition to develop a capacity in civil society to manage EU structural funds and be a partner and actor ...

Drawing from recent research on the contemporary social life in Bulgaria, the paper explicates how the historical peculiarity of the “transition” endues thecurrent social processes with qualitative specifi cities which are ...

This study dissects the changes to be initiated within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) of the European Union by the Treaty of Lisbon. The ...

This text (a part of a Doctoral Thesis development in progress) is focused on the recent challenges before philosophy, based on the necessity to synchronize our contemporary concepts with the latest outcomes in the studies ...

This article examines the application of the principle of subsidiarity out of a member state’s point of view. It observes the distinction in the nature of the different types of competences conferred to European Union ...