CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Cisarova-Dimitrova, Gergana Dimitrova |
|---|---|
| Title | From Bright Light to Blackout: The Influence of the Europeanization Paradigm on Bulgarian Foreign Policy and Transport and Energy Infrastructure Policy |
| Summary | This dissertation presents a constructivist account of the dynamics of the europeanization process in Bulgaria. It focuses on the interpretive frameworks that structure policymakers' approach to the europeanization agenda, on the interplay between the rival policy discourses that shape these frameworks, and on the manner in which political actors employ the symbolic power of policy ideas in the process of political mobilization. I trace the mechanism through which the Europeanization approach that emerged as Bulgaria's dominant policy paradigm in the late 1990s has impacted on foreign policy and transport and energy infrastructure policy. I do this on the basis of in-depth case studies of two important crisis periods in Bulgarian policymaking: the domestic crisis that followed Bulgaria’s involvement in the Kosovo conflict and the crisis caused by Bulgaria’s resistance against EU nuclear safety conditionality that envisaged the premature decommissioning of four allegedly unsafe nuclear units at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/iphdig01.pdf |
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