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European Stability Initiative (ESI) is a site where you can find reports on South Eastern Europe and European enlargement Policy. Recent projects are about the situation in Turkey and EU policy on Visa-Free Travel for the Western Balkan.
Recent Publications
- Roumen Avramov, Communal Capitalism: Reflections on Bulgarian Economic Past (Sofia: Centre for Liberal Strategies, 2007).
The book is a journey through the economic culture of the first Bulgarian capitalism, which took shape between the Liberation and the beginning of the 1940s. Marked by the communism and the following opening towards the world, this culture continues to be reborn in today’s economic forms. The whimsical links between yesterday and today, revealed throughout the text, lead to long-standing, resilient roots of the communal (etatist, clan, or collectivistic) principles, which has never stopped undermining the full-blooded competition in the economy. For more information see the Centre for Liberal Strategies website.