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• On December 6,2012 at Academic Hall N1 G.S. Racovsky War College Sofia, the George C. Marshall team took part at the Conference - "GOOD GOVERNANCE AND MACROECONOMIC APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT" - download
• Deputy Minister of Defense Bulgaria Valentin Radev - download presentation
• OPENING REMARKS - Rebecca Dunham, Counselor for Political and Economic Affairs - The USA Embassy in Bulgaria - download

* Lidia Velkova: “ The economics security and macroeconomics role of the state” - download

* Dr. Treddenick, ECSS “George C. Marshall”, “The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of European Defense” - download

* Todor Tagarev, Good Governance in the Security Sector as a Prerequisite for Security and Defence Integration - download

* Dobri Totev, director Planning, Programming and Budgeting Directorate – MoD: "Innovative methods of defence resource management in times of austerity"- download

* Krassen Stanchev: “ Macro development incentives crisis” - download

* Vyara Jekova, G.S. Racovsky War College: “Management for the formation of economic sustainability in times of austerity”- download

* Georgi Tzvetkov, G.S. Racovsky War College: “Resource defense capability indicators. Bulgarian Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective” - download

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• On June 21,2012 - international conference "ENERGY SECURITY - NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND EURO-ATLANTIC FRAMEWORKS" download ...
• Amb. Petar Popchev – advisor of the Bulgarian Minister of economy, energy and tourism – “Southern corridor’s impact on energy security, infrastructure development and market integration in South-Eastern Europe” download ...
• Petro BURKOVSKYI –"Ukraine's diversification efforts and regional challenges to the sustainable national energy security", Marshall center Alumni Associations for South East Europe Security download ...
• Dr. Aviezer Tucker, Assistant Director, The Energy Institute, The University of Texas, Austin – “Hydraulic Fracturing in Europe: Boon or Bane?” download ...
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• RESULTS AFTER THE DEBATES DURING THE CONFERENCE
  "ENERGY SECURITY – NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND EURO-ATLANTIC FRAMEWORKS" download ...
• On November 30,2011 - ROUNDTABLE: "NETWORK SOCIETY FOR A NEW PUBLIC CONSENS" download ...
• On May 10, 2011 a General Assembly meeting of the "George C. Marshall" Alumni Association Club - Bulgaria took place at the Central Military Club, Sofia. During the meeting a new Chairman and Management Council of the association have been approved, Read more ...

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director of George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria and Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Center Director took part at NATO ARW "COUNTER TERRORISM IN CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE COMMUNITIES", Antalya, Turkey, May 09-10, 2011, Read more...

• Interview with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director of George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria and Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Center Director on the occasion of the experimental e-voting initiative, LiveNews, Sofia, May 05, 2011 (in Bulgarian), Read more...

• In celebration of the 7-th years anniversary of Bulgarian membership in NATO, George C. Marshall Associations - Bulgaria awarded young Bulgarian talented students on mathematics and informatics participants in XL  jubilee conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, Borovets, Bulgaria, April 7, 2011.

• At the initiative of the Association George C. Marshall – Bulgaria, and in cooperation with the George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies – Germany, a roundtable discussion: “National security – the strategic range of criminality” will be held on April 5, 2011, from 09.30 to 16.00 hours, in the Central Military Club – Sofia, Invitation, Programme.

• On 29 March, 2011  at the Central Military Club, Sofia the George C. Marshall team took part at the National Conference 'Smart Defence: national defence policy and investments in the second half of 21 century' devoted to the 7 years anniversary - Bulgaria in NATO. The event was organized jointly by the Association of the Officers in the Reserve 'Atlantic' and the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence, Read more...

• Bulgarian National Assembly approved the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia, February 25, 2011, Read more ...

• Social Networks and Cyber Terrorism - interview with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director of George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria and Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Center Director on the occasion of the National conference NATO's Policy on Cyber Defense, Sofia December 12, 2010 (in Bulgarian), Read more...

• A round table discussion "The draft of National Security Strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria in the context of good governance", organized by "George C. Marshall Associations" - Bulgaria, Sofia, Central Military Club, December 8, 2010, Invitation, Programme.

• A round table discussion "The draft of National Security Strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria in the context of good governance", organized by "George C. Marshall Associations" - Bulgaria, Sofia, National Assembly, Hall Iztok, December 7, 2010, Read more ...

• On December 6, 2010, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmish-Partenkichen, Germany get a new director - Lt. Gen. Keith W. Dayton, who retires from the U.S. Army Dec. 1, takes over from Dr. John P. Rose who served as Marshall Center Director since 2002, Read more...

• After the Lisbon Summit of Heads of State and Government, the New NATO Strategic Concept was officially announced, November 19 - 20, 2010, Read more...

• IT Technologies in New NATO Strategic Concept - interview with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director of George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria, on the occasion of NATO Lisbon Summit, November 19, 2010 (in Bulgarian), Read more...

• At the invitation of AFCEA, Chapter Varna, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director of George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria took part and gave a talk on "New Cyber Security Challenges" at the conference "C4ISR in South-East Europe - Problems and Solutions". The event was organized in occasion of AFCEA, Chapter Varna 10th anniversary under the Auspices of the Minister of Defence, Republic of Bulgaria, Plovdiv, October 12, 2010, Read more...

• Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels, October 8, 2010, Read more...

• At the invitation of the Association of the Officers in the Reserve - Atlantic, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatogor Minchev - IT Director of George C. Marshall Association - Bulgaria took part and gave a talk on "New Threats in Cyber Security" during the Round Table Discussion "Bulgarian Cyber Security Status and Problems". The event was organized by: Association of the Officers in the Reserve - Atlantic, Association of Communication and Information Specialists and Ministry of Defence, Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia, Central Military Club, September 28, 2010, View more...

  

Publications

Security Focus and Security Sector Watch
 

• This new issue of our buletin (July, 2011) of the Security Focus and Security Sector Watch Newsletter opens the Bulgarian discussion for missile defense shield building and the political and geostrategic aspects of the theme. Additionally, we are also continuing our initiative with young authors invitation for giving their opinion on live questions from the security area. The current issue is hosting the Students' Club of Political Sciences at the Sofia University 'Kliment Ohridski' and the Libya crisis problem. As usual we have also noted some events related to the security sector governance, Read more...

   

• The new issue of our buletin (February, 2011) opens the Bulgarian debate related to the different aspects of the modernization and rearmerment of Bulgarian Armed Forces taking into account the security sector governance issues and some recent documents bound to the process: the White Book of Defence, the Draft of the National Security Strategy of Bulgaria and the Republic of Bulgaria’s Armed Forces’ Development Plan. All these documents have been accepted in accordance with the official approval of the New NATO's Strategic Concept for the next 10 years time horizon up to 2020. You will find articles from: Zlatogor Minchev, Iliya Nalbantov, Venelin Georgiev, Petar Mollov, Borislava Bratanova and Georgi Tsvetkov, Read more...

• 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...

Websites

• Bulgarian Knowledge Portal on Operational Analysis and Computer Assisted eXercises, View more...

• Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Center, Read more...