BULGARIA AND EUROPE: SHIFTING IDENTITIES
Edited by Stefanos Katsikas
‘Among the now extensive literature on Bulgaria’s European accession, this collection of essays, written by an international team of well established as well as young scholars, will shine with its careful social and political contextualization of the issues, its longue durée framework, and its genuine comparative effort.’
—Maria Todorova, Gutgsell Professor of History, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
‘Provides an excellent introduction to the country...the contributions range widely over and dig deeply into Bulgaria’s history, its current condition, its culture, and its relations with the Europe of which it is now an integral part.’
—Richard Crampton, Emeritus Professor of East European History and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
‘This volume offers an enthralling, perceptive and multifaceted analysis of Bulgaria’s “Return to Europe”.’
—Vesselin Dimitrov, Reader in East European Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science
This volume examines how Bulgarian historiography and literature over the centuries have created differing conceptions of Europe and, in the process, shaped the country’s own shifting identity. It also provides the broader cultural context and historical perspective required in order to understand the country’s EU accession process as well as its aftermath. This work ultimately addresses what has arguably been the key question facing Bulgaria in the post-Cold War period: ‘Are we European?’
Stefanos Katsikas is lecturer in the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London.
CONTENTS
List of Tables, Figures and Maps ix
Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
INTRODUCTION
The Europeanization of Bulgarian Society: A Long-Lasting Political Project
Stefanos Katsikas and Peter Siani-Davies
CHAPTER ONE
Institution-Building, Political Culture and Identity in Bulgaria: The Challenge of ‘Europeanization’
Wolfgang Höpken
CHAPTER TWO
Appropriations of Bulgarian Literature in the West: From Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Iovkov
Galin Tihanov
CHAPTER THREE
Communism and Cold War in Bulgaria: The Absence of Europe?
Marietta Stankova
CHAPTER FOUR
Bulgarian Turks During the Transition Period
Iskra Baeva and Evgenia Kalinova
CHAPTER FIVE
Women’s Identity and Social Policy in Bulgaria Before and After 1989
Tatyana Kotzeva
CHAPTER SIX
Legal Status and Migrant Economic Performance: The Case of Bulgarians in Spain and Greece
Eugenia Markova
CHAPTER SEVEN
Bulgaria’s Path to EU Membership – and Beyond
Dimitar Bechev
CHAPTER EIGHT
Accession into the Euro-Atlantic Institutions: Effects on Bulgaria’s Balkan Policy(-ies)
Stefanos Katsikas
CHAPTER NINE
Mirroring Gazes: Europe, Nationalism and Change in the Field of Bulgarian Art and Culture
Elitza Ranova
CHAPTER TEN
The Emergence of Regional Policy in Bulgaria and the Role of the EU
Vassilis Monastiriotis
EPILOGUE
Stefanos Katsikas
Appendix I. Tables, Figures and Maps
Notes
List of Contributors