How the international political system effects Turkey?s and Bulgaria?s foreign policies

After the Second World War international political structure changed and the cold war period started. In this 2 super power period the USA lead the West and USSR lead the Eastern Blocks and these blocks had conflict and political tension between them. We can say that during this time these 2 super powers had dominating control over their respective areas. While these 2 blocks were in conflict, Turkey chose to place itself with the Western block. Bulgaria however was in the Eastern block.After the end of the cold war the international political system began to change significantly. The USA became the only super power with therefore an extremely decisive role in the international arena. In the meantime the EEA had become a significant economic power and had changed it`s name to the EU and it`s status to a political unit. It now wanted to translate this economic power into political strength. Seeing the changes developing in world politics, the EU developed it`s own foreign and defence policy. Turkey, tried to speed up the merger process with the EU. Bulgaria took a new route and left their Eastern Block identity and pursued a new role within the EU.Turkey, who was already in the process of joining the EU and Bulgaria, then focused their aims in the same direction. These 2 neighbouring countries needed to develop a lawful relationship because of their aims with regard to the EU and NATO. After the cold war their relationship improved. Despite being both geographically and culturally close they had not previously a had very good social and economic relationship. Now this relationship started to improve faster than ever. After Bulgaria fully joined the EU, in January 2007, the presence of the EU in the Eastern Balkans was more significant. In this paper, the international political system is analysed and examined with effect to Bulgaria`s and Turkey`s foreign policies.Key Words:1) International Political System 2) Turkey3) Bulgaria 4) Foreign Policy