Dimitar Bechev
Dimitar Bechev is Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre which is based in St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and also a Lecturer in International Relations at Worcester College, Oxford. He works on the enlargement and foreign policies of the EU as well as the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Mediterranean. His articles has appeared in the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, East European Politics and Societies, Foreign Policy (Bulgarian edition), Millennium, St Antony’s International Review and the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. He is the author of Mediterranean Frontiers: Borders, Conflict and Memory in a Transnational World (I.B. Tauris, with Kalypso Nicolaidis) and Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia (Scarecrosw Press), both published in 2009. Dimitar is currently working on a book on regional cooperation in South East Europe, to be published as part of St Antony's Series (Palgrave Macmillan) in 2010. He is also managing a research project on 'Agents of Change in the Mediterranean' sponsored by the RAMSES2 Consortium of Mediterranean Studies (6th Framework Programme) and carried out by St Antony's College and the Free University of Berlin. Dimitar Bechev has consulted various public bodies including the European Parliament, and is involved as a region head for Central and Eastern Europe in Oxford Analytica, a leading consulting firm. He holds a D.Phil (2005) and MSc (2001) in International Relations from the University of Oxford as well as Master’s degrees in Law and International Relations from Sofia University (Bulgaria). |

