(c) Gary Neill for the Chicago Booth Review <https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/who-paying-trade-war>

Analyses, OpEd, & Essays

Evidence-based essays and opinion pieces exploring international political economy, strategic competition, and economic statecraft.

Software dev

Open-source R packages for network analysis and blockmodeling. Plus a few creative hobby projects, from browser extensions to mods for some popular videogames

Papers reviewed

Evaluating manuscripts for scholarly journals.

Academic Publications

Scholarly publications leveraging network analysis to examine global politics and economics, as well as re-discover the humanities

Analyses, OpEd, & Essays

Click on a publication/outlet to visit my author page on their website

Geopolitical Monitor

Based in Toronto, Canada, the Geopolitical Monitor is a global publication providing a unique perspective on situations and events that have a substantive impact on political, military and economic affairs around the world.

2026—
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Modern Diplomacy

Modern Diplomacy's mission is to provide impartial qualitative and quantitative analysis assessing and evaluating complex international issues that are often outside the boundaries of mainstream Western media.


2021–2023

Global Risks Insights

GRI filtered out the noise to bring the most important insights of the day, in a concise, engaging format. Coverage goes beyond conventional notions of risk to look at energy security, great-power competition, and Under the Radar issues


2019–2021

L'AntiDiplomatico

Part of the Belt and Road News network, the publication is characterised by an unorthodox approach to complex issues in EU and US politics, as well as geopolitics in Eastern Europe , the MENA, and Latin America.


Feb.–Dec. 2025
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Lone Conservative

Lone Conservative was a leading publication providing political commentary and articles on pressing political issues and current events created for college students, by college students.


2021–2023

Others

Guest-posts and other occasional publications

Software development

FinNet

Providing classes, methods, and functions to deal with financial networks.

BlockmodelingGUI

An interface for the generalised blockmodeling of single-relation, one-mode networks.

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BMconcor

Implementation of the Roger Lafosse's work on CONCOR for multiple networks in R

More R programming

Other R packages/code-bases:- morestopwords: All Stop Words in One Place, CRAN.- SPB: Simple Progress Bars for Procedural Coding, on CRAN- ξ-distance, for the 2026 paper 'Quantification of dissimilarity between valued directed networks'.

Browser extension

This extension allows to highlight selected text on any webpage, export highlights to a JSON file and import highlights back for archiving/sharing. It can also can export highlights to a single standalone HTML file that contains all snippets with source-like formatting.

Modding videogames

Making mods for popular videogames. Mainly edits in C# and scripting in Papyrus, plus some more

Academic publications

Chapters

'Power Imbalances and the AI Act’s National Supervisory Authorities: Bulgaria as a Case Study of the Challenges for the EU’s Periphery'. In Aristovnik, Aleksander, Dejan Ravšelj, and Nina Tomaževič (eds), The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: Shaping Governance and Power Relations for a Liberal Future, 2024, Brussels: European Liberal Forum, pp. 120-142. ‹URL›

'Back to the future: Can Bulgaria become Europe’s Al hub?'. In Tomaževič, Nina, Dejan Ravšelj, and Aleksander Aristovnik (eds), Artificial Intelligence for human-centric society: The future is here, 2022, Brussels: European Liberal Forum, pp.  156-181. ‹URL›

'Back to the drawing board: Guidelines for rethinking Bulgaria’s tax competitivenes'. In Aristovnik, Ravšelj, and Tomaževič (eds), Policy briefs on tax competitiveness in the EU, 2022, Brussels: European Liberal Forum, p. 8. ‹URL›

'Back to the drawing board: Guidelines for rethinking Bulgaria’s tax competitivenes'. In Aristovnik, Ravšelj, and Tomaževič (eds), Tax competitiveness in the EU: A comparison between ‘new’ and ‘old’ member states, 2022, Brussels: European Liberal Forum, pp. 148-169. ‹URL›

In Mcgann, James (ed), Central Eastern Europe Think Thank Landscape: Issues, Characteristics, and Opportunities, 2021, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania:

  • 'CEE Regional Think Tank Mapping', pp. 123-178. ‹DOI›, ‹HAL›
  • 'Bosnia and Herzegovina', pp. 269-279. ‹DOI›
  • 'Bulgaria', pp. 269-279. ‹DOI›
  • 'Montenegro', pp. 269-279. ‹DOI›
  • 'North Macedonia', pp. 269-279. ‹DOI›

'Digital Civic Cultures in Post-Socialist South Eastern Europe: Lessons, Prospects and Obstacles After Thirty Years of Media (Il)Literacy in the Region'. In Vasileva, Despina (ed), Дигитална Гражданска Компетентност и Медийни Стереотипи [Digital Civic Competence and Media Stereotypes], 2021, Montana (BG): Polymona, pp. 95-108. ‹DOI›, ‹HAL›

  • Find the additional bibliography here

Papers in peer-reviewed journals

'A Network Approach to the Study of the Military–Industrial–Media Complex in Bulgaria'. Economic Thought, 12 December 2024, 25 (4): 442–463. https://doi.org/10.56497/etj2469402.

with Franc Mali and Aleš Žiberna, 'Revealing dynamic co-authorship structure in the social sciences through blockmodeling: the Slovenian case (1991–2020)'. Scientometrics, 09 August 2024, 129: 5635–5672, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05130-z.

'Scaling up Archival Text Analysis with the Blockmodeling of N-gram Networks: A Case Study of Bulgaria’s Representation in the “Osservatore Romano"'. Bulgarski ezik i literatura [Bulgarian Language and Literature], 3 June 2024, 66 (3): 325–333. https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2024-3-7.

'The EU and Geo-Economic Competition: The Role of Wealth Redistribution and Solidarity'. European Studies Review, 31 October 2023, 3 (18): 36–42. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10444487.

'Are sanctions for losers? A network study of trade sanctions'. The New Economist, June 2023, 17 (33): 4–11. https://doi.org/10.7251/NOEEN2333004T.

'Simplifying and Improving: Revisiting Bulgaria's Revenue Forecasting Models'. Economic Thought, 13 February 2023, 22 (6): 633–654. https://doi.org/10.56497/etj2267601.

with Argyro Lykaki, 'Ripensare il "nuovo approccio" alia condizionalita nei Balcani occidentali: lezioni dalla Croazia [Rethinking the "new approach" to conditionality in the Western Balkans: lessons from Croatia]'. European studies review, 22 November 2022, 3 (11): 18–23, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7415338.

'Forecasting Pandemic Tax Revenues in a Small, Open Economy: The Case of Bulgaria'. The New Economist, 25 May 2021, 15 (29): 18–28, https://doi.org/10.7251/NOEEN2129018T.

'The West Reads the South-East: The Theme of (in)gratitude in Catholic and Orthodox Political Theologies'. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization, 24 April 2021, 7 (2): 164–181, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6373014.


Monographies

with Maya Padeshka, '„Спомените“ на Царица Йоанна: Мемоар като емоционален пътеводител в бурно време от българската история [Queen Joanna's "Memoires": The Political Memoir as an Emotional Guide to a Turbulent Time in Bulgarian History]'. Working paper. University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), pp. 1-12, October 2024. ‹URL›

'Patterns of post-socialist unionism: Bulgarian labour unions after 1991.'. Working paper. Global Labour Research Centre at the Univeristy of York, 2023, pp. 1-15. ‹URL›

'Bulgarians’ fight against inflation: A case study in economics’ (poor) understanding of post-socialism'. 28 January 2022. Paris: LAMBERT Academic Publishing. ‹URL›

'Demythologising the “Russification” of Bulgarian Media’s Treatment of Civil Society: Analysis of the Transfer of Russian Mainstream News Media’s Cliches and Rhetoric on CSOs Upholding Human Rights and Environmentalism to Bulgaria'. 2021. Sofia: BlueLink Foundation. ‹URL›


Contributions in conference proceedings

'A network analysis of the military–industrial–media complex in Bulgaria'. In Banev, Guentcho and Maya Padeshka (eds). University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), pp. 1-12, October 2024.

'From Ethnic Conflict to Ethnic Peace ... and How not to Backslide: Lessons to Learn from Bulgaria's History of Inter-Ethnic Relations'. In Българският език, литература и култура: Пътища през мултикултурния свят [Bulgarian Language, Literature and Culture: Pathways through the Multicultural World], 2022, 267-287. Sofia: National publishing house for education and science „Az-buki“.

'There is such a people, but is there such a party? The case of Ima takăv narod between movement-party and personal party’'. In Измерения на свободата: исторически и културни проекции [Dimensions of freedom: historical and cultural projections], 2022, 187-203. Sofia: National publishing house for education and science „Az-buki“.

'The General and the Scientist Who Saved the Republic'. In Изолация и глобализация: в отговор на текущата световна ситуация [Isolation and globalization: In response to the current world situation], 2020. Sofia: National publishing house for education and science„Az-buki“.

 'Proactive Ally, Passive Partner Or Spoiler? Bulgarian Defence Policy From The Warsaw Pact To NATO – Analysis'. In Трансформации: Посветена на 30-та годишнина от падането на Берлинската Стена [Transformations: Dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall], 2020. Sofia: National publishing house for education and science„Az-buki“.


Edited volumes

with Maya Padeshka and Lashka Laskova (eds.), Българският език, литература и култура: Пътища през мултикултурния свят [Bulgarian Language, Literature and Culture: Pathways through the Multicultural World], 2022. Sofia: National publishing house for education and science „Az-buki“ ‹URL›

Conference, Talks, and Workshops

Other publications

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Eurasia Review


‘Proactive Ally, Passive Partner Or Spoiler? Bulgarian Defence Policy From The Warsaw Pact To NATO’. Eurasia Review. 11/12/2019. ‹URL›

‘Putinism And Its Legacy: Is Russia The First Post-Modern Dictatorship’. Eurasia Review. 25/04/2019. ‹URL›

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Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems


‘The Ontology and the Epistemology of Economics as a (Social) Science: Discussing a Lecture by Professor Clive Spash’. Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems (blog run by the OeAD Austria). 26 July 2021. ‹URL›

Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems


— 'The Euro is not even 25, but it needs more than a cosmetic makeover: Lessons for pro-EU policymakers from the debate on Bulgaria’s adoption of the Euro'. European Student Think Tank. 1 May 2024. ‹URL›

— 'The harmfulness of misplaced comparisons: A Euro-pragmatic approach to the Israel-Hamas and Russo-Ukrainian wars'. European Student Think Tank. 24 January 2024. ‹URL›

La Città Futura


— 'Le cause di Euromaidan ed il futuro dell’Ucraina [The causes of Euromaidan and the future of Ukraine]'. La Città Futura. Nov-Dec 2019. ‹Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9›

— 'Holodomor, la carestia ucraina del 1933 [Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of 1933]'. La Città Futura. Feb-Mar 2019. ‹Part 1, 2, 3, 4›

Articles reviewed for refereed journals

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