The adoption of the EU sanctions on Russia provides a good case study to assess Bulgarian foreign policy under the conditions imposed by EU membership. This paper emphasizes the limits of both the foreign policy and Europeanization approaches when looking at national foreign policy and EU membership. It underlines the need to develop alternative approaches. These alternative approaches relate, in the first area, to the use of the concept of politicization of EU foreign policy; and in the second, to the conduct of a small country’s foreign policy within the EU framework. Although each of these approaches taken separately accounts poorly for the understanding of how EU membership affects the conduct of national foreign policy, each of them offers potentially interesting insights, without however being entirely conclusive.

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保加利亚的外交政策和欧盟对俄罗斯的制裁

欧盟对俄罗斯的制裁为评估保加利亚在欧盟成员国条件下的外交政策提供了一个很好的案例研究。本文在审视国家外交政策和欧盟成员资格时强调了外交政策和欧洲化方法的局限性。它强调需要开发替代方法。在第一个领域，这些替代方法与欧盟外交政策政治化概念的使用有关；其次，在欧盟框架内实施小国外交政策。尽管这些方法中的每一种都不能很好地理解欧盟成员资格如何影响国家外交政策的行为，但它们中的每一种都提供了潜在的有趣见解，但并不完全是结论性的。