Tejada Bulgaria's Democratic Consolidation and the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant

The Unattainability of Closure
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-3-8382-5439-5
Verlag: ibidem
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 150 Seiten, E-Book, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Bulgaria's post-communist experience has been a fractured transition both politically and economically. How deeply has its democracy been consolidated? Has the residue of Bulgaria's communist era finally been sloughed off? Are there lingering threats to democratic stability that could delay Bulgaria's entry into the EU? And just how genuine a partner has the EU been in helping Bulgaria progress down its transition path? If there is one single issue that can help to illuminate these troubling questions, it is the long and controversial history of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. With Kozloduy producing perhaps as much as forty percent of Bulgaria's electricity all Bulgarians' fate was inevitably connected with the nuclearplant. That so important a question has not been sufficiently covered in western-language publications is partly due to the fact that information has been so hard to come by, and most researchers did not have the language qualifications necessary to pursue local investigations.Matthew Tejada has interviewed many of those in the Kozloduy saga and has read through archives and other sources not previously made known to western researchers. What he has to say tells us a great deal that is new about a neglected but vitally important issue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tejada, Matthew S

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Richard J. Crampton
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The history and problems of the KNPP to June 16, 1993
2. From the signing of the Grant Agreement to December 1999
3. From Bulgaria's accession invitation to the Closure of Units 1 and 2
Conclusion
Appendix I: Meeting Transcript of July 14 1995
Appendix II: Meeting Transcript of July 18 1996
Appendix III: Meeting Transcript of April 27-28 1998
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Tejada graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Texas in 2000. From 2000-2002 he was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria. From 2002-2004 he read for an MPhil degree in Russian and East European Studies at St. Antony's College Oxford. After finishing with distinction, Tejada was accepted to a doctoral program at the University of Oxford where he continues focusing on Bulgaria. He lives with his wife Denitsa in Oxford, Texas and Bulgaria.

Richard J. Crampton is Professor of East European History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall Oxford.