Democracy being challenged

Senior researcher at the University of South Carolina Dimitar Bechev says the problems facing the United States-led West also reflects on new Balkan countries, which are still in the transitary phase, almost thirty years after the fall of communism in Southeast Europe.

But you're right about democratic erosion in America has demoralizing effects on fragile democracies in the European periphery, which are not resistant to the slide into authoritarian system”, Bechev points out in an interview written for “Koha Ditore”.

Bechev legalises European studies and international relations at Sofia University. He also cooperates with the European Institute of Economic and Political Sciences in London.

Previously, it has headed the European Council for Foreign Relations office for Sofia, where it was a senior policy drafting official