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  • George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria continued its initiative for supporting talented young pupils in informatics from the High School Students Institute of Mathematics and Informatics by organizing a two-day training course on "Serious Gaming". The lectures were given by Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director of the Association. All 17 participants were certified and awarded a jubilee edition: "Bulgarian Pocket Encyclopedia", devoted to 140th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Varna, July 21-22, 2010, View more ...

  • At the invitation of NATO Public Diplomacy Division, Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director, George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria took part in "NATO Tour of Opinion Leaders to Allied Command Transformation", Brussels-Washington-Norfolk, May 30 - June 4, 2010.

 

  • NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Speech "Renewing the Transatlantic security community in the age of globalisation" at the Central Military Club, Organized by the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, Sofia, May 20, 2010.

  • NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Speech at the Bucharest University, May 7, 2010.

  • Comprehensive Approach to Security or Where is Going to Get the Security Sector Reform, inteview with Dr. Velizar Shalamanov - Chairman of George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria and Director Sponsor Account NATO and Nations, NATO Consultation Command and Control Agency (NC3A), Foreign Policy, April 30, 2010 (in Bulgarian).

  • Address by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Belgian Royal High Institute for Defence, April 26, 2010.
  • George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria supported the initiative of National High School "Sofia" for organizing young pupils' mathematics and physics competition in the framework of the Academy "Logos". Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director and Ms. Irena Nikolova - Resources Director, both from George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria awarded the participants. First place was given to the team of the "Academicians", second -  to the team of "Excellents", Sofia, April 20, 2010.
     
  • At the invitation of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director and Ms. Irena Nikolova - Resources Director, both from George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria gave a lecture on "Bulgarian Emergency Management System" during the Civil Security Community of Interest Event "Interagency Biological Restoration Demonstration - European Case Study", organized jointly with: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Department of Defense - USA, US Department of Homeland Security and Seattle Urban Area, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 29-31 March, 2010.
     
  • Round Table Discussion "Countering Corruption", Key Speakers: Mr. Iliya Nalbantov (George C. Marshall Associations - Bulgaria), Amb. Valery Ratchev (George C. Marshall Alumni Club - Bulgaria) and Mr. Thomas Peebles (Resident Legal Advisor at the US Embassy, Sofia); Organized by: George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria, George C. Marshall Alumni Club - Bulgaria with the support of the European Center for Security Studies "George C. Marshall", Sofia, Hilton hotel, March 15, 2010.
     
      
  • National Security Strategy - Round Table Discussion, Organized by: Association of the Officers from the Reserve "Atlantic", Foundation "National Security Research", George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria, Ministry of Defense; Information Ceter of the Ministry of Defense, Sofia, February 22, 2010.

 
 
 
 
  • George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria continued its initiative (started in 2009) in awarding young Bulgarian talented students on mathematics and informatics during the X  jubilee conference of the High School Students Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, January 15-17, 2010.

  • International Conference for NATO 60 years anniversary: Towards a New Transatlantic Strategy for the Wider Black Sea Region, Organized by CSEES with the support of: George C. Marshall European Institute for Security Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, Hotel Holiday Inn, November 30 - December 1, 2009, Read more ...

  

  • On July 7, 2009, the two Bulgarian associations that bear the name of George C. Marshall were introduced at a conference in Brussels that formally launched the process leading to the new Alliance’s Strategic Concept. http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-408A92C7-DF9AA833/natolive/news_56119.htm

  • The George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria took part in NATO ASI "The Role of the Security Sector Governance for the Democratic Transition of the Western Balkans", Plovdiv, Bulgaria, June 25 - July 3, 2009, Read more...

  

  • At the invitation of the US Embassy Marshall Center Director Dr. John Rose made a visit to Sofia, Bulgaria, April 27-29, 2009, Read more...

Publications

 

Security Focus and Security Sector Watch
 

  • The new issue of our bulletin (July, 2010) continues the Bulgarian debate about NATO's New Strategic Concept and extends this debate with some opinions within NATO's Comprehensive Approach, including: security and technological challenges, the Afghanistan mission problems and the Alliance's and some other possible international efforts for its solving. You will find articles from: Zlatogor Minchev, Iliya Nalbantov and Ivan Lidarev, Read more...

 

  • The new issue of our bulletin (November, 2009) continues the Bulgarian debate about NATO New Strategic Concept and extends this debate with some international opinions from Georgia and Uzbekistan. You will find articles from: Mihail Naydenov, Antoniya Shalamanova, Nino Kukhianidze and Oybek Makhmudov, Read more...

     

  • The new issue of our bulletin (September, 2009) is devoted to the NATO New Strategic Concept Debate starting and the role of Bulgaria. You will find articles from: Iliya Nalbantov, Veselin Petkov, Zornitsa Yahiya, Zlatogor Minchev, Georgi Dukov and Vladimir Shopov Read more...

 

  • The new jubilee issue of our bulletin (April, 2009) is devoted to the 10 years anniversary from the first Bulgarian Military Doctrine (in 1999), the NATO 60 years anniversary and the 5 years anniversary of the Bulgarian membership in NATO. You will find articles from: Velizar Shalamanov, Dobromir Totev, Iliya Nalbantov, Stefan Hadjitodorov, Nikolay Pavlov and Zlatogor Minchev, Read more...

Websites

  • Bulgarian Knowledge Portal on Operational Analysis and Computer Assisted eXercises, http://www.caxbg.com

Contact Information:
 
j.k. Drujba-2, Bl. 527-2-9
Sofia 1582, Bulgaria
Phone: (359) 2 973 5727
Fax: (359) 2 973-5727
E-mail:
office@gcmarshall.bg
No.37, Oborishte Str., Ap. 6
Sofia 1504, Bulgaria
Phone: +359 889456585 E-mail:
i.nalbantov@hotmail.com
Our Newsletter
Security Watch

 

  • Velizar Shalamanov, Zlatogor Minchev, Todor Tagarev, Irena Nikolova, Veselin Petkov, Nikolay Pavlov, Marija Dermenjieva and Alexander Tsankov, SECurity RESearch and Change Management in the Security Sector. The Bulgarian Experience 1999-2008(Sofia: Demetra Ltd, 2008, in Bulgarian).

     

     

     

  • Klaus Niemeyer, Velizar Shalamanov, Todor Tagarev,Tsvetomir Tsachev and Michele Rademaker,  NATO Operations Research Support to Force and Operations Planning in the New Security Environment - SfP 981149 Final Report(Sofia: Artgraf, 2008).