ISIS 1996 Annual Report 

Year Two

Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS), Sofia

Sofia,  January 1997

Director ISIS:  Dr. Plamen Pantev

RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND PERIODICALS

CONTRACTED CONSULTING AND NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP

SUPPORT FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY

BASIC INFRASTRUCTURAL SUPPORT

FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT

ACTIVE CONTRIBUTORS

Published Research Results:

"Problems of Civil-Military Relations in Bulgaria: Approaches to Improving the Civilian Monitoring of the Armed Forces" Plamen Pantev, Valeri Ratchev, Todor Tagarev
(Research Studies No. 2 - In Bulgarian) A Phare Democracy/ISIS Project

"Bulgaria and the European Union in the Process of Building a Common European Defence" Plamen Pantev, Valeri Ratchev, Tilcho Ivanov
(Research Studies No.3 - In Bulgarian and English).

"The Bulgarian Military Education at a Crossroads"  Todor Tagarev
(Research Reports No.4)

"An International Methodology for Evaluation of Combat Capabilities of Military Systems: The Bulgarian Perspective of Greater Transparency and Confidence"  Volodya Kotsev
(Research Reports No. 5)

"Confidence and Security in the Balkans: The Role of Transparency in Defence Budgeting" Tilcho K. Ivanov
(ResearchReports No. 6)

Contracted Consulting and National Partnership:

ISIS is cooperating with Bulgarian NGOs, research centres, academic organisations, universities and military educational institutions in the field of national security and foreign policy. ISIS and its individual associates continued the working relationships with the Commission for Foreign Policy of the Bulgarian Parliament, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Support for Young Researchers:

ISIS has lended again a helping hand to young researchers: PhD holders, writers of dissertations, MAs, students in their last courses. The purpose is to stimulate their creative interest in security and international studies and bridge them with the potential of Internet, especially with the ISN and the EINIRAS.

Courses and Seminars:

ISIS organized seven seminars on civil-military relations with students, cadets, high-ranking officers and journalists as part of a Phare Democracy/ISIS Project.

International Activity:

International networking is a highly valued asset by ISIS. We are grateful to our foreign and international partners for their understanding, support and cooperation. ISIS, on its part, preserves an adequate national academic competence so much needed for cooperation on security and foreign-political issues.

Basic Infrastructural Support:

ISIS is mostly grateful for its infrastructural building-up to:

• The Programme Committee on the Package of Measures to Strengthen the Research Basis at Swiss Universities in the Area of Security Policy and Related Measures of the Swiss Confederation (Dr. Theodore H. Winkler) and the Embassy of the Swiss Confederation in Sofia
• The Civil Society Programme of the Open Society Fund, Sofia

Functional Support:

ISIS is particularly grateful to the following organisations and persons, who contributed to the Institute's activity in 1996:

• The European Commission and the Delegation of the EC in Sofia (Ambassador Thomas C. O'Sullivan, Mrs. M. Koteva, Mr. S. Makarinov)
• Western European Union (Institute for Security Studies, Assembly, Council, Press Review Service, Mr. Guido Lenzi)
• NATO (Office of Information and Press, Office of the Special Adviser for Central and Eastern European Affairs to the Secretary General, Centralized Media Service, Liaison Office of Bulgaria at NATO)
• European Press Agency, Brussels (Mrs. Nina Bachkatov, Mr. Andrew Wilson)
• American Center, Sofia (Mr. Lawrence Plotkin)
• UBFA (Mr. Ognyan Lipovsky, Mrs. Regina Indgeva)
• EIBD at ONTMD of the MGU E-mail server (Dr. Volin Karagiozov)
• Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome
• UNIDIR, Geneva
• RED IRIS Complutense, Madrid
• AIIA, Luxenburg, and the Ministry of Defence of Austria
• RIIR, Brussels
• PM Institute, Brussels
• The Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany (Mr. Cornelius Ochmann)
• Centre for European Studies, Sofia (Dr. Ingrid Shikova)
• CSRC/RMA Sandhurst, The United Kingdom (Mrs. Anne Aldis)
• Press Service of the British Embassy in Sofia
• Mrs. Verginia Dimitrova, Sofia (Accountant)

Active Contributors:

In 1996 the following associates of ISIS contributed mostly to its activity:

• Mr. Valeri Ratchev
• Dr. Todor Tagarev
• Dr. Tilcho Ivanov
• Mr. Volodya Kotsev
• Dr. Rumen Dimitrov
• Dr. Velizar Shalamanov
• Mr. Vladimir Nachev
• Dr. Plamen Pantev

Director of ISIS: Dr. Plamen Pantev

2 January 1997
Sofia