title: Rethinking Bulgaria’s Euro-Atlantic Choice
abstract: The article aims at rethinking Bulgaria's Euro-Atlantic choice made by our country in the first decade of the post-socialist transformation.Tracing back in time the origins and evolution of the concept of Bulgaria's accession to the Western integration space, the author highlights events that have formed the broad outlines of the process while searching for possible explanations of why things have gone wrong in the long run.Against this background, the issue of the expedience of the country's ge