Stefanos Katsikas holds a a PhD in International Relations from the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London, and works as a lecturer in the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a visiting lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham and a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

List of Tables, Figures and Maps; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Europeanization of Bulgarian Society: A Long-Lasting Political Project; Institution-Building, Political Culture and Identity in Bulgaria: The Challenge of ‘Europeanization’; Appropriations of Bulgarian Literature in the West: From Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Ionkov; Communism and Cold War in Bulgaria: The Absence of Europe?; Bulgarian Turks During the Transition Period; Women’s Identity and Social Policy in Bulgaria Before and After 1989; Legal Status and Migrant Economic Performance: The Case of Bulgarians in Spain and Greece; Bulgaria’s Path to EU Membership – and Beyond; Accession into the Euro-Atlantic Institutions: Effects on Bulgaria’s Balkan Policy (-ies); Mirroring Gazes: Europe, Nationalism and Change in the Field of Bulgarian Art and Culture; The Emergence of Regional Policy in Bulgaria and the Role of the EU; Epilogue; Appendix I. Tables, Figures and Maps; Notes; List of Contributors