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dc.contributor.authorKamusella, Tomasz
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-15T10:30:06Z
dc.date.available2021-07-15T10:30:06Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-30
dc.identifier274866959
dc.identifierefe7e2f9-e70c-48a4-92d9-93bd03abe924
dc.identifier.citationKamusella , T 2021 , ' Bulgaria’s secret empire : an ultimatum to North Macedonia ' , Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies , no. 6 , pp. 155-212 . < https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/balkar/issue/63259/844561 >en
dc.identifier.issn2667-470X
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3484-8352/work/96489464
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23576
dc.description.abstractIn the summer of 2019, 30 years after the end of communism in Europe, Bulgaria began to forward the way of Skopje numerous onerous demands as a salient precondition for opening European Union (EU) accession negotiation talks with North Macedonia. All of these demands are dictated by ethnolinguistic nationalism that underlies the Bulgarian national master narrative. On 9 October 2019, the Bulgarian government officially adopted these demands in the form of an ultimatum, bar the term. Sofia did not have to deploy this ultimatum to stop the talks, since earlier Paris temporarily blocked the pending accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia. It appears that in the face of economic and political problems at home, Bulgarian politicians tend to use nationalism (and populism) to divert citizens' attention. The Bulgarian government seems to emulate the Kremlin's policy of the "Russian World," which on the basis of ethnolinguistic nationalism claims for Russia all the territories inhabited by Russian-speakers. After the fall of communism, a similar policy of "Bulgarian World" (Bılgarski sviat) has been pursued by Sofia from Moldova to North Macedonia and Albania, clamouring for recognizing all the Slavic-speakers in this wide area as members of the Bulgarian nation. These neoimperial ambitions are not conducive to stability in the Balkans and in the European Union.
dc.format.extent2408226
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Balkan and Black Sea Studiesen
dc.subjectNorth Macedoniaen
dc.subjectBulgariaen
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen
dc.subjectRussiaen
dc.subjectMoldovaen
dc.subjectRomaniaen
dc.subjectSerbiaen
dc.subjectMinoritiesen
dc.subjectLanguage politicsen
dc.subjectEU accessionen
dc.subjectImperialismen
dc.subjectIrredentismen
dc.subjectUltimatumen
dc.subjectEthnolinguistic nationalismen
dc.subjectDR Balkan Peninsulaen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccDRen
dc.titleBulgaria’s secret empire : an ultimatum to North Macedoniaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute for Transnational & Spatial Historyen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/balkar/issue/63259/844561en


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