Author:
Warhola James W.,Boteva Orlina
Abstract
Although there is indisputable evidence of hostile perceptions, the gulf between ethnic groups has not yet caused any substantial violence between Turks and Bulgarians. Compared not only with former Yugoslavia but also with Romania, this must be upheld as a genuine success story in the endeavor to cope with ethnic tensions in post-Communist Eastern Europe. (Wolfgang Hoepken)
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,History,Geography, Planning and Development
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1. Ibid., pp. 111–115. According to Poulton: more recently, “[h]owever, there appears to be less problems between Pomaks and Bulgarians than the case with Turks and Bulgarians” (p. 115).
2. See in particular Eminov , op. cit. Also, Eminov Ali , Turkish and Other Minorities of Bulgaria (London: Routledge, 1997).
3. “Bulgarian State to Air News in Turkish,” AP Worldstream (COMTEX), 1 October 2000.
4. Perhaps in this case the distinctively different cultural-religious roots of each group may have been deliberately tolerated, perhaps even valued, by the other as a means of overcoming the larger threat to their common civilization. This is consistent with the findings of Jonathan Fox that the “clash of civilizations” thesis of Huntington Samuel (Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 22–29, and The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order [New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996]) that “civilizational conflicts constitute a minority of ethnic conflicts” and that “there is no evidence that the intensity of civilizational conflicts have risen relative to other types of ethnic conflicts since the end of the Cold War.” Jonathan Fox, “Ethnic Minorities and the Clash of Civilizations: A Quantitative Analysis of Huntington's Thesis,” British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2002, p. 415.
5. Annual Report on the State of the National Security of the Republic of Bulgaria in 1999 (Sofia, 1999), particularly Section 3, “Degree of Protection of the National Interests;” this document is available at www.government.bg/eng/oficial_docs/reports/National_Sec_Report.htm.
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