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Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS)
The Institute is an independent non-profit Bulgarian NGO, not linked to political parties, organisations or movements, as well as to religious or ideological denominations. Judicial person according to the Formal Register of Judicial Persons at Sofia City Court: Consignment 1496, Vol. 23, Ch.V, p. 121, based on Decision 1979 of Sofia City Court of 4 November 1994.
ISIS is listed among the 300 leading think-tanks world-wide in the 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008 editions of the NIRA’s World Directory of Think Tanks, Tokyo, Japan; among the 500 leading strategic studies centres by the IISS, London in 1998. ISIS is not linked to any political party, movement, organization, religious or ideological denomination and is part of the ISN, member of the Consortium of the Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes of the PfP countries, member of the Europe's World Journal Advisory Board. The Wisconsin University awarded the website of ISIS in October 1999 with the Scout Banner of Most Recommended Website in the Social Sciences. ISIS is member of the non-governmental Coalition for Reform of the Security Sector in Bulgaria and of the Bulgarian University Network for Security Studies. After 1994 ISIS became the meeting point and generator of conceptual thinking for civilian and military experts on security.
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Resources:
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February 01, 2023
Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine: Concept, Ideology, Objectives, Means, Consequences
By:
Plamen Pantev
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November 21, 2022
Procurement Data and Safeguards: Looking Historically and to the Future
By:
David Albright
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June 10, 2022
Diversifying Supply Chains: The Role of Development Assistance and Other Official Finance
By:
Conor M. Savoy, Sundar R. Ramanujam
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June 07, 2022
Concurrent Crises in the Horn of Africa
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Kurtzer Jacob D., Sierra Ballard, Hareem Fatima Abdullah
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May 11, 2022
Russian Military UAV Used in Ukraine Depends on Foreign Parts
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Spencer Faragasso
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March 21, 2022
Responsible Statecraft Correlates with UN Vote on Russian Invasion of Ukraine: An Application of the 2021 Peddling Peril Index
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David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Spencer Faragasso
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February 01, 2022
Shared Human Values and the Great Powers’ Competition: Trends in the Evolution of the International Relations System
By:
Plamen Pantev
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September 16, 2021
Iranian Illicit Procurement Scheme to Acquire Controlled Spectrometry Systems Busted
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Spencer Faragasso, Sarah Burkhard
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July 01, 2021
The Integration of the Western Balkans in NATO: a Logical Step in the Strengthening of the Regional Security Community in South East Europe
By:
Plamen Pantev
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February 01, 2020
Perceptions and Reflections of the Security Crisis in the Black Sea Region
By:
Plamen Pantev
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December 01, 2019
Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind: Is There a Blueprint?
By:
Plamen Pantev
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November 01, 2018
The Western Balkans at the End of the the 2010s – Beyond the Security Dilemma?
By:
Mira Kaneva
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September 01, 2018
Challenges to the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union: Black Sea Region (Crimea) and Syria
By:
Plamen Pantev
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September 01, 2017
The Inflated Yet Unsolvable North Korean Nuclear Threat
By:
Boyan Boyanov
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April 01, 2017
The Changing Balance of Power in the Age of Emerging Cyber Threats
By:
Ivo Tsekov
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November 01, 2016
The Inflated Yet Unsolvable North Korean Nuclear Threat
By:
Boyan Boyanov
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September 01, 2016
European Union Borders in the Face of Insecurities (2015-2016)
By:
Mira Kaneva
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January 01, 2014
The New Challenges to the EuroAmerican Relationship: Russia and the Middle East
By:
Guido Lenzi
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December 01, 2012
Media – International Relations Interaction Model
By:
Tsvetelina Yordanova
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September 01, 2012
The Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo - A Major Generator of Instability in the Region
By:
Petyo Valkov
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September 01, 2011
Initial Impact of the Democratic Protests in the Arab World for the Middle East Peace Process
By:
Boryana Aleksandrova
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November 01, 2005
The ‘Europeanisation’ of National Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
By:
Plamen Pantev
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June 01, 2005
Security Threats and Risks in South Caucasus: Perceptions From the Western Black Sea
By:
Plamen Pantev
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January 01, 2005
Bulgaria in NATO and the EU: Implications for the Regional Foreign and Security Policy of the Country
By:
Plamen Pantev
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August 01, 2004
Euro-Atlantic and Euro-Asiatic Concerns of an Enlarged Europe: a Bulgarian View
By:
Plamen Pantev
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December 01, 2003
Bulgaria’s Role and Prospects In The Black Sea Region: Implications Of Nato and Eu Enlargement
By:
Plamen Plantev
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April 01, 2003
Control, Cooperation, Expertise: Civilians and the Military in Bulgarian Defence Planning Experience
By:
Todor Tagarev
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November 01, 2002
The Balkans and the Caucasus: Conceptual Stepping-stones Towards the Formation of a New Single Geoeconomic, Geopolitical, and Geostrategic Region
By:
Plamen Pantev
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August 01, 2001
Regional Identity in the Post-Cold War Balkans
By:
Dimitar Bechev
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December 01, 2000
The Emergence of a New Geopolitical Region in Eurasia: The Volga-Urals Region and its Implications for Bulgarian Foreign and Security Policy
By:
Nicolay Pavlov, Plamen Pantev
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November 01, 2000
Security Risks and Instabilities in Southeastern Europe: Recommended Strategies to the EU in the Process of Differentiated Integration of the Region by the Union
By:
Plamen Pantev
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November 01, 1999
Peacekeeping and Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia: Broader Implications of the Regional Case
By:
Plamen Pantev
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October 27, 1999
India and Pakistan’s Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventory, end of 1998
By:
David Albright
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December 01, 1998
Reengineering the Defense Planning in Bulgaria
By:
Velizar Shalamanov, Todor Tagarev
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July 01, 1998
Prenegotiations: The Theory and How to Apply It to Balkan Issues
By:
Plamen Pantev
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May 20, 1998
Preventing a South Asian Arms Race
By:
Kevin O'Neill
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May 13, 1998
Fact Sheet: India and Pakistan—Current and Potential Nuclear Arsenals
By:
David Albright
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February 01, 1997
NATO Enlargement: Two Looks from Outside
By:
Laszlo Nagy, Valeri Ratchev
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January 01, 1997
The New National Security Environment and its Impact on the Civilic-Military Relations in Bulgaria
By:
Plamen Pantev
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November 01, 1996
Confidence and Security in the Balkans: The Role of Transparency in Defence Budgeting
By:
Tilcho K. Ivanov
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October 01, 1996
The Bulgarian Military Education at a Crossroads
By:
Todor Tagarev
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October 01, 1996
An International Methodology for Evaluation of Combat Capabilities of Military Systems: The Bulgarian Perspective of Greater Transparency and Confidence
By:
Volodya Kotsev
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September 01, 1996
Bulgaria and the European Union in the Process of Buliding a Common European Defence
By:
Plamen Pantev, Valeri Ratchev, Tilcho K. Ivanov
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July 01, 1995
Bulgaria and the Balkans in the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
By:
Plamen Pantev, Valeri Ratchev, Venelin Tsachevski
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January 01, 1995
Strengthening of the Balkan Civil Society: The Role of the NGOs in International Negotiations
By:
Plamen Pantev