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NIKOLAY SLATINSKI

Professor
Former National Security Secretary of the President to the Republic of Bulgaria
Former Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security




Academic Background:

  • 2012-2021, Professor of National and International Security Studies.
  • 2002-2012, Associated Professor of National and International Security Studies.
  • Since 1986, Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Kharkiv State University, Kharkiv, Ukraine (in the former Soviet Union).
  • 1974-75: Degree studies at the University of Sofia, Mathematics and Mechanics Department.
  • 1975-79: Degree studies at the Kharkiv State University, Mathematics and Mechanics Department, Kharkiv, Ukraine (in the former Soviet Union).
  • Since 2021 - pensioner.


    • Specializations:

    • Certificate awarded by the Conference organized under the Harvard Program "Security in the Black Sea Region" (2006).
    • Certificate awarded by the Center for Civilian-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California for the participation at the Seminar Civil-Military Responses to Terrorism, Hungary (2005).
    • Certificate awarded by the George Marshall Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, for the participation at the Seminar Bulgaria: “The New War”. The Conflict in the 21st Century (2003).
    • Specialized official trip to the Foreign Office in United Kingdom on the problems of the civilian control of the intelligence (1994).
    • Course on the problems of civilian control of the armed forces, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (1994).


    Professional career:
      Professor in the area of national and international security:

  • 2012-2021
      Military Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
      University of National and International Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.


      Associated Professor in the area of national and international security:

  • 2007-2009
    Academy of the Ministry of the Interior, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • 2005-2012
    University of National and International Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • 2005-2012
    Military Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • 1998-2007
    Varna Free University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

  • 2002-2007
    National Security Secretary of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria.

  • 1995-1999
    Executive Director of the Democracy and Security Foundation.
  • 1995-1997
    NATO Grant Holder on the theme Parliament and Civilian Control over the Bulgarian Armed Forces and National Security Policy.
  • 1992-1994
    Chairman of the National Security Committee of the Bulgarian Parliament, Head of the Bulgarian delegations to the Assemblies of NATO and the WEU.
  • 1990-1994
    Member of Parliament, Pernik City, Parliamentary Group of Union of Democratic Forces.
  • 1994
    Special Rapporteur to the Defence and Security Committee of the North Atlantic Assembly in Oslo. A report entitled "Bulgarian Security: Regional and European Dimensions".
  • 1993
    Special Rapporteur to the Defence and Security Committee of the North Atlantic Assembly in Copenhagen. A report entitled "Euro-Atlantic Security: One Viewpoint from Bulgaria".
  • 1992
    Symposium Participant at the symposium of the Assembly of the Western European Union A New Security Order in Europe in Berlin. A report entitled "European Security and Observance of Democratic Principles".
  • 1986-1989
    Programmer, expert in automated engineering control systems, Research Fellow at the Institute of Heavy Machine-Building, Radomir, Bulgaria.
  • 1979-1982
    Designer and programmer at the Institute of Heavy Machine-Building, Radomir, Bulgaria.


    • Project Participations :

    • Security in Central and Eastern Europe – Problems-Perceptions-Policies (Austrian Institute for International Affairs).
    • White Paper on Civilian Control over Armed Forces (Democracy Commission, USA).
    • Democratic Society and Civilian Control of the National Security System (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung).
    • Be-Polar Model and National Security (Open Society Foundation, Sofia).
    • National Security in Bulgaria, the European Integration Process of Bulgaria and the Yung Bulgarians’ Perception of the Euro-Atlantic Values (Development of Civilian Society Foundation, Sofia).
    • PROGRES – Project Program on European Security (Centre for European Security Studies, Groningen, Netherlands).
  • Geneva Centre for the Democrtic Control of Armed Forces, “Building Integrity and Reducing Coruption in Defence. A Compendium of Best Practices”, 2010.
  • Stockholm, CRISMART, “Managing Political Crises in Bulgaria: Pragmatism and Procrastination”, 2005.


    • Participation at Conferences:

    • Participations in more than 60 national and international scientific conferences (more than 30 of them international).


    Scientific Publications:

    • More than 90 scientific works published in periodicals (8 of them in foreign scientific reviews).


    Books (in Bulgarian):

    • Risk - the New Name of Security , 2019.
    • Security - The Life of the Network , 2014.
    • Security - Substance, Meaning, Content , 2012.
    • Five Levels of Security, 2011.
    • Iraq. How I Advised the President, 2008.
    • To the Attention of Mr. President, 2002-2006. Iztok-Zapad, Sofia, 2008.
    • National Security: Aspects, Analyses, Alternatives, Balgarska Knizhintsa, Sofia, 2004.
    • Dimentions of Security, Paradigma, Sofia, 2000.
    • The Expectation as a Labyrinth, Videnov & Sin, Sofia, 1993.