The Manfred Wörner Fellowship 2001-2002 Final Report by Ionel Nicu Sava, Ph.D, University of Bucharest and the MW Euro-Atlantic Association of Romania WESTERN (NATO /PfP) ASSISTANCE TO BUILD DEMOCRATIC CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE. THE CASE OF BULGARIA, ROMANIA AND SLOVENIA In completing this Study I should mention first the support I received from Chris Donnelly, from NATO Headquarters, Jeffrey Simon from NDU in Washington DC and Mathias Schonburn from the Marshall Center in Germany. Their experience in dealing with civil-military relations helped me a lot in making this research. I am also much grateful to Plamen Pantev and Yantsislav Yanakiev from Bulgaria, Ljubitza Jelušič and Marian Malešič from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia whose data and research on similar topics I used for this Study. It also very much helped me the successive papers published by Tim Edmunds, Andrew Cottey and Anthony Foster with the TCMR project and by DCAF in Geneva. Laura Miller from UCLA gave me a valuable feedback on some of the conclusions of this Study. Bucharest, November 2002 CONTENTS