RESEARCH FELLOW : DR DIMITAR BECHEV

Research interests: EU external policies, EU enlargement (Western Balkans, Turkey), European Neighbourhood Policy (Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Caucasus), the politics and modern history of South East and Central Europe.

DPhil thesis: Constructing South East Europe: The Politics of Balkan Regional Cooperation, 1995-2003 defended at the University of Oxford (October 2005) and supervised by Dr Kalypso Nicolaidis

examined by Prof Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford, and Dr Spyros Economides, LSE

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

• 'Whither the European Neighbourhood Policy? Scenarios for a Special Relationship', European View, Vol. 6 (Spring 2008) (with Kalypso Nicolaidis).

• 'The Discreet Charm of Nationalism', Foreign Policy (Bulgarian edition), April/May 2008. 

• 'Whither Bosnia? Dilemmas of State-Building in the Western Balkans, Turkish Policy Quarerly , Vol. 6, No. 4, 2008


• 'The Successful Laggards: Bulgaria and Romania's EU Accession,'  East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January 2008) (with Gergana Noutcheva). Abstract
  


• 'Integration without Accession: The EU's Special Relationship with the Countries in its Neighbourhood, Report to the European Parliament, Constitutional Affairs Committee, October 2007 (with Kalypso Nicolaidis).


• Co-editor, Focus Section On Transnationalism In Southeast Europe , Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4 (December 2006). '(Trans)Nationalism in Southeast Europe: Constructing, Transcending and Reinforcing Borders', Ibid (with Kerem Oktem).


• Constructing South East Europe: the Politics of Regional Identity in the Balkans
  RAMSES Series on Europe and the Mediterranean, Working Paper 1/06, March 2006.


• Carrots, Sticks and Norms: The EU and Regional Cooperation in South East Europe',  Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 8, No. 1 (April 2006).


• 'Turkey's EU Accession: The Stakes for Bulgaria' in Foreign Policy (Bulgarian edition), October-December 2005.


• Top-Down vs Bottom-Up Aspects of the EU Institution-Building Strategies in the Western Balkans
  SEESOX Occasional Paper No. 3/05, February 2005 (with Svetlozar Andreev).


• The Multiple Faces of Balkan Security
  European Balkan Observer, Belgrade Centre for European Integration & Vienna Institute for International Economics (WIIW), October 2004.


• 'Contested Borders, Contested Identity: The Case of Regionalism in South East Europe', Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 2004)


• 'Domino Effects and Historical Analogies: Interpreting Balkan Interstate Relations in the 1990s' in Alexander Fatic (ed), Security in Southeastern Europe (Belgrade: Management Centre, 2003).


• EU Conditionality in South-East Europe: Bringing Commitment to the Process,
  SEESOX policy paper, April 2003 (with Othon Anastasakis).


• Dot-Com Antagonisms?: The Macedonian Question on the Web
  Paper presented at the conference Macedonia-Macedonias: Changing Contexts in the Changing Balkans, SSEES, London, 14-16 June 2001.


• The Post-Cold War Balkans: The Issue of Regional Identity, Institute for Security and International Studies (Sofia), Research Report 12, 2001.