Hrushetskyi B. Mechanism of Formation and Main Directions of the Foreign Policy of Bulgaria (1989-2013).

The object is the foreign policy of Bulgaria. The aim is the comprehensive study of foreign policy mechanism and its role in the formation and implementation of the main directions of the foreign policy of Bulgaria in 1989-2013. The methods are system, synergy, the world-system, multi-disciplinary approaches; historical and logical, historical-genetic, quantitative statistical methods. The thesis represents the comprehensive study of mechanism of formation and main directions of the foreign policy of Bulgaria in 1989-2013. Theoretical approaches to study of Bulgarian foreign policy, level of it scientific elaboration have been analyzed. Place of Bulgaria as a small state in the international relations system on the global and regional levels, conceptual and doctrinal fundamentals of analysis of the national interests of state have been examined. Main elements (constitutional and having no constitutional powers in foreign-policy process) of mechanism of formation of state's foreign policy as a system and ties between them have been revealed. On the basis of the author's methods the main directions of foreign policy of Bulgaria have been determined and dynamics of their priority during 1989-2013 have been retraced. Application spheres are foreign policy, training courses.