ISIS 1999 Annual Report 

Year Five

Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS), Sofia

 

Sofia, 4 January 2000

 

Director ISIS:  Dr. Plamen Pantev

 


RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND PERIODICALS

 

CONTRACTED CONSULTING AND NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP

 

SUPPORT FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS

 

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS

 

MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

 

BASIC INFRASTRUCTURAL SUPPORT

 

FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT


RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND PERIODICALS

  1.  “Balkan Regional Profile:  The Security Situation and the Region-Building Evolution of South-Eastern Europe" (Plamen Pantev, Tatiana Houbenova-Delisivkova, Valeri Ratchev), 17 pp., April 1999.  Research Studies  – 7.  In English.  An ISIS/ISN Project.  Only an electronic version of the text.  It was followed by regular monthly electronic periodicals with the same title published by ISIS/ISN.

  2. "Black Sea Basin Regional Profile:  The Security Situation and the Region-Building Opportunities” (Plamen Pantev, Tatiana Houbenova-Delisivkova, Valeri Ratchev),  17 pp., April 1999.  Research Studies – 8.  In English.  An ISIS/ISN Project.  Only an electronic version of the text.  It was followed by regular quarterly electronic periodicals with the same title published by ISIS/ISN.

  3. "Peacekeeping and Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia:  Broader Implications of the Regional Case" (Plamen Pantev), 17 pp., November 1999.  Research Reports – 10.  In English.  An ISIS Project.

NOTE:  All publications of ISIS in English are part of the virtual library of the Institute on Internet in full text at:     http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isis

CONTRACTED CONSULTING AND NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP

ISIS works with and supports Bulgarian NGOs, academic organisations, universities and military educational institutions in the field of national and international security and foreign policy.  ISIS continued to work with the Delegation of the European Commission in Sofia and the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria.  ISIS consulted in a non-contractual cooperative manner various European and North American official and academic institutions on national, regional and security issues.

SUPPORT FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS

ISIS supported M. A. and Ph. D. dissertation  writers including by linking them with established and highly qualified foreign and international experts, seminars and courses.  Teaching the tools of Internet for international studies is part of our help.

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS

In 1999 ISIS representatives were invited to over 25 conferences, seminars or workshops as speakers, chairmen, respondents or participants.  20 of these events were international – both abroad and in Bulgaria.

MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

One press-conference of “Balkan” Press Agency on 30 March 1999 and several interviews by ISIS associates for the Bulgarian National TV and Radio, Radio “Free Europe”, Radio “Express”, various newspapers, etc. took place during the year.

BASIC INFRASTRUCTURAL SUPPORT

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

1.  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 (1995).

2.  The Civil Society Programme of the Open Society Fund, Sofia (1996).

FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT

ISIS is particularly grateful to the following organisations and persons, who contributed to the Institute's activity or information inflow in 1999:

1.  EC, Brussels and the Delegation of the EU in Sofia.

2.  WEU (Institute for Security Studies, Assembly, Press Review), Paris, Brussels.

3.  NATO (Office of Information and Press, Office of the Special Adviser for Central and Eastern European Affairs to the Secretary General, Centralized Media Service, PIMS), Brussels.

4.  Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Zürich , ISN (Prof. Dr. Kurt Spillmann, Prof. Dr. Andreas Wenger, Mr. Ulrich Gysel, etc.).

5.  American Center, Sofia.

6.  MGU – Internet server, Sofia.

7.  KWI, Essen, Germany.

8.  RUSI, London.

9.  European Press Agency, Brussels (Mrs. Nina Bachkatov, Mr. Andrew Wilson).

10.  CREES, The University of Birmingham, England.

11.  CSRC/RMA, Sandhurst, The United Kingdom.

12.  IAI, Roma.

13.  RIIR, Brussels.

14.  OSCE.

15.  The Atlantic Club, Sofia.

16. AIIR, Laxenberg.

17.  INION, Moscow.

18.  UNIDIR, Geneva.

 


In 1999 the following ISIS associates contributed mostly to its activity: 

Contact:

Dr. Plamen Pantev

Address: ISIS, 1618 Sofia,

Dr. Tatiana Houbenova-Delissivkova

P. O. Box 231, Bulgaria

Mr. Valeri Ratchev, M. A.

Phone/Fax: ++(359 - 2-) 551 828

Dr. Sc. Venelin Tsachevsky

E-Mail Address: isis@cserv.mgu.bg

Mr. Ivan Tsvetkov, M. A.

Dr. Dinko Dinkov

Information: 

Dr. Todor Tagarev

 ISIS had in 1999 12 voluntary associates:  7 Senior Researchers, 8 Ph.D. holders, 4 M. As. – 12 altogether.  ISIS is not linked to any political party, movement, organisation, religious or ideological denomination.  ISIS is part of the ISN and of EINIRAS electronic networks as well as co-founder and member of the Consortium of the Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes of the PfP countries.  This year ISIS was listed among the 300 leading think-tanks world-wide in the 1999 edition of the NIRA’s World Directory ofThink Tanks 1999, published by the National Institute for Research Advancement, Tokyo, Japan.  Founder & Director of ISIS:  Dr. Plamen Pantev.

 


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